Can anyone out there help me? There are 2 John Laws - both born about 1800, both lived in West Melton. Both coal workers. Both baptising children at the same period. Even both living in the same street.

One of them ( I have him on the 1841, 1851 censuses, according to which he was born in Wentworth) married Sarah (probably Walker, so the most likely marriage is June 1824 in Wath).

The other one married Harriet Beevers, March 1824 in Wath. According to the census he was born at Hoober Hall - which is a farm smack in the middle of Wentworth and Wath.

One of them was born in December 1800 and baptised in Wentworth in January 1801, parents Elias Law and Ann (my 3x great granparents).

PLEASE Can anybody help me work out which one of the Johns is Elias's son. It has driven me potty for about two years now. (It would be a bonus to know who the father of the other one is - but I'm not going to ask for too much.)

Thank you very much!