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This grouping follows through the four children following Joseph Soothill’s marriage to Mary Riley. They had four children – Lucy Ann (1845-?), William Arthur (1849-?), Frederic(k) (1852-1923) and Harriet Annie (1855-1937).
Of Joseph and Mary’s children, Lucy Ann married in Halifax in 1867, while the next child, William Arthur, married Elizabeth Tuck at Bradford Parish Church in 1870. They had two children – Fred (1873-1956) and William Riley (1875-1920). There is no evidence that William Riley either married or had issue, but Fred is certainly more active in this respect. Fred married Sarah Ann [SURNAME?], also at Bradford Parish Church, in 1903, and they had three children – James William (1903-?), George Greenwood (1905-1976) and Anne Elizabeth (1907-?). James William married Violet Exley in Dewsbury in 1930. James William and Violet had one child, James Anthony (b.1937) who was born in Leeds. James William’s brother, George, married Kathleen Blakey (1910-1988) in Leeds, but they did not have any children. Finally, Annie Elizabeth married in Bramley in 1926, but I have no further information as to what happened to Annie.
The third child of the biblical-sounding, Joseph and Mary, was Frederic(k), who married Matilda [SURNAME?]. Matilda was around six years younger than Frederic(k), being born in Queensbury, Yorkshire, in about 1846. Sadly, Matilda died aged around 40 years in 1886. Certainly there is no evidence that Frederic(k) and Matilda had any children and also no indication that Frederic(k) who died in 1923 married again. In fact, in the1911 census Frederick is shown living in Bradford in the household of John and Grace Horsefield as a boarder.
Finally, the fourth child of Joseph and Mary was Harriet Annie (1855-1937) who seems to have had an illegitimate child, John William (1878-1965). John William went on to marry in Halifax in 1897, but his wife’s name is not known at present. John William and his wife had three children, all boys – Arthur (1909-1990) who went on to marry Gertrude Burrow (1908-1984), John William (1915-?) married Edith Olive Wood (1920-1991), while William (1918-1975) married Violet Annette Rochester (1922-?) in Maidstone in 1941. It would be interesting to know how
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