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I have speculated that this is the second marriage of John Soothill and that he was formerly married to Elizabeth Tetlow. Certainly John and Sarah Soothill (née Holt) married on 29 November 1861 at St. John the Baptist, Halifax. They appear to have already had George (born in 1860 in Huddersfield), but they also had six other children after wedlock – Harry (1862-1942), Tom (1864-?), John (1866-1913), Ann (1869-1910), Benjamin (1872-1937) and Sarah (1874-1963). By the 1911 census this grouping had eight (possibly nine) males who could be traced back to John and Sarah Soothill.
Following these children is interesting. Four of the boys – George, Harry, Tom and Benjamin – married, while there is no evidence that any of the others – that is, John, Ann or Sarah – did. John is shown in the 1911 census as a 44-year-old boarder in the house of Kate Headband who is a 51-year-old widow living with her son, Ernest, in Sheffield. Sadly, John died two years later in Eccleshall. Sarah, on the other hand, shown in the 1911 census as the head of a single person household is living in Brighouse and working as a ‘silk gasser’; Sarah will live on till 1963 dying at the age of 88 years.
George (1860-1920) married Elizabeth A. Barraclough (1860-?), a woman born in Barnsley, at Halifax Parish Church in 1882. They had four children – Mary Elizabeth (1883-?), Annie (1886-?), Rosella (1892-?) and John Albert (1888-1945). Mary Elizabeth and Annie married, both in Halifax, in 1904 and 1908 respectively. There is no evidence that Rosella – who appeared in the 1911 census as a cotton winder - ever married. John Albert married Edith Hartley in Halifax in 1912. They had a child, Mildred (1915-?), who, in turn, got married in Halifax in 1937.
Harry married Lucy Jane Bottomley (1865-1936) in Halifax in 1884 and they, in turn, had three children – Sarah Elizabeth (1884-?), Beatrice (1886-?), and Sam (1889-1933). Sarah Elizabeth married in Halifax in 1909, while Beatrice married in 1911 (probably after the census), also in Halifax. Sam, meanwhile, married Ellen May Miller in Thanet in 1912. They had three girls – Irene (1913-?), Iris (1921-?), and Beryl K. (1929-?). Irene was born in Halifax, Iris was born in Merthyr Tydfil, while
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