Page 49 - Just another English family (Sep 2019)

groupings, namely, occupation and geographical mobility. Essentially these can be summarised as ‘what type of job?’ and ‘where are they living?’ The focus is on possible change and the comparison is with their starting point in 1861. As stated earlier, it is more difficult to measure than one might at first imagine. Individuals may move and change jobs, but the plan is to try to focus on the centre of gravity of a grouping in terms of where they are living and what they are doing over time.
In 1861 this grouping had only two male members – William aged 35 and Samuel aged 28 – who could be said to be in the midst of their working life. Of the others, George was a 14-year-old errand boy just starting off his working life and 30-year- old Elizabeth shown as a housekeeper. William had a job as a railway guard in the comparatively new railway industry, while Samuel was a woollen cloth dyer in the established Yorkshire woollen industry. The location of the three known households in the 1861 census were all in Yorkshire – in Wakefield, Dewsbury and Halifax.
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William (1806-1847) and Mary (née Holdsworth) Soothill
Entries in the 1861 census
Name
Sex/ Relationshi p
Age
Occupation
Where born
Current address
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