Brief Life History of Martha Ann
When Martha Ann Booth was born on 17 October 1824, in Elbert, Georgia, United States, her father, Victor E Booth, was 17 and her mother, Elizabeth Catherine Parham, was 19. She married Andrew Jackson Shaw on 22 January 1848, in Elbert, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Oglethorpe, Georgia, United States for about 10 years and Georgia, United States in 1870. She died in 1908, in Cobb, Georgia, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Kemp Cemetery, Marietta, Cobb, Georgia, United States.
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- Martha Shaw in household of Andrew Shaw, "United States Census, 1850"
- Martha Ann Booth, "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950"
- Martha Ann Boothe Shaw, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1832
Historical Boundaries 1832: Cobb, Georgia, United States
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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