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have no previous and no subsequent connections. Their household of five persons includes three children, Gilbert, Elizabeth and Ann (‘Ann’ seems a mistake as he is shown as a male quarryman!) with the surname of Roper. These three are presumably the outcome of an earlier marriage of Hannah who in 1861 is aged 49 years – seven years older than her current husband, Henry Soothill. As mentioned above, Henry was born in Manningham around 1819, while Hannah, his wife, and her three children were all born in Heaton, Yorkshire. As the children’s surname is Roper, their absence from the 1911 census as persons named Soothill is, therefore, not surprising!
Again the lack of information precludes a focus on change relating to this Bradford- based family, but Henry shown as a labourer in the 1861 census provides more evidence that the core of the family was working at this time at the labouring level of occupation.
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George (1828-?) and Rebecca Soothill
Entries in the 1861 census
Name
Sex/ Relationshi p
Age
Occupation
Where born
Current address
George
H/H
32
Stuff Presser in Dye House
King Cross, Yorkshire
Park, Baildon, Otley
Rebecca
Wife
35
House work
Bacup, Lancashire
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