George Booth Esq. (abt. 1490 - 1531)

Born about 1490 in Dunham Massey, Cheshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Boteler) Booth — married about 1514 in England

Descendants

Died 25 Oct 1531 at about age 41 in Cheshire, England [uncertain]

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Biography

George Booth, Esq., son and heir of William Booth, Knt., and his first wife, Margaret Ashton^[1][2] (or Assheton), was born about 1490, (aged 29 in 1519, when his father died),^[3][4] probably at Dunham-Massey, Cheshire, where his father held lands. When George was young, his mother died (date unknown). His father remarried to Dorothy Mongomery. From this marriage George gained eight half-siblings.^[1][3]

Sir Thomas Ashton, George's grandfather, died in 1514, leaving George, son of his daughter Margaret (deceased), along with his other two daughters, Elizabeth and Alice, as his heirs.^[5][6] George's father died in 1519 and George was his main heir.^[2][5]

George married Elizabeth Boteler, daughter of Thomas Boteler, Knt.,^[1][2][5] and Margaret Delves.^[3] The date of their marriage is unknown and is estimated. George and Elizabeth had three sons and seven daughters:

• George, Esq.,^[1][3] son and heir^[2]
• John, who left issue^[1][2][3]
• Robert^[2][3] (not named in 1580 Visitations)
• Ellen, wife of John Carington^[1][2][3]
• Anne, wife of William Massy, Esq.^[1][2][3]
• Margaret, wife of William Davenport, Knt.^[1][2][3]
• Elizabeth, wife of Richard Sutton, Esq.^[1][2][3]
• Dorothy, wife of Robert Tatton, Esq.^[1][2][3]
• Alice, wife of Peter Daniell, Esq.^[1][2][3]
• Cecily,^[3] died without issue,^[2] leaving a will dated 27 December 1557

George died on 25 October 1531.^[3][5] His widow, Elizabeth, survived him. George left a will dated 6 October 1531.^[3][7] His son, George, aged 15 years, was his heir. In his will, George also left lands to his son, John.^[5][7]

In the chapel of his grandfather, Sir George Booth, in the Bowdon church, in Bucklow Hundred, there was on a marble stone "with brasse about it the picture of a man and woman, engraven in brasse, with theire children as followeth":^[8]

"Of your charity pray for the soules of George Bouthe, esq. and Elizab. his wife, dau. of s'r Tho. Butler, of Bewsey, kt. w'ch Geo. and Eliz. had togather, at ye ty'e of the death of ye s'd Geo. 3 sones, Geo. Jo. and Rob't, and 7 daugh. Ellen, Anne, Marg't, Eliz. Dorothy, Cicely, and Alice, w'ch Geo. dyed 25th Octob. 1531, and lyeth under this stone, on whose soules Jesu have mercy. Amen."

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10} The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580, The Publications of The Harleian Society, Vol. 18. London: The Society, 1882, pp. 36-37. Google Books.
2. ↑ ^{2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12} George Ormerod. The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, Vol. 1. London: Lackington, Hughes, 1819, p. 396, 402. Archive.org: Dunham-Massy
3. ↑ ^{3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Vol. I. Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2013, p. 438, BOOTH 16.
4. ↑ Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd ed., Vol. I. Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2011, p. 259, BOOTH 13. Google Books.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4} W. Glover. History of Ashton-under-Lyne and the Surrounding District. J. Andrew & Co., 1884, pp. 71-73, 115-117. Google Books
6. ↑ William Farrar, et al, eds. "The parish of Ashton-under-Lyne: Introduction, manor & boroughs" in A History of the County of Lancaster, Vol. 4. London: 1911, pp. 338-347. British History Online.
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} G J Piccope, ed. Lancashire and Cheshire Wills and inventories from the ecclesiastical court, Chester. Vol. 1. Chetham Soc., 1857, pp. 49 (will of Cecily Booth); 93-97. Google Books: Will of George Booth, Esq.
8. ↑ Ormerod, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, Vol. I, p. 396. Archive.org

• Baines, Edward. History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster. (New York: Fisher, Son & Co., 1836). Online at Archive.org, vol. 2 page 532: Ashton.

Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

This profile was re-reviewed for the Magna Carta Project on 9 December 2022 by Thiessen-117.

George Booth Esq. appears in Magna Carta Ancestry in a Richardson-documented trail from Gateway Ancestor Thomas Booth to Magna Carta Surety Baron Robert FitzWalter (vol. I, pages 258-261 BOOTH). This trail, set out in the Magna Carta Trails section of the Gateway's profile, was project-approved/badged in April 2016 by a Magna Carta project member.

See Base Camp for more information about identified Magna Carta trails and their status. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".