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Name
Sex/ Relationshi p
Age
Occupation
Where born
Current address
George
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Huddersfiel d
As already mentioned above, I have speculated that this is the second marriage of John Soothill and that he was formerly married to Elizabeth Tetlow. Certainly John and Sarah Soothill (née Holt) married on 29 November 1861 at St. John the Baptist, Halifax. Currently, their antecedents are not known. However, they appear to have already had George (1860-1920) who was born in Huddersfield, but they certainly had six other children after wedlock – Harry (1862-1942), Tom (1864-?), John (1866-1913), Ann (1869-1910), Benjamin (1872-1937) and Sarah (1874-1963).
Four of the five lads produced by John and Sarah subsequently married. The exception was John. Also neither of the girls, Ann or Sarah, appear to have married. By the 1911 census this grouping had eight (possibly nine) males who could be traced back to John and Sarah Soothill.
George married Elizabeth Ann Barraclough (1860-?), a Barnsley girl, in Halifax Parish Church in 1882. They had four children – Mary Elizabeth (1883-?); Annie (1886-?); Rosella (1892-?); and John Albert (1888-1945). They were all born around Brighouse, Halifax.
Mary Elizabeth married in 1904, Annie married in 1908, and John Albert married Edith Hartley in 1912; there is no evidence that Rosella ever married.
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