Page 346 - Just another English family (Sep 2019)

42-year-old Frank, 40-year-old Teresa, 9-year-old Donald and 68-year-old Martha Soothill. Gwendolyn Is not in the 1940 census, probably married with an entry under another name, but Frank and T(h)eresa are still in Cook, Illinois, but now In Rich.
There are a couple of interesting points. While Frank and T(h)eresa were aged 29 and 23 years in the 1920 census, twenty years later in the 1940 census they had become 42 and 40-years-old rather than 49 and 43! They were in the same house as in 1935 which they owned. Frank is shown as a civil engineer with his highest grade completed shown as ‘College, 4th grade’, while T(h)eresa’s highest grade is shown as ‘College, 1st year’. Their son, Donald was born in Illinois about 1931. Martha, born in Iowa and now aged 68, is Frank’s mother – her highest completed year was ‘High School, 2nd year’. I thought Frank’s mother was named Lou (see above), so this is a bit of a puzzle.
Charles H. (1893-1972), son of Joseph and Lou, was born either in California or Illinois. Charles married Grace A Barrows on 5 January 1918 in Cook County, Illinois. Grace (1892-1985) was born in Illinois on 3 November 1892. Their child, Beverly Irene (1917-1996) was born in Cook County. Beverly eventually became Mrs Sperbeck but the date of the marriage is not known. Charles and Grace are both in the 1920 (with Beverly in this one) and 1940 censuses but seem to be missing from the 1930 census. In the earlier census they are in cook County, Illinois, but had moved to Los Angeles by the time of the 1940 census.
NOT CONNECTED
There are some other Soothills identifed in the United States who have not been readily connected with other Soothills in the States.
Frances Soothill
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