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his wife, Annie, as a dressmaker. Walter and Annie’s children, Fred and Harry Oates, are shown as a machine apprentice and as an office boy to a rag merchant. Perhaps the families had some connection to a rag merchant as their 26-year-old cousin, Mary Ethel, in the other Dewsbury household is shown as a rag sorter. In status terms, they seem much the same in 1911 as they were in 1861, but having a servant in Walter and Annie’s household perhaps suggests that there was now more money around.
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Derived from William (1815-?) and Eliza (1816-?) Soothill
Jane
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HEAD (single)
Manchest er, Lancashir e
6 Willow Place, Rochdale, Lancashir e
In the 1911 census Jane seems to be the only survivor named Soothill of William and Eliza’s large family of seven children. Jane is shown in the 1911 census with the marital status of single and as head of the household living in 6 Willow Place, Rochdale. Here she lives with her 31-year-old spinster niece, Gertrude Sladen who was born in Rochdale and who is currently a cotton winder aged 31. Jane died aged 62 in the following year in 1912 in Rochdale.
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Derived from ? and Amelia (née Bagshaw) Soothill
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