Page 342 - Just another English family (Sep 2019)

John and Fannie’s third child was Ray Angeles (1887/8-1966) who was born in Nebraska on 24 August 1887. In the censuses of 1900, 1920 and 1940 in which he appears, Ray is identified as Ray William and is shown as living in Shasta, California; and in Los Angeles, California in the last two censuses. In the 1910, aged 22, Ray is shown simply as ‘Ray’ and is living in Aokland Ward 1, Alameda, California where he is living as a lodger (together with his sister, Mabel) in the household of Charles and Isabella Westaway. Ray was known to have enlisted in the military in the First World War. In the 1920 census he is shown as living in a residence in Los Angeles assembly District 75 as a lodger with seven other persons. In 1940 he is still in Los Angeles. He died in Los Angeles, California, on 11 August 1966 at the age of 78 years.
John and Fannie’s fourth child was Mable [sic] G. (1890-?), born in Illinois – sometimes spelt Mable and sometimes Mable. As stated, in the 1910 census, she is shown living as a 20-year-old lodger in the Westaway household. The Westaways comprised of an English husband, Charles and a Scotish wife, Isabella. Both now aged 48 with two children, Charles had immigrated in 1880 with Isabella following in 1882, but nothing more is known about her.
It seems likely that there is some connection between Jay Soothill and Henry Soothill. Four years earlier than Jay, Henry Soothill is recorded in the New Orleans Passenger Lists, 1820-1945, as arriving in New Orleans on 13 October 1914 in the ship, Abangarez, coming from Puerto Limon, Costa Rica. Henry’s last residence is shown on these lists as Nebraska. There is no mention of a Henry Soothill in the censuses so it now occurs to me that this Henry Soothill on the passenger lists may simply be Jay Soothill using his second name!
Meanwhile, the outcome of John and Fannie’s marriage seems like a breakdown. In the 1910 census Fannie, aged 52 and divorced, is shown as a lodger in the Barnett household in Oregon.
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