Elizabeth Booth

Brief Life History of Elizabeth

Elizabeth Booth was born in September 1697, in Gloucester, Gloucester, Virginia, United States. She married John Hans Mordecai Cooke about 1725, in Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She died in 1783, in Gloucester, Virginia, United States, at the age of 86.

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Family Time Line

John Hans Mordecai Cooke
1690–1776
Elizabeth Booth
1697–1783
Marriage: about 1725
Lucy Elizabeth Cook
1727–1794
Giles Cooke
1728–1799
Hannah Cooke
1741–
Mordecai Cook
1751–1815
Elizabeth Cooke
1752–
Thomas Booth Cooke
1754–1809

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  • Descendants of Mordecai Cooke, of "Mordecai's Mount," Gloucester, Va 1650 and Thomas BOOTH of Ware Neck Gloucester Va, 1685 ... Stubbs, William Carter, 1846-1924.

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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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