Mary Booth

Brief Life History of Mary

When Mary Booth was born on 1 May 1820, in Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, James Booth, was 29 and her mother, Lydia Forwood, was 27. She married Sharpless Green on 30 September 1841, in Booths Corner, Bethel Township, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Bethel Township, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States for about 20 years and Booths Corner, Bethel Township, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880. She died on 30 May 1904, in United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Boothwyn, Upper Chichester Township, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Family Time Line

Sharpless Green
1820–1877
Mary Booth
1820–1904
Marriage: 30 September 1841
William M Green
1842–1843
Nelson Clayton Green Sr.
1843–1907
Lydia Green
1847–1897
Charles Green
1850–1937
Saml Arthur Green
1850–1860
Phebe A Green
1852–1917
Martha C "Mattie" Green
1858–1920
Francis Harvey Green
1861–1951

Sources (12)

  • Mary Green in household of Sharplek Green, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Mary Green, "BillionGraves Index"
  • Green in entry for George L. Standbridge and Mollie C. Green, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"

World Events (7)

1821 · Financial Relief for Public Land

A United States law to provide financial relief for the purchasers of Public Lands. It permitted the earlier buyers, that couldn't pay completely for the land, to return the land back to the government. This granted them a credit towards the debt they had on land. Congress, also, extended credit to buyer for eight more years. Still while being in economic panic and the shortage of currency made by citizens, the government hoped that with the time extension, the economy would improve.

1825 · The Crimes Act

The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

Name Meaning

English (northern): topographic or occupational name from Middle English bothe (Old Danish bōth) ‘temporary shelter, such as a covered market stall or a cattle-herdsman's hut’. The latter sense was predominant in the Pennines of Lancashire and Yorkshire, where there were many cattle farms or vaccaries, and whose subdivisions were known as ‘booths’. The principal meaning of the surname there was therefore probably ‘cattle herdsman’, ‘man in charge of a vaccary’, and thus identical with Boothman . Elsewhere it may have denoted a shopkeeper who owned a temporary market stall, but no evidence has been found to confirm this use of the surname. In the British Isles the surname is still more common in northern England, where Scandinavian influence was more marked, and in Scotland, where the word was borrowed into Gaelic as both(an).

History: Robert Booth (1604–72) is mentioned in the colonial records of Exeter, NH, in 1645. He subsequently moved to ME.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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