Birth: October-December 1846 Hungry Hill, Hale, Surrey, UK, UK
Father: William Adams 1818-1886
Mother: Hannah Vinden (Hindes, Vindon, Winden) 1811-1891
Christening: 13 December 1846 St John the Evangelist, Hale, Surrey, UK
Marriage: 10 November 1867 St John the Evangelist, Lambeth, Waterloo, Surrey, UK
Husband: John Collins c1845-b1891
Death: 6 November 1928 28 Oseney Crescent, St Pancras, London, UK
Alice Jane Collins [Walker] 1869
John William Collins 1880-1941
Birth of Jane Adams in FreeBMD in October-December 1846 in Farnham (4 167).
Christening of Jane Adams in the IGI on 13 December 1846 in Hale, Surrey, parents William and Hannah Adams. The same information is in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975.
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1912 for Jane Adams on 13 December 1846 at Hale, St John the Evangelist, Farnham, parents William and Hannah Adams. "Page 11 Baptisms in the Parish of [blank] in the County of [blank] in the Year 18[blank] 1846 Dec 13 No. 85 Jane, parents William, a Shoemaker, and Hannah Adams of Hungry Hill".
Her sister was born in St George the Martyr in 1849.
In the 1851 census as Jane Adams aged 4, born in Farnham, Surrey, and living with her parents (William and Hannah), brother (George), and four sisters (Eliza, Elizabeth, Emma and Sarah) at 2 Bedford Court, St George the Martyr, Middlesex. Four other families lived at this address.
In the 1861 census as Jane Adams aged 14, born in Farnham, Surrey, a servant (crossed out?) and living with her parents (William and Hannah), and an orphan (Emily Halfacre aged 9 and born in St George the Martyr, Middlesex) at 9 Bedford Court, St George the Martyr, Holborn, Middlesex.
She was a witness at her sister Sarah's wedding at St John the Evangelist, Lambeth in 1863.
Marriage of Jane Adams and John Collins in FreeBMD in October-December 1867 in Lambeth (1d 490).
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 for Jane Adams, father William Adams, and John Collins, father John Collins, on 10 November 1867 at Lambeth St John the Evangelist. "1867 Marriage solemnized at St John Church in the district parish of St John Waterloo in the County of Surrey no. 203 Nov 10 1867 John Collins of full age, a bachelor and cellarman of William Street, father John Collins, a coachman, and Jane Adams of full age, a spinster of Waterloo Road, father William Adams, a boot maker, married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church after banns in the presence of Samuel Crane and Elizabeth Ann Crane".
Her daughter was born in Museum Street, Bloomsbury in 1869.
In the 1871 census as Jane Collins aged 23, born in Farnham, Surrey, and living with her husband (John) and daughter (Alice) at 9 Bedford Court, St George the Martyr, London. Her parents were living at the same address.
Her son was born at 9 Bedford Court in 1880.
In the 1881 census as Jane Collins aged 33, born in Farnham, Surrey, married but not living with her husband, no stated employment and living with her parents (William and Hannah), son (John W), daughter (Alice J) and a visitor (Ellen Hays aged 36, born in Lee, no married status and no stated employment) at 9 Bedford Court, St George the Martyr, London.
In the 1891 census as Jane Collins aged 42, born in Jarnham (sic - Farnham), Surrey, widowed, a laundress, and living with her son (John), daughter (Alice), mother (Hannah Adam), in two rooms and a lodger (Robert Sheppard aged 32, born in Exmouth, Devon, single and a carman) in one room at 9 Bedford Court, St Andrew and St George, London.
In the 1901 census as Jane Collins aged 53, born in Farnham, Surrey, widowed, charing, and living with a visitor (Harriet Terry aged 30, born in Nuncatin, single and a domestic cook) in two rooms at 9 Dunstable Court, St Andrew, Holborn, London.
In the 1911 census as Jane Collins aged 64, born in Farnham, Surrey, widowed, living on her own means and visiting Walter Grant (aged 50, born in Nayland, Suffolk and a police pensioner), his wife (Catherine aged 47 and born in Bloomsbury, London), and a boarder (Frederick Penson aged 20, single and a gardener) in five rooms at Beech Cottage, Goose Rye, Worplesdon, Surrey.
Death of Jane Collins in FreeBMD in October-December 1928 aged 81 in Pancras (1b 98).
On a copy of the entry of death in 1928 in East St Pancras, St Pancras in the County of London No.72 Sixth November 1928 at Oseney Crescent Jane Collins aged 81 years widow of John Collins a Coachman caused by a cerebal haemorrhage and Coma informed by A A Stuart Grand-Daughter and Present at the Death 79 Camden Mews, Camden Square NW1 on Ninth November 1928.
There are six entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Jane Adams born in 1846/7 in Farnham, Surrey, parents William Adams and Hannah Vinden, her marriage to John Collins on 10 November 1867, and her son and daughter.
Jane Adams was the second cousin once removed of Mary Ann Carpenter Adams, wife of Edward Fullick, my first cousin four times removed.
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