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William Charles Soale was born on the 4th of February, 1907 in Hackney, London. He was the only child of his parents. His father was William George Soale (1878-1906) and his mother was Emily Amelia Jane Kimpton (1884-1916).
By 1909, three years after the marriage of William Charle’s parents, his father had already appeared to have gone missing.
His mother had already left the house at Ashenden Road, Upper Clapton, London with William Charles to go live at her mother’s house instead. Given that she was not working at the time, it is possible that she could not afford to stay at her husband’s place.
Royal Family Connection
All Sollys, Soales and Soals, that is those who are all related to the Sollys of Ash, Kent that are descendants of Stephen Joseph Solly (1520-1590) and Margaret Elizabeth Hougham (Born 1526, Died betw. 1610-1611), are related to the Royal Family through Ragnvald Eysteinsson, Earl of Møre (825-890). The tree below put together by India Soale (the creator of this website) shows the connection between her ancestors and the Royal Family, making her approximately 30th cousins with King Charles.
Viking Soales
The tree India Soale has put together below shows her oldest ancestor to be King Fornjotur of Kvenland (Born 160 AD), her Great x45 grandfather.
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William George Soale
(1878-1906)
William George Soale was born in Hackney, London on the 10th of August, 1878. His parents were Richard William George Soal (1847-1913) and Eliza Ann Forwood (1847-1933). He lived on Holly Street in Dalston, London with his parents and siblings.
He was baptised on the 26th of August, 1878 at St James the Great, Bethnal Green, Tower Hamlets near Hackney and Dalston.
William George Soale was the youngest of four. His three siblings included Annie Elizabeth Soale (born Hackney, 1873, died in 1919, Florida, US), his brother, Richard John Soale (1869-1923) and his sister named Helen Elizabeth Soal (1875-1958). He lived on Backstone Road with his mother, his brother, Richard, and his sisters Annie and Helen.
His father was a wine cellarman, a role which would eventually be passed down to him.
In 1881 William, his parents and siblings moved to live on Blackstone Road in Dalston, Hackney, London.
During his late teens, he was a pattern card maker and would weave baskets for the wine merchant who his father worked for.
Richard William Soal
(1846-1913)
Richard William Soal was born in the summer of 1846 in St. Peter, Thanet, Kent. He was 5 foot 8, had blue eyes, a fair complexion and dark hair. He was baptised on July the 30th 1846 in St. Peter, Kent, England,
His parents were Richard John Soal (1807-1885) and Ann Jordan (Born 1809). They were agricultural labourers who lived in a farmhouse at Joss Farm, Rose Lane in St Peter, Thanet. He also lived with his older brother, Edward Thomas Soale (1844-1917).
Richard's father unlike his grandfather who fathered many children, had only two sons who he could barely afford to keep fed.
By 1961, Richard William George Soale left the farmhouse to work as an apprentice for a blacksmith called Peter Young. Peter Young had four daughters and no sons and accommodated Richard as his servant.
Along the coast of Kent there were popular places for sailors and mariners who were in need of blacksmiths to repair and build ships.
Richard W Soale, now a blacksmith, perhaps saw an opportunity to employ his skills for shipbuilding, which brought him into contact with a mariner's daughter, Eliza Ann Forwood.
HOUSE SOALE
The Soale family are descendants of the Solly family of Ash, Kent which included mayors, knights, landowners and other notables throughout the 15th and 16th centuries.