Anne Cathrine Collett (19 February 1768 – 27 January 1846), was a Norwegian-Danish landowner and one of the wealthiest women of Denmark in her time. Collett was born into the wealthy Collett family of timber merchants in Christiania (now Oslo). Her parents were Peter Collett (1740–86) of

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and Maren Kirstine Holmboe (1745–68). She married

Peter Nicolaj Arbo Peter Nicolaj Arbo (16 November 1768 – 12 September 1827) was a Norwegian-Danish timber trader and landowner. He owned the estates Aldershvile, Lundbygård and Oremandsgaard in Denmark and Gulskogen Manor in Norway. Early life Arbo was b ...

who subsequently entered the family's company Collett & Søn. The couple moved to

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where they lived in the Peschier House at

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12. He acquired the country house Aldershvile north of Copenhagen and the manors of Lundbygård and Oremandsgaard at

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. After his death in 1827, she ran the estate with the assistance of count Knuth. Collet died on 27 January 1846. Having no children, she left her estate to her nephews Bernt Anker Collet and Peter Collet (1820-1860).

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