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census John is shown as living with Annie in Rhode Island with his family – Anna (5), Mary (4), Ella (2) and Rhoda (8m). John is working in a worsted mill.
Owing to their early deaths or perhaps the females getting married, there is little that seems to come directly from this large family in subsequent censuses. However, there are exceptions. John E. appears in the 1930 census where he is aged around 46 years. In that census John is shown as still living in Rhode Island at South Kingstown, Washington. John appears as a single person and as a boarder in the household of Alfred (aged 56) and Emily Clenderay (aged 49); the Clenderays immigrated into America in 1911.. In that census John E.’s father’s birthplace is shown as England his mother’s birthplace is entreered as Rhode Island.
Someone called Lena Soothill also appears in the 1930 census and this seems likely to be Evelina as she would now be aged around 41 years – the age shown in the census return. Her father’s birthplace is shown as England, while her mother’s birthplace is entered as Rhode Island. Lena is shown as an inmate in Exeter, Washington, Rhode Island, in an institution with around 50 persons.
A person who appears in marriage records, but not in any United States censuses is Ella (1861-?) who was born in Rhode Island and is possibly a sister of John. The slender evidence is that John called his daughter ‘Ella’. Accepting this slender evidence would suggest that John’s parents came across to the U.S.A. after John’s birth in 1853 and by Ella’s birth in 1861. Ella eventually married Frank Benjamin Call Baptiste.
The only ‘new’ person, born in Rhode Island, to appear in subsequent censuses is Ruth Soothill who is shown in the 1910 census aged as living in Providence, Rhode Island. It is not yet clear how she links in with other Soothills. However ,the puzzle with the Rhode Island Soothills is how they just appear intermittently in the censuses. What, for instance, have John and Lena been doing between 1880 and 1930 which means that they have not been included in the
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