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Floxxie, I very much doubt if there is a direct route to the info you seek. My advice is to broaden your search and trust to luck.

Some years ago I asked for photographs of a pub that my parents used to manage. Long after, a former barman there got in touch. He had known my parents well and gave me all sorts of info.
Good luck with your search.

Yes Andrew that is a possibility. I have seen trees where name frequency is a problem and it is often solved by adding a number to the name.

I have been tempted to ask why the extra name, but I have found that some people can be very touchy about their trees 

Frequently in my Ancestry UK hints and searches, I find trees which match my own except that many of the people on them, from the 17th and 18th centuries, have middle names. In every case so far, there has been no documentary evidence to back up these additions.

Why do people do this?

Thanks everyone for your input. I would like to remind people, that there is a lot of info out there in cyberspace. Recently I had a strange and worrying hunch about an ex-partner of mine. Strange in that we had split up 37 years previously.

Within half an hour, using Ancestry, Facebook and a few other sites, I knew that she had died and when. I knew her address too. Also that her brother and father had died, who she had married, and where she had worked. I also knew where her sister worked and the names of her grandchildren.

I am an amateur, imagine what a pro can do.