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has so far married or had issue. Christian married Annabel L. Willis in Durham in 1998 and they have two girls – Lily-Rose Christabel (b.2000) and Scarlet Poppy (b. 2002). While Kenneth Alan regards his family as coming from Wakefield, his generation have shifted somewhat from the area. Kenneth Alan and Rosemary now live in the York area.
Thomas and Elizabeth’s second eldest son, Samuel (1831-?), has representatives in the 1961 census via his sons Tom (1858-1934) and George Henry (1862-1940). Tom was the elder brother who married Mary Elizabeth Green. Their son, William Barton (1892-1951) married Ellen Hobson; William and Ellen produced Sydney Barton T. who, in turn, married, Shelley (known as Nellie). Sydney and Nellie had just one child, David M. T. (b.1951) who does not seem to have had any children. Hence, again this is a line that seems likely to end early in the 21st century.
Tom’s younger brother, George Henry, had married Eunice (known as Emmie) Newby. Their son, Harry, married Edith Hannah Holmes and their only child, Jack (1916-1996) married Marion Barber (1923-?). Jack and Marion had two children – John (b.1943) and James (b.1946) who both appear in the putative 1961 census. John married Patricia A. Whitlock in 1969 in Newton Abbot and they have two children, Karen Louise (b.1972) and Paul John (b.1975), while James married Carol A. Sealy (b.1951) in Bristol in 1972 and they also have had two children – David James (b.1981) and Helen Ann (b.1983). So the line following George Henry seems to be flourishing at the end of the 20th century.
Elsie – shown in the 1961 census list – is the youngest child of Arthur and Esther and is thought to be a surviving spinster at the time of the 1961 census. In fact, Elsie is the aunt of Haydn and Leslie Soothill mentioned above – Elsie is the sister of their father, William.
In each of the previous chapters I have attempted to chart the geographical and occupational changes for each grouping over the fifty years in focus. I will attempt
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