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the National Health Service. As the historian, A J P Taylor stresses, “Traditional values lost much of their force. Other values took their place. Imperial greatness was on the way out; the welfare state was on the way in. The British empire declined; the condition of the people improved.”
The 1950s were less austere. Youngsters became teenagers with financial resources which began to attract capitalists to develop a ‘teenager market’. American values had started to infiltrate the British psyche. On 20 January 1961 John F. Kennedy was inaugurated President of the United States. How all these changes at the macro-level affected the Soothill tribe is difficult to tell. But certainly the world would be very different for some.
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1911 census
As already mentioned, the 1911 census shows 143 persons using the name of Soothill compared with the 115 Soothills in the 1861 census. Table 2.1 lists those 14 persons.
Table 2.1: Those named ‘Soothill’ in the 1911 census for England & Wales and those not included in the 1911 census
Name
Sex
Age
Relationship to H/H
Derived from
Abraham
M
69
HEAD
Thomas Hartley and Ellen (Barrett)
Ada
F
28
DAUGHTER
John and Ellen (Whitehead)
105
