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John Edward and Margaret’s second son, Graham, married Avis Ruby Garner in Rochdale in 1974. Sadly, Graham died aged 35 years in 1986. However, Graham and Avis had a child named Benjamin, but I have not yet discovered any more details.
These are the descendants of the long-living Samuel (1866-1962), but what of the descendants of Samuel’s elder brother, John Edward (1857-1908). In fact, his son, Albert Edward (1892-1973) who had married Ada Reece in Bradford in 1918 was still around at the time of the putative 1961 census, but they had had no children. None of the other descendants of John Edward survived as a Soothill till the 1961 census.
Now moving on to David’s brother, James (1846-1922), who had married Emma (née Turner) (1846-1902), had two boys - John (1866-1946) who had married Annie Elizabeth Cleavin in Bradford in 1890 and three of their four girls – Lily (1891-1971), Annie (1894-1970) and Gladys (1897-1993) - were in the 1961 census as spinsters, while George (1870-1914) who had married Catherine (known as ‘Kate’) Skelton (1871-1936) in Bradford in 1893 had four boys - Harold (1896-1948), Horace (1905-1977), Eric (1907-1971) and Frederick (1909-1990) – who had all married. Three of the boys, that is, excepting Harold, were still alive at the 1961 census and all their spouses including Harold’s second wife, Clara (née Liles) were also around at the 1961 census. Eric and Queenie (née Spender) (1909-2001) never had children so, in terms of descendants, I just need to focus upon Harold, Horace and Frederick.
Harold married twice – first to Violet E. Bower (1897-1941). Of their children – all boys – only Brian (1928-1985) – was still alive at the 1961 census, but there is no evidence of Brian getting married or having children. The eldest boy, Lawrence V. (known as Laurie) (1914-1956) had married Emily Fox in 1934 in Bradford and they had Brian (1936-1998) who had married Stella Chorlton (Bebb) (1923-1971) in 1952, also in Bradford. Brian and Stella had three children – Janet (b.1953) married in Bradford and, thus, became Janet Finch in 1983, Karen E. (b.1955) married also in Bradford becoming Karen Hepworth in 1976, leaving the youngest child, Brian A.
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