Brief Life History of Richard Junius
When Richard Junius Booth was born on 21 June 1819, in London, England, United Kingdom, his father, Junius Brutus Booth Sr, was 23 and his mother, Marie Christine Adelaide Delanney, was 30. He married Sarah Pearson Ware on 31 December 1849, in Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 16 December 1868, in London, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 49, and was buried in Camden, London, England, United Kingdom.
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Sources (19)
- Richard Junius Booth, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Richard I. Booth, "Maryland County Marriages, 1658-1940"
- Richard Junius Booth, "England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007"
Spouse and Children
1819–1868 Male
1820–1868 Female
Children (1)
1850–1890 Male
Parents and Siblings
1796–1852 Male
1790–1858 Female
Siblings (3)
1770–1840 Male
1815–1816 Female
1819–1868 Male
World Events (8)
1820 · Making States Equal
Age 1
1823
Age 4
1834 · Removal of Menagerie from the Tower of London
Age 15
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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