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(shown as born 1944), M J Soothill (shown as born 1943) and V Soothill (shown as birth date unknown). The party is travelling from Southampton to Yemen in 1951. In fact, this is Violet Soothill (1922-?) – who is married to William Soothill – taking her two children, Margaret Jean (b.1942) and William Graham (1944-1991) to the Yemen.
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USA
USA with 12 persons going there is the second most popular destination after Australia. There are seven journeys.
The first journey involves a male passenger, Tom Soothill (shown as born in 1865), travelling from Liverpool to Boston in 1901. This will be Tom Soothill (1864-?) who is the son of John and Sarah Soothill. Tom married Anna Louisa Edmondson and they had two children – Hilda N. (1889-?) and Ethel (1893-?). Sadly Anna Louisa died in 1900 in Lancaster, England, so Tom is sailing to Boston about a year after Anna’s death.
The second journey involves a male passenger, Arthur Soothill (shown as born in 1882), travelling from Liverpool to New York in 1912. This will be Arthur Soothill (1883-?) who married Hannah E. Davison (1883-1956) on 20 July 1912. Arthur is the son of Benjamin and Harriet Soothill; Arthur and Hannah had three children – Benjamin (1914-1914), Percy (1916-1973) and Stanley (1919-1920). Arthur seems to be traveling to Boston in the same year as his marriage but without Hannah! Arthur appears aged 36 in the 1920 census, but again apparently without Hannah. He is shown as residing as a boarder in the Chadwick household in Marcus Hook Ward 2, Delaware, Pennsylvania. For some reason he is not in the 1930 census, perhaps he had returned to England to be with his family? Anyway, he is in the 1940 census living in New York (where it says he was living in 1935). However, in the Citizen and
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