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From Pioneers to Permanency
From pioneers to permanency
Having tried to establish the pioneers, I now want to make the transition to what subsequently happened by focusing on the families that remained in the places these pioneers had emigrated to. Essentially this means focusing – in the order of the pioneers’ arrivals - on the United States, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia and Canada. However, before doing that, I want to mention the Passenger Lists from the UK (1890-1960) which are published and are a useful source for identifying movement but is also a way of checking whether I have missed any countries where Soothills have become established.
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On the Passenger Lists from the UK (1890-1960), there is evidence of 60 such journeys undertaken by persons named ‘Soothill’. There are fewer persons as some had more than one sailing from the UK. The destination countries were distributed as follows – Australia (27), Canada (4), New Zealand (9), Portugal (2), South Africa (2), USA (12) and Yemen (3). Clearly Australia dominates in popularity. However, the important point is that in this list the only countries which have not been mentioned so far are Portugal and Yemen. Are there permanent moves to these two countries which need to be considered?
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There is only journey recorded to Portugal and this involves Ronald (shown as born 1899) and Thelma (shown as born 1900) Soothill who were sailing from London to Lisbon in 1931. In fact, these are
Ronald (1998-1980) and Thelma (1899-1997) who were married in Birmingham on 15 December 1926.
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Similarly, the Passenger Lists for Yemen show three persons named Soothill on one journey to Yemen. This party of three consists of W G Soothill
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