Johannah COLLINS

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THIS IS A REALLY TOUGH ONE

MY GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER WAS JOHN COLLINS. HE WAS BORN IN 1864 IN TOXTETH PARK TO JOHANNAH AND JOHN. THERE IS SOME DISCREPANCIES ON HIS BIRTH CERTIFICATE AND BAPTISM AS TO WETHER HIS NAME WAS COLLINS OR O'NEILL

I SUSPECT THAT HIS FATHER WAS JOHN O NEILL AND HIS MOTHER WAS JOHANNAH COLLINS, AND THAT DAD WAS OUT OF THE PICTURE VERY EARLY ON, SO MUM GAVE HIM HER NAME.

HE AND MUM LIVED IN GREENWICH THROUGHOUT HIS CHILDHOOD.

A CENSUS RETURN (1861) SHOWS A JOHANNAH COLLINS LIVING WITH HER PARENTS IN LONDON, AND HAVING BEEN BORN IN CORK. HER FATHER WAS PATRICK COLLINS AND HER ELDEST BROTHER WAS BARTHOLOMEW.

ANYONE WITH ANY KNOWLEDGE I WOULD BE GREATFUL