When Mary Booth was born on 19 October 1790, in British North America, her father, Isaac Booth, was 24 and her mother, Thirza Wing, was 11. She had at least 7 sons and 6 daughters with Sala Blancher. She died on 14 March 1833, in Leeds, Upper Canada, British North America, at the age of 42.
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Upper Canada 1792 divides Ontario into 19 counties. On September 17 the first Parliament of Upper Canada assembled.
The Rear of Leeds & Lansdowne : the making of community on the Gananoque River frontier, 1796-1996
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.
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