http://www.forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?mode=thread&id=26590

Jim Ashton

I "understand" that this Hannah is the daughter of James C and Mary Tingle - being the Moorwood ( Lydbrook) Cowmeadow line.

http://www.forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=15988

http://www.forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=1646 - however this James was born about 1786 and is not the Ruardean james ( at least as far as I and others can tell )

Year: 1788
Month: Jul
Day: 27
Parents_Surname: COWMEADOW
Child_Forenames: James
Fathers_Forenames: William
Mothers_Forenames: Elizabeth
Mothers_Surname:
Residence:
Occupation:
Officiating_Minister: J H BEESTON - minister
Event: Baptism
Memoranda:
Notes:
Register_Reference: P275 IN 1/6
Page_Number: 8
Parish_Chapel: Ruardean

Year: 1813
Month: Nov
Day: 14
Parents_Surname: COWMEADOW
Child_Forenames: Mary Anne
Fathers_Forenames: James
Mothers_Forenames: Eliz[abet]h
Mothers_Surname:
Residence: Redbrook
Occupation: Labourer
Officiating_Minister: P M Procter
Event: Baptism
Memoranda:
Notes:
Register_Reference: P227 IN 1/6
Page_Number: 6
Parish_Chapel: Newland

Year: 1815
Month: Jul
Day: 20
Parents_Surname: COWMEADOW
Child_Forenames: Mary Ann
Fathers_Forenames: James
Mothers_Forenames: Elizabeth
Mothers_Surname:
Residence: Red-brook[sic]
Occupation: Labourer
Officiating_Minister: P M Procter
Event: Baptism
Memoranda:
Notes:
Register_Reference: P227 IN 1/6
Page_Number: 17
Parish_Chapel: Newland

Year 1815
Month Jul
Day 23
Parents Surname COWMEADOW
Child Forenames Hannah
Fathers Forenames James
Mothers Forenames Elizabeth
Mothers Surname
Residence Red-brook[sic]
Occupation Labourer
Officiating Minister P M Procter
Event Baptism
Memoranda
Notes
Register Reference P227 IN 1/6
Page Number 18
Parish Chapel Newland

Year: 1816
Month: Jan
Day: 1
Surname: COWMEADOW
Forenames: James
Residence: Parish of Newland in Glocestershire
Age_at_death: about 28
Officiating_Minister: J Seager Curate
Event: Burial
Cause_of_death:
Memoranda:
Notes:
Register_Reference: from 1813
Page_No: 8
Parish_Chapel: English Bicknor

I decend from MARY ANN COWMEADOW bn 1815 in Redbrook parents were James COWMEADOW & Elizabeth (maybe Williams?). Mary Ann had a sister Hannah also bn Redbrook 1815. I believe this could be the Hannah that married Barzila MEEK, But there is also a death for a Hannah COWMEADOW aged 10 mths in 1816 residence given as "the parish of Newland".

Mary Ann COWMEADOW went on to marry Joseph NICHOLLS in 1836 in Walsall Staffs. Mary went on in every census giving Redbrook as her birthplace. Joseph NICHOLLS occupation throughout his life was "a tinman" (and as i have seen Redbrook had a Tinworks, so possibly he met her while working in the area?)

Now it looks like James COWMEADOW must have died (the one buried in English Bicknor in 1816 ? or too far away ?)The widow Elizabeth COWMEADOW then marries George ROBINS/ROBBINS in 1817 at Newland, going on to have Thomas 1818, William 1822, & Ann 1830.

There is a marriage of a Jacob ROBINS where Hannah MEEK is the witness - coincidence ? But the previous threads don't match Hannah COWMEADOW who married Barzila MEEK to the same parents of my Mary Ann & Hannah.

Have I got this family in a muddle, could someone give me a helping hand.

Jayne