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Amelia
F
56
GRANDM OTHER
Derrick Luther
M
27
SON
Patricia E.
F
DAUGHT ER-IN- LAW
Michael P.
M
5
GRANDS ON
Helen
F
5
GRAND- DAUGHT ER
William
M
18
SON
Rosella
F
70
GRANDFA THER’S SISTER
By 1961 this grouping had 21 members of whom 16 were actually born as a Soothill. These 16 are direct descendants of either John and Elizabeth’s elder son, Alfred (1856-?), or their younger son, Joe (1857-1936). This total of 21 contrasts with the 1911 census when this grouping had just six members of whom five were direct descendants with only one moving into the family by marriage. By this type of measure with the grouping well over trebling over the previous fifty years suggests that the grouping is on the rise in terms of numbers. However, males are the mechanism for the transmission of the name – in 1911 there was just one male (Walter (1891-1929)) in the reproductive window of 18 to 50 years; in fact, although Walter married Florence Clark in 1926, Walter died three years later with Walter and Florence having no children, so the survival of this grouping was left to others. In
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