Page 323 - Just another English family (Sep 2019)

Naturalizations Records with an entry on 6 September 1945 he is shown, aged 63 and residing at 46W 70th St., New York. Presumably he achieved U.S. citizenship. His date of death is not known and there is no evidence that either his wife (who died in Halifax in 1956) or his surviving son, Percy, joined him at any time in the United States.
The third journey involves a male passenger, William Edward Soothill (shown as born in 1862), travelling from Liverpool to New York in 1928. This is William Edward (1861-1935) who later became Professor of Chinese at University College, Oxford.
The fourth journey involves a male passenger, Ronald Soothill (shown as born in 1899), travelling from Southampton to New York in 1948. This is William Edward’s nephew, Ronald Gray Soothill (1898-1980) travelling to New York twenty years after his uncle.
The fifth journey involves a female passenger, Emily Soothill (shown as born in 1933), travelling from Liverpool to New York in 1954 aged 21 on the ship, Parthia. This is Emily Soothill (b.1932) who is the daughter of Sam (1889-1933) and Beatrice (1908-?) Soothill.
The sixth journey involves a large party of Soothills consisting of Beatrice (shown as born in 1907), Brenda (shown as born in 1927), John (shown as born in 1925), Mary (shown as born in 1953), Ronald (shown as born in 1898) and Thelma (shown as born in 1899), travelling from Southampton to New York in 1955. This large party is easily identifiable – Beatrice (1907-1971), but the family links with the others are not clear; Brenda (b.1927) and her husband John (1925-2004), their daughter Mary (b. 1953), John’s first cousin, Ronald Gray Soothill (1898-1980) and his wife, Thelma (1899-1997).
It is not clear who Beatrice actually is. She was born on 10 October 1907 and died 319