Ann Allaway Cowmeadow b:26th June 1839 (General)

by HarryBrook , Tuesday, May 01, 2018, 19:23 (2391 days ago) @ probinson

Here is a suggestion which may be considered either plausible or far-fetched!
Ann/Annie Allaway or Cowmeadow, born Cinderford in 1839, cannot be found unmarried in the 1861 census, and there is apparently no convincing marriage record for her.
In the 1871 census, at Chetwynd Road, St. Pancras, London were Henry J. Collier, head, 26, carpenter, born Glos., Stonehouse, and Ann Collier, wife, 33, born Glos., Cinderford.
Henry J. Collier was Henry Joseph Collier, birth actually registered in Stroud in 1848.
There appears to be no marriage registration for a Henry J. or Henry Joseph Collier between 1851 and 1871.
Henry J. and Ann Collier can be found at various addresses in St. Pancras through to the 1901 census.
They had two daughters - Minnie Elizabeth born about 1874, and Nellie Sarah Ann born about 1877.
The probable death registration of Ann Collier was 1905, quarter 3, in the Pancras, London District, age given as 67 years.
Henry Joseph Collier died on 9 May 1906 in London. A probate record exists. Admin was granted to his daughter, Nellie Sarah Ann Moody (wife of Ernest James Moody).
So to sum up, Ann/Annie Allaway or Cowmeadow was in Stroud in 1851; Henry Joseph Collier was from nearby Stonehouse; there is no apparent marriage record for Henry Joseph Collier; Ann Collier gave her birthplace as Cinderford in all censuses; her given birth year is one year out, but Henry J. Collier's is also not accurately given in censuses. No family trees on ancestry can give Ann Collier's maiden surname.
There is no way of proving this online, only the birth certificate of one of the children would give the mother's maiden surname.
This may be considered very speculative but as no one has posted anything up I put this forward for discussion and scrutiny (shooting down in other words). It may be wrong but tantalising all the same?