Finding long lost cousin

[mollykins]

Me and my cousins Niamh who both want to do marine sciences are looking for another distant cousin who also wants to do something similar.

But there's noone left in the family that knows both sides so it's incredibly diffilcult to find them. They're my great nans cousins great great grandson (don't ask me to put the apostrophes in that) but we're pretty sure that they're in the year below me.

We know that it's a male, probably in year eleven, and that he goes to a grammar school (or somewhere else for intelligent people) somewhere in the midlands, but that's about it, apart from the name of our common ancestor.

Is this a hopeless cause or is there a way of finding him?

In slight hope of finding him, Niamh has posted a message on a student forum that is mainly used by students of higher ability but he might not go on there, and we can't think of anything else, as there's noone else in our family that knows anyone else in this other persons . . .

[dotty.]

Jacob Law
Age: 34
Estimated birth year: abt 1857
Relation: Head
Spouse's name: Ellen Law
Gender: Male
Where born: Dudley Port, Staffordshire, England

Civil Parish: Aldridge
Ecclesiastical parish: St Mary
Town: Aldridge
County/Island: Staffordshire
Country: England

Street address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Education:

Employment status:

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Registration district: Walsall
Sub-registration district: Aldridge
ED, institution, or vessel: 1
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Jacob Law 34
Ellen Law 27
Marton Law 5
Edward Law 3
Mary E Law 1
Michael Ford 65
Martin Bailey 44

Source Citation: Class: RG12; Piece: 2257; Folio 7; Page 7; GSU roll: 6097367.

[dotty.]

so we're looking at Marton (sic) or edward law for the next generation then?

[Barmaid]

I don't know Dotty since Molly seems to think it is a female line!!!! gggrrrrrrrrr.

[jackthehat]

So you'll have got the email from the Ed reminding 'nix' that her account has been dormant for a while ?

Dotty can gain access to a whole lot of information for you.........she can turn up your birth record, your parents marriage records and this male cousin of yours (given sufficient information)....bet she can't find Niamh's, though :o)

[Barmaid]

Dotty I've got a "MOrton D Law" marrying Ethel M Case in OND 1915 in Nottingham. Vol 7b page no 777. Do you think that could be our chap?

[dotty.]

well they had 4 daughters, mary, eliza, maria and eva

[ummmm]

Bet she can't jack...!!

[dotty.]

no i think martin law married at walsall in 1910 to either May smith or gertrude willets, need the 1911 to see which

[Barmaid]

We'll be chasing our tails all night Dotty.

Molly, I know Dotty will do all she can to help and so will I, but you really do need to try and help with a bit more information.

[supersuezy24]

Just read through 4 pages..Has her cousin been found?
Wonder does he wanna be found

[mollykins]

The name Eliza rings a bell . . . I think it must run in the family.

it might not be an entirely female line, but a few, and enough to confuse us with all the name changes when they got married.

[mollykins]

Suezy he doesn't sound like he's going to be some hardcore gangster chav that does weed now does he?

[supersuezy24]

Never said that he did.

[dotty.]

Eva law married George Rishforth in 1920
Eliza law married George e cantrell
ahhhh got it,
Maria Law married George A Smart 1925.

[mollykins]

Rishforth, that sounds familiar aswell but when we were looking we were spelling it Rushforth!

[dotty.]

their daughter Joan smart was born 1927 and i think she married a Robert w leese in 1951 and they had a janet and a susan but not found a shiela

[mollykins]

Dotty, you're following following the wrong line, we know about that lot.

[dotty.]

so where did i veer off?

[mollykins]

I don't know, but we know about that branch I think Joan is one of the other cousins of the person that's the grandma of the boy we're looking for.

[mollykins]

So you need to go up and round through brothers/sisters and back down again.