Brief Life History of Martha
When Martha Booth was born about 1747, in Albemarle Parish, Surry, Virginia, British Colonial America, her father, George Booth, was 70 and her mother, Lucy Gilliam, was 35. She married Independence Porch Sr in 1779, in Mecklenburg, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters.
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Spouse and Children
1743– Male
1747– Female
Children (5)
1784– Male
1787–1872 Male
1795–1882 Male
1797– Female
1805–1888 Female
Parents and Siblings
1679–1763 Male
1714– Female
Siblings (7)
1738–1775 Male
1740– Male
1745–1803 Male
1745– Male
1747– Male
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World Events (1)
1775
Age 28
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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