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. 

The Soales first emerged at the end of the 16th century as agricultural labourers too poor to afford their own graves, but their ancestors from long ago were amongst the most powerful and influential in Britain, including the Guardian of Scotland, John de Soules (died 1310) who ruled Scotland before the first King of Scotland, Robert the Bruce, as well as a Soules nobleman who accompanied William the Conquerer, and not forgetting Scottish border nobles who lived in castles, enjoying the fruits of prosperity.

The story of the Soales is one that begins as early as Germanic tribes in the Iron Age whose descendents would rise to becoming a powerful force in Britain, followed by their gradual fall from grace from rulers, to nobles, to lords, to labourers. And the determination of their 19th century descendants to go outside of their homeland in Kent in search of better opportunities, sail boats and board ships to explore the world as they had never done before. This is the story of House Soale.