Hello
I have been researching the male family line of a friend and run into a big WALL! Her great great grandfather Henry John Peacock (1848 -1895) married this lady at Holy Trinity, Tulse Hill on 20 Aug 1871. Both of this parish. Mary Annie daughter of James Collman a coachman. I can find no trace of her before this and no trace of her in Tulse Hill area in 1871 census. She gives her age at marriage as 22, as does her husband. Consistently on censuses she says she was born Knightsbridge and her age varies between 1849 - 1852. She dies in West Ham in Dec quarter 1925.
I have found a James Colman/Coleman, coachman living with Elizabeth Hoskins Ward (married William Escott 12 Nov 1854 Trinity Church Marylebone) William is living with and married to Charlotte Susan Elger from 1868. James is clearly with Elizabeth in censuses from 1871 and I have happily traced his parentage from Lowestoft area before that. However I can't find him before 1871 (maybe in 1841 when he is single and in Norfolk). Is this the correct James I wonder or am I spinning along a false track?
There is a baptism of a Mary Ann Colman in 1853 along with brother James, giving her birth date as 1 September 1850 to a James Colman and Mary Ann, this James is a saddler. I can't find this family in any censuses.
Does anyone have any ideas, Please?