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.]

so what about the surname Smart, didn't you mention that?

[mollykins]

I think you need to go across to a brother or sister at the rishforth person.

[mollykins]

Dotty i think that's the wrong line, but we weren't sure as we weren't entirely sure when this cousins family branched off . . . must be before the smarts if they're the only decendants.

[mollykins]

Maybe the generation before the smarts?

[jackthehat]

Any Collins' there yet, dotty..............? :o)

[mollykins]

Did you know that one of those georges fought in one of the world wars and was injured, but he recovered and went back, but then he died of something like flu or TB (I think)

[mollykins]

Have you found any venables from the Rishforths? that might be the best line to follow.

[mollykins]

Have you given up?

[ummmm]

Molly....don't be ungrateful. They might be having dinner/watching eastenders...etc etc..

[supersuezy24]

Molly you are very persistent :)

[mollykins]

I'm not, I'm asking if they've come to a deadend aswell. Who watches eastenders!?!?!

[dotty.]

is ther surname snow familiar? I'm watching the soaps at the minute

[mollykins]

It seems as if we're getting somewhere now.

[dotty.]

I've found a Susan Snow but can't tell which she married, choice of surnames are Manley or rudge

[mollykins]

Yeah, but we don't know how.

[mollykins]

The boys great grandad may have had a sister who married someone called snow. can you find susans brother?

[mollykins]

NPs with you watching the soaps dotty (although it's beyond me why you'd want to) I appreciate your help.

[dotty.]

Michael?

[mollykins]

The brother? IDK is that the only brother she had?

[dotty.]

think so