Jane (Booth) Holford (abt. 1510 - aft. 1545)

Born about 1510 in England

Ancestors

Descendants

Died after 5 Nov 1545 after about age 35 in England

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Biography

Jane, also known as Joan, was the daughter of Sir William Booth and his second wife Ellen Montgomery.^[1][2][3][4] Her birth date is uncertain. An article by Donald Lines Jacobus in The American Genealogist suggests a birth date of about 1500^[5] but it seems unlikely to have been this early, given that she had six children by her second husband whom she married in 1539.^[2][3]

Marriages and Children

Jane/Joan married twice. Her first husband was Hugh Dutton of Dutton, Cheshire.^[2][3][6] Marlyn Lewis names his parents as Piers Dutton and Eleanor Leigh and gives a marriage date of 1530, but the sources he cites do not give any dates - as so often - and there is no indication of where he got the 1530 year from.^[7] Donald Lines Jacobus suggests a marriage date of 1520, again with no source.^[5] Hugh Dutton was the son of Piers Dutton of Hatton and Dutton, Cheshire.^[4] They were the parents of the Anne Dutton, daughter of Hugh Dutton, who is recorded in the Cheshire Visitations as marrying her stepbrother Christopher Holford.^[8][9]

Jane's second husband was Thomas Holford.^{[2][3][4][5][6][8]} Their marriage licence, which showed cousin relationships, was dated 28 June 1539.^[2][3] They had six children:

• George^[2][3][8]
• Thomas^[2][3]
• John^[2][3][8]
• Ellen, who married John Carrington^[2][3][8]
• Dorothy, who married John Bruen^{[2][3][8][10]} (Jacobus wrongly gives her birth date as 1530,^[5] nine years before the date of the licence for Jane's second marriage).
• Elizabeth, who married Charles Mainwaring^[2][3][8]

Death

Ellen was living on 5 November 1545,^[2][3] when she is referred to in the Inquisition Post Mortem for her first husband's father,^[6] so she died after that.

Sources

1. ↑ Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), Vol. I, p. 259, BOOTH 12, 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} Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 344, BRUEN 15, Google Books
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} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), Vol. I, p. 586, BRUEN 15
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} George Ormerod. The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, Vol. I, 1819, p. 402, Internet Archive
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3} Donald Lines Jacobus. Ancestry of Obadiah and Mary Bruen in 'The American Genealogist', Vol. 26, 1950, p. 21. Online w/subscription at AmericanAncestors.org.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2} Memorials of the Duttons of Dutton in Cheshire, H Southern & Co, 1901, p. 216, Internet Archive
7. ↑ Marlyn Lewis. 'Our Royal, Titled, Noble and Commoner Ancestors', entry for "Jane (Joan) Booth"
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6} John Paul Rylands (ed.). The Visitation of Cheshire made in the Year 1580...., Harleian Society, 1882, p. 125, Internet Archive
9. ↑ Peter Leycester. Historical Antiquities in Two Books, the First Treating in General of Great-Bretain and Ireland, the Second Containing Particular Remarks Concerning Cheshire ..., transcript in Gilbert Cope, Genealogy of the Dutton Family of Pennsylvania, Higginson Genealogical Books, 1871, p. 26, Internet Archive
10. ↑ George Ormerod. The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, Vol. II, London, 1819, p. 175, Internet Archive

See also:

• 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. See also WikiTree's source page for "Magna Carta Ancestry".
• Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. Salt Lake City: the author, 2013. See also WikiTree's source page for ‘’Royal Ancestry’’.
• Harleian Society. The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580, The Publications of The Harleian Society (London: The Society, 1882) Vol. 18, Page 36 "Jane (Bouth) vxor Hugh Dutton of Dutton."
• Weis, Frederick Lewis. Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who came to America before 1700, 8th edition, Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, p. 41, line 33, entry 38
• Weis, Frederick Lewis. The Magna Carta Sureties, 5th edition, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1999, p. 128, line 97, entry 14

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