Delving into the family history on and off for about 20 years has left me hopelessly addicted to the following clues, hunches and inevitable red herrings that are all needed to piece together the bare chapters of someone's life. Unable to resist people's 'brick walls' or an innocent query re the origin of grandparents and those before, there's nothing better than trying to find the unfound.
This is my sudoku, my multilevel crossword, my jigsaw where most of the pieces are missing and there's definitely no picture to start from.
So - to satisfy this addiction, each week I intend to choose someone at random from the 1881 census (checking that their story hasn't already unfolded on ancestry.co.uk) and uncover, piece together what I can from internet sources their untold story.
The puzzling and the unfolding story will be told in this blog.

Thursday, 26 July 2012

First protagonist - Alexander Cowan

Seriously drawing a blank with this story. Either Ann Goy doesn't seem to be anyway after 1881. There's no second marriage for the mother nor any death. Maybe they emigrated - leaving son George William? He was 13 in 1881 and already boarding with another family. By 18 in 1886 he could have well been independent. His story has unfolded on ancestry but interestingly like his mother and sister, hasn't been found in 1891. After then he's stayed in Rotherham, marrying Lily Riley there in 1893. 
I might have to accept defeat with this (for now).

 Second protagonist to be chosen......
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