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in June 1971 in Binghampton, Broome, New York. There is a record in the U.S. National Archives of an alien case file for Beatrice, presumably relating to immigration. It is part of a series of case files compiled between 1944-2003, but nothing further seems to be publicly available.
The seventh journey involves a female passenger, Beatrice Soothill (shown as born in 1907), travelling from Southampton to New York in 1859. This shows Beatrice (1907-1971) again.
While I have identified two Soothills11 – William and Roy William - as enlisting in the First World War, I have only found one – Howard F Soothill, shown as coming from Massachusetts, who enlisted as a private in New York City on 25 August 1943. At that point he was not assigned to a branch of the services. When I was in the States, I went to see the Statue of Liberty. The Statue was restored in 1985 and, among the register of contributors to the Liberty Centennial Campaign (comprising of 2,500,000 individuals), there was ‘Howard F. Soothill, Fair Lawn, NJ 07410’.
John H. Soothill (1861-1923) was born in Harvard, Illinois and married Mrs Fannie A. Vasey Gorton on 28 August 1884 in McHenry, Illinois. Fannie was born in July 1857 in Illinois and so seems to have been about four years older than John. John and Fannie seem to have had four children although Jennie V. (born about 1882) seems to have been born out of wedlock. Jennie is presumably Jennie Soothill Wood who is recorded in the Obituary Index of the Belvedere Newspapers (Boone County Illinois) on 25 August 1909 – shown as Colorado or Poplar Grove – and thus will have died at the young age of around 27 years.
11. William Soothill (1889-?) [pob – New York] – World War 1 Draft Registration Card 1917.
Roy William Soothill (1887-?) [pob Nebraska] – World War 1 Draft Registration Card 1917.
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