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the series to have a live-in servant. While the grandparents appear to be financially comfortable, this seems to be a family in some sort of turmoil with the father, Joseph, in lodgings and his wife having apparently died at a fairly young age.
Of Joseph and Mary’s children, Lucy Ann married in Halifax in 1867, so one would have expected her to be in the1861 census as a Soothill, but there is no such evidence. The next child, William Arthur, married Elizabeth Tuck at Bradford Parish Church in 1870. They had two children – Fred (1873-1956) and William Riley (1875-1920). Fred, in turn, married Sarah Ann [SURNAME?], also at Bradford Parish church, in 1903, and they had three children – James William (1903-?), George Greenwood (1905-1976) and Anne Elizabeth (1907-?) – all of whom one would expect to see in the 1911 census. In contrast, there is no evidence that Fred’s brother, William Riley, either married or had issue, but he also should be in the 1911 census.
The third child of the biblical-sounding, Joseph and Mary, was Frederic(k), who married Matilda [SURNAME?] (1846-1886) in Bradford in 1881. Matilda was around six years older than Frederic(k), being born in Queensbury, Yorkshire, in about 1846. Sadly, Matilda died aged around 40 years in 1886. Certainly there is no evidence that Frederic(k) and Matilda had any children and also no indication that Frederic(k) who died in 1923 married again.
Finally, the fourth child of Joseph and Mary was Harriet Annie (1855-1937) who seems to have had an illegitimate child, John William (1878-1965). The father is not known although there is an entry of John Soothill on John William’s marriage certificate John William married in Halifax in 1897 and John William and his wife, had three children but one can only expect the eldest, Arthur (1909-1990), to appear in the 1911 census.
Now probing occupational and geographical change, the Riley and Horsfall households are split between addresses in Halifax and Bradford. Those
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