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Kenneth in 1991, both were then unmarried, but much time has elapsed since! At that time, both were living in England. When I met Kenneth in 1990, he said that his son, David, who played football hoped to go to Italy to play football in the Italian League.
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[Ed. Keith hadn’t fully reconciled or deduplicated this section on research from the American censuses with the above section on journeys to the USA. That work is for a future edition!]
Earlier I mentioned that there are just 78 entries (using the Archive site) and 94 entries (using the Ancestry site) in the various United States censuses consulted – namely, 1860, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930 and 1940. There are, in fact, other completed censuses but they are either not available or the 1890 census was destroyed by fire. Also they may be other censuses conducted at the state level. However, certainly at the federal level, these records reveal comparatively few Soothills over the eighty years covered by these censuses. There is a build-up to a minor peak to the 1920 census with 20 entries and a small decline subsequently. However, these 94 entries mask the fact that only between 50 and 60 different persons are involved. Some of the different spellings of Soothill included in the Ancestry search mean that it is not definite that they are all actually Soothills and so that is the reason for the range of Soothills cited.
Using the Archive site these persons can be conveniently grouped by birthplace. The largest grouping of 15 persons is born in Illinois, but the first entry from this grouping occurs in 1900. The next largest groupings in terms of birthplace are, firstly, a group of 8 persons born in Rhode Island with their first entry in the
United States of America censuses
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