missing 2nd great grandad

[ChrissieL]

Are you looking for Henry Clowes too? Could this be him?

1881 2746/95/51

Henry Clowes 15 yrs Potter’s Turner b Stoke with parents James, Eliza and siblings.

I think this is the correct Henry Clowes.  I checked the mothers maiden name of some of his siblings and it was Barlow.  There is a James Henry Clews with mmn Barlow on the Staffordshire BMD website born 1866. 

I can't find a connection with the Cosby family though 

Chris

[heywood]

Do you think that the two younger children were Henry Clowes’ children?

[Annette7]

The Harry Clowes Cosby b.1905 was also later Harry Clowes.

I would suggest that both Harry and May were his children, and not that of James Cosby hence Harry having Clowes as a second name which he later uses as his surname (like May).   Their births would be registered as Cosby as that was their mothers legal name and that means there was no earlier connection between the Cosby and Clowes families.

Annette

[heywood]

That’s also how I interpret the situation, Annette.

[madpips]

Thanks everyone for the info, i think that will be Henry on the 1881 census. I also now think that May and Harry are Henry's children, and that the marriage to James didn't last, but Mary and Henry couldn't marry. Will now have to research the Clowes line for May, and get a copy of her marriage cert. Thanks again for all your help guys.