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Name
Sex
Age
Relations hip
Occupati on
Where born
Current address
Janie
F
59
MOTHER (widow of Jack)
John B. P.
M
73
SON
Blackpool area
Charles Forbes
M
57
FATHER
Winifred
F
51
MOTHER
Christine Mary
F
12
DAUGHT ER
Sarah
F
86
AUNT
Rosella
F
68
FIRST COUSIN
By 1961 this grouping had eight members of whom just five were actually born as a Soothill. This total of eight contrasts with the 1911 census when this grouping had 15 members of whom 12 were direct descendants with the others moving into the family by marriage. By this type of measure the grouping by almost halving seems to be in some trouble in terms of surviving. However, males are the mechanism for the transmission of the name and this shows an even worse prognosis – in 1911 there were four males in the reproductive window of 18 to 50 years, while in 1961 there was just one in this age window. Hence, this Soothill grouping does seem to be in serious decline.
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