John Booth (abt. 1602 - 1678)

Born about 1602 in Cheshire, England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Dorothy (Saint John) Booth — married about 1633 in England

Husband of Anne (Gobert) Booth — married 15 Oct 1657 in Chester, Cheshire, England

Descendants

Died 4 May 1678 at about age 76 in Cheshire, England

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Biography

John Booth, Knt., youngest son of George Booth, Knt., and his second wife, Katherine Anderson,^[1] was born about 1602.^[2][3] His father held lands at Dunham-Massey, Cheshire,^[4] where John was likely born.

John married first to Dorothy Saint John, daughter of Anthony Saint John, Knt.,^[5] and ________ Aubrey.^[2] They had two sons:

• George, Esq.,^[2] son and heir; died 1719, aged 84, leaving issue ^[5]
• St. John, Knt., married Anne Owen and had issue;^[5] he was baptized 8 January 1636 and died 3 December 1687^[2]

His wife, Dorothy, was buried in January 1655/6 at Great Budworth, Cheshire.^[6]

John remarried to Anne Gobert, widow of Thomas Legh,^[4] Esq., and daughter of John Gobert of Bosworth, Lincolnshire.^[5][7] Although Richardson only lists Anne's husbands Thomas Legh and John Booth, John was likely Anne's third husband. When she married John, she was probably called Anne Rigby and was the widow of Alexander Rigby.^[8] A 15 October 1657 marriage record is found for the marriage of John Booth, Esq., to Anne Rigby, widow, at St. Oswald, Chester, Cheshire.^[9] John and Anne had no children.^[2][5]

John was knighted in 1660. Before 1671, the manor of Woodford was sold to John by the Maistersons of Nantwich.^[5]

John died on 4 May 1678^[2] and was buried 15 May 1678 at St. Oswald, Chester, Cheshire.^[10]

Sources

1. ↑ Pedigrees Made at the Visitation of Cheshire, 1613. Kendal, etc., 1879, p. 28. Archive.org.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Vol. I. Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2013, p. 440, BOOTH 20.
3. ↑ Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), volume I, page 261, BOOTH 17.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} George Ormerod. The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, Vol. 1. London: Lackington, Hughes, 1819, p 402. Archive.org: Dunham-Massy
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5} George Ormerod. The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, Vol. 2. London: Lackington, Hughes, 1819, p. 100. Archive.org
6. ↑ "England, Cheshire Parish Registers, 1538-2000," database, (FamilySearch: 10 December 2017), John Booth in entry for Dorothy Booth, 15 Jan 1655, Burial; citing item 3, Great Budworth, Cheshire, England, Record Office, Chester; FHL microfilm 2,262,979.
7. ↑ James Croston. The Register Book of Christenings, Weddings, and Burials with the Parish of Prestbury in the county of Chester, 1560-1636, Vol. 5. The Record Society for the Publication of Original Documents Relating to Lancashire and Cheshire, 1881, p. 186 (see footnote). Archive.org.
8. ↑ George Ormerod. The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, Vol. 3. London: Lackington, Hughes, 1819, p. 334. Archive.org: Legh
9. ↑ "England, Cheshire Parish Registers, 1538-2000," database, (FamilySearch: 10 February 2018), John Booth and Anne Rigby, 15 Oct 1657, Marriage; citing item 1 p 129, St Oswald, Chester, Cheshire, England, Record Office, Chester; FHL microfilm 2,068,352.
10. ↑ "England, Cheshire Parish Registers, 1538-2000," database, (FamilySearch: 10 February 2018), John Booth, 15 May 1678, Burial; citing item 2 p 73, St Oswald, Chester, Cheshire, England, Record Office, Chester; FHL microfilm 2,068,352.

• Axon, Ernest. "The Family of Bothe (Booth) and the Church in the 15th and 16th Centuries," in Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, Vol. 53. 1938, pp. 32-82. Not available online.

Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

This profile was re-reviewed for the Magna Carta Project on 5 December 2022 by Thiessen-117.

John Booth 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".