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This is easier to confront than the journeys to Australia, for there are only four persons recorded by this source sailing to Canada. These four persons were involved in just three journeys.
The first recorded journey of the series involves Joseph and D Soothill who are travelling from Liverpool to Montreal, Canada in 1900. In fact, these are Joseph (1832-?) and Dinah (1844-1924) who married in Keighley on 9 February 1892. Dinah must have returned to England, for she appears in the 1911 census as a widow.
The second journey in the series involves W B Soothill who is travelling aged 17 from Liverpool to Montreal, Canada in 1919. The only W B Soothill on the database is William Barton Soothill but he was born in 1892 and so, unless he is giving a wrong age for some reason or it is wrongly recorded, does not seem to be this person. However, at the moment, this is no other credible candidate.
The third journey in the series involves Albert Soothill (shown as born 1893) who is travelling from Liverpool to Saint John, NB, Canada in 1931. This will almost certainly be Albert Soothill (1894-1979) who is the son of Joseph and Mary Ellen Soothill. Albert seems to have been married three times, so perhaps led a colourful life. At this time he would have been still married to his first wife, Dorothy (née Soulsby); Dorothy or Dora, as she was known, died in 1939.
The next family to emigrate to a ‘new’ country did so much later. It was certainly much after the notion of the British Empire had begun to disappear and the countries had become part of the Commonwealth. Kenneth (b.1938) and Margaret Soothill emigrated in 1966. Kenneth and Margaret have had two children – Catherine Elizabeth (b.1968) and David James (b.1970). Both were born in Canada – Saskatoon and Vancouver respectively. When I received a letter from
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