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John (1822-?) and Mary (née Briggs) Soothill
Entries in the putative 1961 census
Name
Sex
Age
Relations hip
Occupati on
Where born
Address
Mary
F
72
Sister of Fred and Harry Oates
Fred
M
66
Brother of Harry Oates
Harry Oates
M
63
Brother of Fred
By 1961 this grouping had three members of whom all three were actually born as a Soothill. However, the group was elderly with no males in the reproductive window of 18 to 50 years. In fact, all three had been in the 1911 census. This total of three contrasts with the 1911 census when this grouping also had seven members of whom six were direct descendants. By this type of measure the grouping is now struggling. However, males are the mechanism for the transmission of the name – while in 1911 there was just one in the reproductive window of 18 to 50 years, by 1961 there was nobody in this age window. Hence, this Soothill grouping seems to
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