Page 208 - Just another English family (Sep 2019)

Geographical location is another topic that one can probe using census data, but in this putative census I have not yet accumulated enough systematic information to analyse their addresses in 1961, their places of birth and any changes between their place of birth and their present address, any discrepancies in the places of birth of husbands and wives. There is a similar problem about the lack of systematic information about occupations
I now want to follow through the various Soothill groupings using the same headings as in the previous chapters. However, by now the number of groupings has decreased somewhat. The twelve groupings identified in the beginning of the last chapter, relating to the 1911 census, has now been reduced to nine groupings. These are the families derived from Thomas (c.1802) and Elizabeth (née Mitchell) Soothill; John (b.1806) and Hannah (néeTasker) Soothill; Thomas Hartley (b.1812) and Ellen (née Barrett) Soothill; John (b.1812) and Ellen (b.1815) (née Whitehead) Soothill; John and Elizabeth (née Tetlow) Soothill; John and Sarah (née Holt) Soothill; Joseph (b.1821) and Mary (née Riley) Soothill; John (b.1822) and Mary (née Briggs) Soothill; and, finally, Joseph and Margaret (née Winnard) Soothill. No more is heard of the surprise additional family in the 1911 census headed by Robert and Annie Soothill – the daughter, Nellie, married in Halifax and became Mrs.Clarkin in 1937. Currently there is no one known to be using the name of Soothill in England and Wales in1961 who cannot be linked with one of these nine lines. The exception is the family of Peter and Doreen Soothill who will be considered separately. What has been characteristic already in the analysis in the two earlier chapters are the ebbs and flows over time in the numbers in these various groupings. This final fifty years will prove to be no exception in this respect.
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Derived from Thomas (c.1802-?) and Elizabeth (née Mitchell) Soothill
Entries in the putative 1961 census
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