The air bnb listing has now disappeared too.
This is very thorough. Thank you!Ancestry stuff
Sorry if this is a bit jumbled, had to work backwards.
- Samantha Jade Cookes, mother's maiden name Williams, birth registered in Gloucester December 1988, could mean November birthday to match her company records. A cousin and someone who apparently knew her growing up (will call him Tiktok John) say this is her, birthday November 1988.
- Samantha Cookes is in Gloucester until 2008, when she shows up in York University halls. The Samantha Cookes who pulled the surrogacy scam dropped out of York Uni in her first year, 2008. I do believe the part about her losing her baby as evidence must have been submitted in her court case. There is, unsurprisingly, no public record of her after 2008.
- Cousin says she's the one that went missing 2013 and ended up in Ireland.
- The only other Cookes with mother's maiden Williams in Gloucester is indeed a younger brother. I'll not name him for privacy reasons, he's nothing to do with this. No sisters. This is what her cousin and Tiktok John say.
- Tiktok John says her dad's name was Les and he died a few years ago. There is indeed a record for a Leslie Cookes in Gloucester, about the right age, died 2016. His middle name is the same as the possible little brother but it is a very common one. I found his brother's name and an obituary names all the people I came across on my Facebook travels.
- Leslie Cookes married a Williams in 1987. As above, had Samantha in 1988 and a younger brother.
- Leslie Cookes married a Smith in 1970. They had two sons and I've found them both via the cousin's Facebook. These would be the two older half brothers people are giving the cousin tit about in tiktok comments - she originally said Samantha only had a younger brother as the half brothers are older and never lived with her. Ancestry puts them as teenagers when Samantha was born so this seems legit to me.
- There is no Carrie Cookes at all. Anywhere. There were a few Carolines born in the 1800s.
- The only Carrie Williams in Gloucester had a different mother, was born August 1983 and death registered the same quarter.
- There's one Carrie Williams with mother's maiden name Williams born in Shropshire but she's too young and I can't link her to any of the rest of them. It's quite a common name in Wales and along the English side of the border.
It's 100% all the same person and hopefully her family can be left out of it now.