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69
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143
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Again the genders are fairly evenly split in terms of numbers – with a marginally higher number of males in each census - one still needs to focus on the division for the females between Soothills who acquired the name at birth and those who acquired the name by marriage. It seems that 32 of the females acquired the name of Soothill by marriage (there were 18 such females in the 1861 census) and one must assume that a similar number lost the name by marriage. Whereas well over one-half (57%) were under the age of 20 years in the 1861 census, only around one-third (34%) were aged under 20 years in the 1911 census. It is certainly a young group in the 1861 census with well over one-half (57%) under the age of 20 years. In contrast, while there were only eight persons aged 50 years or over in the 1861 census, there were 21 such persons in the 1911 census.
Geographical location is another topic that one can probe using census data. Again the main focus will be on heads of households.
Their present address
As stated in Chapter 1, the Soothills who are heads of household are pivotal for, in effect, they define the locus of the families. In the 1861 census all of the 21 heads of households who were named Soothill lived either in Yorkshire (16) or in Lancashire (5); by the 1911 census - of the 37 households headed by a Soothill - there were just a couple of households who had moved southwards to the Wallington, while the remainder were still either in Yorkshire (30) or Lancashire (6).6
6. This adds up to 38 - check.
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