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respectively, who have their current address in Bradford, these are matched by two others who were born in Bradford and whose current address is in Leeds and Dewsbury respectively. Hence any shift to Bradford is not the predominant journey. There is one branch of the family who move from Yorkshire with three addresses in Wallington, Surrey in the 1911 census. However, mostly the moves are within Yorkshire – from being born in Barnsley and moving to Leeds in the 1911 census (a journey of 25 miles), from being born in Bradford and moving to Leeds (a journey of 10 miles), from being born in Bradford and moving to Dewsbury, from being born in Dewsbury and moving to Hunslet (a journey of 8 miles), from Dewsbury to Holbeck (a journey of 10 miles), from Huddersfield to Halifax (including Brighouse) (a journey of 8 miles – completed by two heads of household) and, finally, from Morley to Horsforth (a journey of 11 miles). All the ‘journeys’ are comparatively short. In Lancashire the person who was born in Manchester had moved to Rochdale by the time of the 1911 census, so all the Lancashire Soothills were now concentrated in Rochdale by 1911.
Places of birth of husbands and wives
In the 1861census the discrepancy between husbands and wives in terms of where they were born was rarely huge. In fact, there was only one coupling where the husband and wife were born in different counties. In the 1911 census there were four such cases with the husband always being born in Yorkshire and the wife being born in another county – Sowerby Bridge/Newcastle-on-Tyne, Bradford/Walcott (Lincolnshire), Halifax/Holt (Norfolk) and Dewsbury/Manchester (Lancashire) [the husband’s place of birth is placed first in these pairings]. In short, there is evidence of some mating from a wider catchment area but not much.
Occupations
Occupations are available for analysis in the 1911 census. I continue for this analysis to focus on the heads of households named Soothill in the 1911 census. Of the 37 heads of Soothill households, seven are women and I will deal with these first. Three of these women are widows – one is shown as a ‘chip potato maker’, another as a ‘housewife’ and nothing stated for the last one. Three others are
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