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Emily
F
68
GRANDM OTHER
Gordon Granville
M
38
SON
Alice Edna
F
36
DAUGHT ER-IN- LAW
Hilary
F
5
GRAND- DAUGHT ER
Albert
M
66
FATHER
Joseph Raymond
M
21
SON
Eileen
F
DAUGHT ER-IN- LAW
By 1961 this grouping had 10 members of whom just six were actually born as a Soothill. These six are direct descendants of Joseph and Margaret’s son, Thomas, who married Betty Bedford in 1862. And, in turn, they are the direct descendants of their eldest child, Joseph who married Mary Ellen Kendall in 1887. This total of ten contrasts with the 1911 census when this grouping had 19 members of whom 15 were direct descendants with the others moving into the family by marriage. By this type of measure with the grouping almost halving it seems to be in some trouble in terms of surviving. However, males are the mechanism for the transmission of the name – in 1911 there were seven males in the reproductive window of 18 to 50
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