Page 89 - Just another English family (Sep 2019)

In a household of two people, George and Rebecca Soothill aged 32 and 35 years respectively are yet another household which does not seem to crop us elsewhere. In the 1861 census they are living at Park, Baildon in the registration district of Otley. George, now working in 1861 as a stuff presser in a dye house, was born in King Cross, Yorkshire, while Rebecca came from Bacup, Lancashire. King Cross was the birthplace of other Soothills. So, for example, Elizabeth Soothill (born around 1839) – and who appears in the 1861 as Elizabeth Fletcher - Elizabeth’s father in the 1861 is the widowed, John (who had been married to Hannah Tasker) and now living in Horton, Bradford. A guess would be that George is the son of this John Soothill but, currently, there is only flimsy circumstantial evidence for this assertion. William (born about 1826) was another born at King Cross; William, the son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Mitchell) is perhaps a candidate to be a brother of George who was himself born in about 1828 – Thomas and Elizabeth (Mitchell) married in 1824. The only puzzle is that Thomas and Elizabeth seemed to have had another son named George, who was born in 1843, so this makes the latter speculation rather unlikely.
Again no descendants being identified limits the focus on change over time, but George’s occupation in the 1861 census provides a familiar pattern – stuff presser in a dye house is not unexpected.
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James (1795-?) and Sally (née Scatcliffe) (1797-?) Soothill
Entries in the 1861 census
Name
Sex/ Relationshi p
Age
Occupation
Where born
Current address
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