Boosey Family and the Sandemanian Church

See the Boosey Family and the Sandemanian Church category for profiles.

1 Introduction
2 History of the Boosey family
3 Links to other Sandemanian families
- 3.1 Marriages
- 3.2 Apprenticeships
4 Sandemanians and the publishing trade
5 Pre Sandemanian links
6 Boosey Family and the Sandemanian Church
7 Links to other pages

Introduction

Robert Sandeman

The Sandemanian church is a non-conformist protestant movement which began in Scotland in 1730’s and spread into England and to the USA. The church was founded by John Glas (1695-1773) (and is also known as the Glasite Church) but much of the teaching was developed and promoted by his son-in-law Robert Sandeman (1718-1771), who founded churches in England and in North America.

The churches were close knit communities, and many families were members of the church for several generations.

See the Boosey Family category for individual profiles.

This page is part of the History of Nonconformists in London and surrounding counties, part of the TopicsTeam, a topic of the England Project.

History of the Boosey family

Nathaniel Boosey (1702-1775) lived and died in Bocking, Essex England and was a malterster. He had 8 children who survived to adulthood. He was a wealthy man and gave property and money to his children in his will when he died. He was a nonconformist and was buried in the Bocking Independent Burial ground. His third son

John Boosey left Bocking and moved to London. He set up a lending library and book publishing business in London. He joined the London Sandemanian church in 1765 and became a deacon and an elder. He married Mary Livermore in 1765 in London. Her family were also from Essex and her brother had joined the Sandemanians. John was also an elder at the Sandemanian Church in Old Buckenham, Norfolk. He had 2 children and both their children were listed as Sandemanians in the London congregation. When Mary Livermore died leaving 2 small children, John married Mary (Hawker) Chater (1730-) who was a widow, having been married to John Chater (abt.1734-abt.1771) another Sandemanian preacher. They married in September 1772 and he was described as a widow from Old Buckingham, Norfolk. His father Nathaniel Boosey died in 1775 and John was the only child not to be mentioned in the will, so there may have been conflict with his father.

Thomas Boosey was born in 1767. Thomas was friends with John Juniper, who left Thomas £20 in his will, stating they were both Sandemanians ^[1]. His father John Boosey had been selling the essence of peppermint that John Juniper was producing.

Thomas Boosey, the son of Thomas Boosey was born in 1795 and was member of the London Sandemanian Church. He married Elizabeth Chater in 1816. She also came from a Sandemanian family and she was also a church member. Thomas was a Deacon and later an Elder in the church. They had 14 children and many of them married within the church, to other Sandemanian families.

Elizabeth Boosey married Patrick Sandeman Reid (1819-1897) who was from a Sandemanian family in Newcastle. She was not on the London membership list.

Mary (Boosey) Reid became a Sandemanian and married another Reid brother, Christian John Reid JP (1816-1891).

Thomas Boosey (1820-1839) became a Sandemanian just before he died, aged 19.

Hannah Chater Boosey did not become a member and died young, aged 19

Caroline Boosey became a Sandemanian and married Charles Blair Leighton who was also a Sandemanian.

Frances Boosey became a Sandemanian in 1841

Harriet Boosey became a Sandemanian in 1843

Rachel Boosey also became a Sandemanian in 1843 and married her cousin William Boosey

Charlotte Boosey (1830-1910) became a Sandemanian in 1860

John Boosey (1831-1893) did not join the church

Ellen Boosey did not join the church but did married another Reid brother, Andrew Reid

Edward Cunningham Boosey did not join the church

Emily Boosey became a Sandemanian in 1860 and married George Buchanan, a Sandemanian from Edinburgh in 1864

Mary Boosey was born about 1769, the daughter of John Boosey and Mary Livermore. Mary married Edward Barnard in 1791 who became an elder in the London Church and the nephew of John Barnard who was one of the founders of the London Sandemanian meeting house. She became a Sandemanian member in 1796 and she was buried in Bunhill Fields, a nonconformist burial ground.

Links to other Sandemanian families

Marriages

Mary Boosey married Edward Barnard in 1791

Thomas Boosey married Elizabeth Chater in 1816

Two sisters married into the Reid family, the men were cousins:-

Elizabeth Boosey married Patrick Sandeman Reid in 1844

Mary Boosey married Christian John Reid in 1840

Caroline Boosey married Charles Blair Leighton in 1849

Ellen Boosey married Andrew Reid

Emily Boosey married George Buchanan in 1864

Apprenticeships

According to Masters and their Apprentices list, John and Thomas both had apprentices

The lists include

Master	Occupation	Apprentice	Date Bound	Date Freed
Boosey John	Bookseller	Boosey Thomas S	5 march 1782	9 Jan 1792
Boosey John		Leighton William	4 May 1789	.
Boosey Thomas		Wanostrocht Vincent	5 December 1796	9 January 1804
Boosey Thomas		Wass Benjamin	10 January 1803

This shows that Boosey John had his son as an apprentice but also Leighton William who was the son of Archibald Leighton a member of the Sandemanian Church. Boosey Thomas had two apprentices. The first was Wanostrocht Vincent who may have been a Sandemanian because Two of his daughters married sisters from the Chater family, another Sandemanian family. The second apprentice was Benjamin Wass is may be related to John Wass who was an Elder in the church, born 1751, admitted into the church 1783 and died 1831.

In 1809 Thomas Boosey (1795-1871) began an apprenticeship with William Limbery Grosvenor

Sandemanians and the publishing trade

Many of the families associated with the London Sandemanian church had links with the book trade. John Boosey (abt.1736-1820) established a book publishing business and lending library in the 1760's, with a specialism in books from europe. His son Thomas Boosey continued the business

Sandemanians_and_the_publishing_trades including the Boosey family.

Pre Sandemanian links

Mr Boosey had John Barnard as an apprentice in 1712, when he paid the dues for an apprentices indenture. ^[2]

Both families were from Essex