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1880 census.
By the time of the 1880 census there is no Loisa displayed and the children are not clearly evident in the subsequent censuses. There is no subsequent Charlotte or Loisa, but it is tempting to see this William as the William (born in England) shown in the 1910 census as then living in the Bronx Assembly District of New York. However, there are problems with this assumption. William would then be 62 years of age, but the 1910 census shows William as being born about 1858 which makes him as 52 years rather than 62! However, even more telling is that William’s immigration year is won as 1880. Nevertheless, with two English parents, his parentage should be traceable. His wife, Mary, also aged 52 was born in England with both her parents being English. However her immigration year is shown as 1882. In the household, there are William and Mary’s two children, Margaret (aged 24 – born 1886 in New York) and William (aged 20 –born about 1890 also in New York) Margaret, born in New York and probably his wife, and Mary, born in England.
By the 1920 census William is living away from his parents in Springfield Ward 2, Hampden, Massachusetts. William (now aged 31) is married to Elizabeth (aged 30) and living in a rented home with their 3-year-old child, Howard F. together with a 55-year-old widow, Elvira Fitzgerald, who is shown as a boarder. Both William’s wife and son were both in Massachusetts – Elizabeth’s father was born in Ireland and her mother in Massachusetts. [There is a William O. Soothill who appears in the Citizen and Naturalization Records with an entry on 20 October 1890 with an address as Fordham, New York city and an occupation as a carpenter].
In the 1880 census there were just 7 Soothills identified and these were either born in Rhode Island (5 persons) or in England (2 persons). John (1852-?), who was born in England, had married Annie (née Card) (1854-?) who herself was born in Rhode Island, USA. John and Annie had nine children – Anna E. (1875-?), Mary (1876-?), Ella (1878-1928), Rhoda (1879-1883), James L. (1881-1886), Lilly (1883-1886), John E. (1885-?), George H. (1886-1889), Evelina (1888-?). In the 1880
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