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The elder of Arthur and Esther’s two daughters, Mary (1890-?) married in Wakefield in 1918 and so she should appear in the 1911 census as a Soothill. There is no evidence that Elsie (1893-?), their younger daughter, married and so one can expect her as another candidate for the 1911 census.
Next, there are Samuel and Harriet’s two boys who were both born in Dewsbury – Tom (1858-1934) and George Henry (1862-1940). Tom had married a Leeds girl, Mary Elizabeth Green (1862-?) in Leeds in 1884 and their life seems to have been spent in Hunslet which is only about three miles from Leeds. They had two children who were both born in Hunslet – William Barton (1892-1951) and Clarice (1905-?). William Barton married Ellen Hobson in Hunslet in 1920 and they had two children – Sydney Barton T. (1921-?) and Margaret (1927-?). They were no longer a Dewsbury family. Sydney Barton T. married Shelley (known as Nellie) Thornton (Shaw) and they produced David M. T. in 1951. Meanwhile, Clarice married Arthur Dickinson in 1946 in Spen Valley.
Tom’s brother, George Henry had a comparatively long life dying in 1940 in Wharfedale at the age of 77. He had married Eunice (known as Emmie) Newby (1863-1931) in Dewsbury on Christmas Day in 1882. They were only around 20 years of age when they were married, but they were soon producing children – Harriet (1883-1965), Harry (1886-1962), Frederick Newby (known as Fred) (1888-1960), Clifford (1891-1894) and Reta (1899-?). Harriet married Herbert Hallam (1881-1957) in the Zion Chapel, Horsforth, as Baptists, in 1907, but nothing more is known about them, while Reta married George Gomersall much later in 1927 in Wharfedale. Sadly, Clifford had a short life dying at the age of two in 1894. The two older boys had much longer lives.
Harry who married Edith Hannah Holmes (1887-1929) in Knaresborough in 1915 had one child, Jack (1916-1996). Jack, in turn, married Marion Barber (1923-?) in Felixstowe, Suffolk, in 1942. Jack and Marion had two children – John (1943-?) and
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