This article was originally published in the December 2001 edition of Soul Search, the journal of The Sole Society.

 

• In the 1851 Census I found a lonely Solley in Westonzoyland.

 

• From the Derby Mercury, 11, October, 1798:

Tuesday se'nnight at Ash, Kent, after a courtship of 50 years, Mr. Richard Solley, farmer and grazier, married Miss Rebecca Fearham