How do I find someone I used to know?

[Alwaystwomagpies]

I had an old friend who went a bit hard to be around ( to put it nicely) and I haven’t seen him for about 20 years.
Strangely I thought about him last week with a sense of doom - he was always someone I could imagine not having a straight forward life- so I have been trying to search for him but to no avail.

I’ve tried FB, insta, twitter
Have found of some of his old friends on FB (although I know he fell out with a lot of them too) and he isn’t in their friends list

He isn’t on LinkedIn or at least loads of his name on there but def can’t see him on the photos (and he was always someone I would be fairly sure would put a photo up!)

I’ve googled his name and his mums name (Altho I wouldn’t be surprised if she has a new surname as she was single and that was her ex’s name) and the area they lived in and nothing

He isn’t mentioned on the Fb groups for his old sixth form college

I know his birthday and name
Where else could I look?

I’m just worried something bad has happened to him.

Have you tried Births, Deaths and Marriages?

I don't think he wants to be found. You could try searching social media accounts from somebody else's account, in case he's preempted this and already searched for you and blocked you from seeing him. Have you tried the electoral role? (No idea how!)

He won’t have blocked me and he won’t know my married name anyway.
There was no animosity between us.

Yes I’ve searched all SoMe accounts but it’s a very common name and unless there’s a photo I can’t know.
Have searched friends list of any of his old friends I can remember

It’s odd as he was very sociable and not at all shy of putting himself forward work wise etc so he’s not someone I would have imagined being hard to find

I’m worried he’s dead.

Try People Directory. Type his name in google with 192 at the end.

Some people don't have social media, I'm one of them ( apart from mumsnet hehe)

I’ve been experiencing something similar. A man who was my supervisor but we got on so well and often spent time after work together. Just as friends.
I left the job, we kept in touch for a bit, he wanted to move jobs had met someone he wanted to marry and then I didn’t hear from him. Time went on and I’ve tried to find him but no trace of him on any social media.
He had so many friends and was really popular so it doesn’t sit right that he wouldn’t be on Facebook even. I didn’t know any of his other friends as he commuted.
I also wonder if something happened to him.