Brief Life History of Eunice
When Eunice Booth was born on 5 March 1694, in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, John Booth Jr., was 33 and her mother, Mary Dodson, was 38. She married Capt. Thomas Barden on 9 June 1720, in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 7 January 1769, in Hanover, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 74, and was buried in Church Hill Cemetery, Norwell, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Unice Booth, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Eunice Booth Bardin, "Find A Grave Index"
- Eunice Booth, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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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.
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