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The air bnb listing has now disappeared too.

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.
This is very thorough. Thank you!
 
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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.
Amazing research 👏
All those on TikTok still refusing to believe she is Samantha need to see this
 
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She also said that if in her twenties she went through a horrible bereavement.

IF none of this is true, then I don’t think it was ever about scamming people out of money, it was in my opinion more for the attention, sympathy, admiration etc. I don’t think it would have progressed to a Go Fund Me etc.
The bereavement could be the cot death that is the reason ‘Samantha Cookes’ avoided jail for the surrogacy scam.
 
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Amazing research 👏
All those on TikTok still refusing to believe she is Samantha need to see this
Thanks everyone! I have seen this thread mentioned on tiktok and twitter so hopefully people make their way here.

@ new people reading: promise tattle isn't all bad 😂 feel free to make an ancestry account and check it all out for yourself, I just feel like it crosses a line for me to post screenshots with info of people who have nothing to do with her.

Edit: forgot to add to my original post and it's too late to edit it now. No Caroline Williams with any details matching either.
 
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I'm glad you've confirmed she's deleted the YouTube. Spent bloody ages writing out a message outlining everything that has been raised and had several responses from others including a 'brother?' and then less than 5 mins later the video had gone. Thought I'd been blocked 🤣.

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.
Move of Fact Freek we've a real sluice in town!!
 
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I'm glad you've confirmed she's deleted the YouTube. Spent bloody ages writing out a message outlining everything that has been raised and had several responses from others including a 'brother?' and then less than 5 mins later the video had gone. Thought I'd been blocked 🤣.


Move of Fact Freek we've a real sluice in town!!
What did the ‘brother’ say??
 
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So what do we think her next move will be? Evidence is mounting up and whilst she definitely still has quite a lot of people behind her, she is going to be under extreme scrutiny from now onwards from everyone else
 
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I'm glad you've confirmed she's deleted the YouTube. Spent bloody ages writing out a message outlining everything that has been raised and had several responses from others including a 'brother?' and then less than 5 mins later the video had gone. Thought I'd been blocked 🤣.


Move of Fact Freek we've a real sluice in town!!
Did you catch the brother's name?
 
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I’ve just found this?? Interesting, name age etc adds up?? Thoughts?
This company is registered in Northern Ireland. Her AirBnB as far as I'm aware is in County Kerry, which is in Ireland Ireland. Last time I checked, still different nations...
 
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you have to be seriously mentally ill to pull something like this. Because there’s been no go fund me etc I don’t think the goal was money. Like others have said it’s an attention and sympathy thing. If its all made up then I hope she gets proper mental help. All very weird
 
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If you look up ‘TikTok John’ on Facebook, he’s from the same area as the Cookes family.
 
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What did the ‘brother’ say??
I could only see the first couple of lines in my YT notifications, when I click on it it says the content is no longer there. He said that he is her brother and there is no sister and there's clearly more but the video has gone 🧐. Barry Todd also commented... He knew her from 'years back' and also said she didn't have a sister...
 
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you have to be seriously mentally ill to pull something like this. Because there’s been no go fund me etc I don’t think the goal was money. Like others have said it’s an attention and sympathy thing. If its all made up then I hope she gets proper mental help. All very weird
I agree. And I don’t believe she has a husband (although she says she has) and if she has cut ties with all her family who will be there to support and do an intervention I don’t know 🤷‍♀️
 
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If you look up ‘TikTok John’ on Facebook, he’s from the same area as the Cookes family.
I'm pretty confident he knew her. Could be a fake name of course and I wouldn't blame him, but the profile pic is from February so doesn't seem like a burner set up specifically for this. My FB is locked down that much too. It was him giving her dad's name that made it easy to tie everything together on Ancestry.
 
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