When Martha Booth was born about 1863, in Harwood, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Booth, was 37 and her mother, Elizabeth Crook, was 33. She married James Morris on 8 October 1902, in Lancaster, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. She lived in Little Bolton All Saints, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom for about 20 years and Bolton le Moors St Peter, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1911. She died in December 1925, in Bolton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 63.
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The Bacup Natural History Society was established in 1878 in Lancashire. It holds a collection of over 4,000 photos, slides, and documents. It holds many different artifacts from military to fossils.
School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
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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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