Page 107 - Just another English family (Sep 2019)

While there is a change in the number of households with a Soothill as the head between the two censuses, there has also been a dramatic change of personnel. In fact, whilst there are persons who are named Soothill in both of the two censuses, of course, there will be others still alive who will have been named Soothill in the 1861 census. So, for example, there will be females who were in the 1861 census under another name and then became Soothills on marriage and, similarly, there will be those females who were Soothills in the 1861 but lost this label on marriage. However, only one of the heads of households named Soothill in the 1861 census survived to the 1911 census. Individual continuities of this kind are rare and, indeed, continuities of the family groupings identified in the last chapter are perhaps rarer than one might have expected. Indeed, only eleven of these groupings are represented in the 1911 census. The rest seem to have faded away or perhaps moved abroad. One interest will eventually be how many of these twelve groupings remain intact and have representatives in the putative 1961 census.
The eleven groupings are the households derived from Thomas (c.1802) and Elizabeth (née Mitchell) Soothill; William (b.1806) and Mary (née Holdsworth) Soothill; John (b.1806) and Hannah (née Tasker) Soothill; Thomas Hartley (b.1812) and Ellen (née Barrett) Soothill; John (b.1812) and Ellen (b.1815) (née Whitehead) Soothill; John and Elizabeth (née Tetlow) Soothill; John and Sarah (née Holt) Soothill; Joseph (b.1821) and Mary (née Riley) Soothill; John (b.1822) and Mary (née Briggs) Soothill; William (1815-?) and Eliza (1816-?) Soothill; ? and Amelia (née Bagshaw) Soothill; and, finally, Joseph and Margaret (née Winnard) Soothill. One surprise was that there was an additional family headed by Robert and Annie Soothill whose antecedents are currently unknown. Finally, there are four individuals - two sisters Clara (b.1873) and Annie (b.1875) Soothill, Harriett (b. 1857) Soothill and William (b.1877) Soothill – who still need to be linked to existing groupings.
However, before trying to make sense of the 1911 census, I want to try to highlight the importance of the next fifty years I will be considering.
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