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Their present address
The Soothills who are heads of household are pivotal for, in effect, they define the focus of the families. Of the 21 heads of households who are named Soothill, all are either in Yorkshire (16) or Lancashire (5). In Yorkshire, Bradford (6) has the most heads of households, followed by Halifax (4), then Dewsbury (2), while the rest – Bramham, Otley, Todmorden and Wakefield – have one each. In Lancashire, Rochdale dominates with three heads of household and Chorley and Bury having one each. Hence, in terms of their current addresses in 1861, this is a northern tribe.
This comment is further endorsed by the fact that the two other households headed by a relative (not named ‘Soothill’). Both of these households are in Halifax.
The remaining households which contain a Soothill but headed apparently by non-relatives show a similar distribution. Three are in Yorkshire – one each in Bradford, Halifax and Todmorden – and one in Lancashire in Manchester. The female Soothill in an institution is in Halifax, Yorkshire. The only two outside these two counties is one male based as a lodger in a household in Dudley and the other one is a soldier with his regiment based in Eastbourne.
Their place of birth
Continuing to focus on the Soothills who are heads of households, their places of birth indicate again that this is essentially a northern tribe in the early to mid-nineteenth century. All but one is born in either Yorkshire or Lancashire with the former having the majority of these births. Of the 15 born in Yorkshire, they tend to group around Halifax (8) or Bradford (3). The Halifax group includes King Cross (3) which is an ecclesiastical parish created in 1845 and is located along the
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