Brief Life History of Elizabeth
When Elizabeth Booth was born on 1 May 1719, in Ashover, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Robert Booth, was 29 and her mother, Elizabeth Hawksley, was 19. She married Joseph Berrisford on 5 March 1738, in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 29 June 1777, in Ashover, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 58, and was buried in Ashover, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom.
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- Elizabeth Booth, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Elizabeth Booth, "England Marriages, 1538–1973 "
- Elizabeth in entry for Hannah Berrisford, "England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991"
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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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