When George Booth was born about 1875, in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Samuel Booth, was 41 and his mother, Rose Ann Binney, was 42. He married Ellen Nellie Bruce on 1 April 1900, in Brightside, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He lived in Attercliffe, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1901. He died in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom.
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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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