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United Methodist Free Church. Sarah had already been married to a person named Mann – presumably she had become a widow to marry John William. John William and Sarah had three children – Frank (1899-1949), Annie (b.1902) and Arthur (1909-1990) – and more will be heard of them in the next chapter.
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So what next?
The story of the Soothill tribe in England and Wales has been taken up to 1911 in this chapter, that is, on the threshold of the 1911 census. During the fifty years under focus in this chapter, there has in many ways been little change. It essentially remains a northern tribe predominating in Yorkshire with outposts in Lancashire. There is evidence of one grouping moving southwards and there will in a later chapter be evidence of parts of the tribe moving abroad during this period, but most of the movement comes later.
The structure of the next chapter will essentially be the same as the present one, so the reader can follow the development of a particular grouping without reference to the others. However, there is also a fascination in trying to grasp how the tribe developed as a whole.
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