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Chapter Two
1911 AND ALL THAT (1911-1960)
The aim of this chapter is to consider the next fifty years. It starts by taking stock in 1911 using the census of that year. This period of fifty years (1911-1960) is massive in terms of world history encompassing two World Wars and, for Britain, the context of a declining British Empire. This chapter will focus on those Soothills living in England and Wales, but several branches of the family will have connections with Soothill outposts in countries which can loosely be grouped within the British Commonwealth as well as in an even older colony, the United States. However, this discussion of Soothills living overseas will be addressed in Chapter 6.
Taking stock in 1911
Using a similar framework to that used in the last chapter to analyse the 1861 census, I consider those using the name of Soothill in the 1911 census in terms of (a) Households headed by a Soothill in the 1911 census (37 households); (b) Households headed by a relative (i.e. not named Soothill) in the 1911 census (2 households); and (c) The other households containing a Soothill in the 1911 census (5 households).
In the 1911 census there are 44 households containing at least one person named ‘Soothill’. This contrasts with the 31 households in the 1861 census fifty years earlier, so there is not a dramatic increase. Similarly, this census shows 143 persons using the name of Soothill compared with the 115 Soothills in the 1861 census – again not a dramatic increase. However, the number of Soothills who are shown as head of a household has almost doubled over the fifty years from 19 such households in 1861 to 37 households in 1911.
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