Sir William Booth, Kt.

Sir William Booth, Sheriff of Chester & Lancashire was born on 4 August 1540 at of Durham-Massey, Cheshire, England.[1] [3]

He was the son Son of George Booth Esq and Elizabeth Trafford. After his father's death, his mother married James Done of Utkinton, esq., and when widowed by the death of James, Elizabeth was married for a third time, to Thomas Fitton, esq

Sir William Booth, Sheriff of Chester & Lancashire left a will on 25 November 1579. He died on 28 November 1579 at age 39. [1] His estate was probated on 10 December 1579. [1]

Family

He married Elizabeth Warburton, daughter of Sir John Warburton and Mary Brereton, circa 1563 at of Warburton, Cheshire, England.

They had 7 sons (Sir George; Edmund; John; Robert; Peter; Richard; & William) & 6 daughters (Mary; Elizabeth, wife of William Basnet, & of (Mr.) Walshe; Dorothy, wife of Ralph Bunington; Alice, wife of Mr. Panton; Eleanor; & Susan, wife of Sir Edmund Warren, & of John Fitton).[4]

William and Elizabeth had thirteen children:[5]

• 1. William who died without issue[6];
• 2. Edward/Edmund;[7]
• 3. Sir George Bouth of Dunham, knt baronett, aged 45 in 1612, died 1652 aged 86, was married to 1) Jane, the daughter and heir to John Carrington, in 1577, with whom he had no children, and 2) Katharina, the daughter of Edmund Anderson, "Justic Com Banco miles 2da mar's"[7] [6];
• 4. John;
• 5. Robert;
• 6. Peter who died without children;
• 7. Richard;
• 8. Mary;
• 9. Elizabeth, who was married to William[?] Bassett [postea...Walsh][7];
• 10. Dorothy, who was married to [Radulphi] Boughton[7];
• 11. Alice;
• 12. Ellenor, who was married to ? Panton[7];
• 13. Susan/Susanna, who was married to Edward Warren of Poynto, knt[7].

Citations

[S15] George Edward Cokayne, editor, The Complete Baronetage, 5 volumes (no date (c. 1900); reprint, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1983), volume I, page 14. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Baronetage.

[S134] Heraldic Media Ltd., online http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/, Patrick Cracoft-Brennan (Cracroft Peerage Database v5.2), downloaded 1 November 2006.

[S22] Sir Bernard Burke, C.B. LL.D., A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, new edition (1883; reprint, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1978), page 60. Hereinafter cited as Burkes Extinct Peerage.

[S344] Burke's Peerage and Gentry, online http://www.burkes-peerage.net. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Gentry.

[S229] Burke John and John Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England (1841, reprint; Baltimore, Maryland, USA: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1985), page 73. Hereinafter cited as Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England.

Sir George Booth, Sheriff of Chester & Lancashire1,2

Last Edited 17 May 2013

M, #143531, b. 20 October 1566, d. 24 October 1652

Father Sir William Booth, Sheriff of Chester & Lancashire1,2 b. 4 Aug 1540, d. 28 Nov 1579

Mother Elizabeth Warburton1,2 d. a 4 Jan 1620

Sir George Booth, Sheriff of Chester & Lancashire was born on 20 October 1566 at of Durham-Massey, Cheshire, England.1,2 He married Jane Carrington, daughter of John Carrington, Esq. and Ellen Holford, on 18 February 1578; No issue.1,2 Sir George Booth, Sheriff of Chester & Lancashire married Katherine Anderson, daughter of Sir Edmund Anderson, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and Magdelena Smith, circa 1590; They had 5 sons (William, Esq; Francis; Thomas; Edmund; & Sir John) & 7 daughters (Mary; Alice, wife of George Vernon, Esq; Frances; Susan, wife of Sir William Brereton; Katherine; Cecily; & Elizabeth, wife of Richard Byron).2 Sir George Booth, Sheriff of Chester & Lancashire died on 24 October 1652 at Durham-Massey, Cheshire, England, at age 86; Buried at Bowdon, Cheshire.1,2

Family 1

Jane Carrington b. 10 Dec 1562

Family 2

Katherine Anderson b. c 1568, d. 13 Feb 1638

Child

Sir John Booth2 b. 1602, d. 4 May 1678

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Citations

[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 260.

[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 438.