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Edward (1861-1935), Alfred (1863-1926), Walter (1866-1951) and Herbert Ashworth (1882-1965) – reached adulthood and all have Soothill descendants today.
William Edward had two children – Dorothea (1885-?) and Victor Farrar (1888-1956). Victor who was born on the China Sea eventually married Kathleen (née Bradfield) in 1916. Victor and Kathleen had three children – Jean F. (1921-?), Edward F. (1923-1961) and John F. (1925-2004).
Edward F. married Elizabeth (née Lazenby) in 1953. Edward F. is the father of Patricia A. (b.1954), Anthony E. (b.1956) and Jonathan C. (b.1958). Patricia married aged 19 in 1973, while there is no evidence that Anthony E. has either been married or had issue. Jonathan C. married Elizabeth M. M. (née Tutton) in 1984 and they have had two children – Laura Catherine (b.1991) and Henry David (b.1995).
John F. who married Brenda (née Thornton) is the father of Peter William (b.1957), Charles David (b.1959) and James S. (b.1961) – these three boys also have an elder sister, Mary E. (b.1953) who married Simon Kroll in 1978. Peter William married Caroline J. Mackenzie in 1984 and has had three girls – Emily Iona (b.1986), Germander (b.1988) and Bryony Jennifer (b.1990). Charles David who married Zia E. Reakes in 1990 has two children – John Richard (b.1992) and Elizabeth Georgina (b.1994). There is no evidence that the youngest of the brothers, James S., has either been married or had issue.
Walter, the third eldest boy of William and Margaret, is the forebear of the Soothills in Australia and will be discussed in Chapter 6. Herbert Ashworth, the youngest of William and Margaret’s children, is the grandfather of Gerard (b.1944) who has an elder sister, Judith (b.1941): Judith married Douglas Swindlehurst in 1973. Gerard has two boys - Edward Philip R. (b.1976) and David John R. (b.1980) – and one daughter (Helen Charlotte R. (b.1974). Edward married in Chichester in 2003. Currently, I have no evidence that any of them have had children.
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