Brief Life History of Fanny
When Fanny Booth was born on 1 December 1890, in Grassmoor, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Booth, was 25 and her mother, Martha Johnson, was 16. She lived in Hasland, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years and North Wingfield, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom in 1911.
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- Fanny Booth in household of Thomas Booth, "England and Wales Census, 1891"
- Legacy NFS Source: Fanny Booth - Government record: birth-name: Fanny Booth
- Fanny, "England, Derbyshire, Church of England Parish Registers, 1537-1918"
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1904 · The Entente Cordiale
The Entente Cordiale was signed between Britain and France on April 8, 1904, to reconcile imperial interests and pave the way for future diplomatic cooperation. This ended hundreds of years of conflict between the two states.
1908
London, United Kingdom hosts Summer Olympic Games.
1921 · British Unemployment Reaches Post-War High
British unemployment reached a post-war high in July 1921 of 2.5 million people.
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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