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- [S520] Booth, Walter Sherman, Genealogy of the Booth family in England and the United States, 11-12.
Sir William^ Booth (George,™ George,"* William,™ George?
William? Robert? John? Thomas? John? Thomas? William?
Adam1
), of Dunham, Knight, son of Sir George Booth, was but
three years old when his father died, and, therefore, was in ward
to the King. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Warburton,
ofAirley, Cheshire, Knight. He became Sheriff of Chester
1571, and was knighted 1578, and died September, 1579, in his
39th year. He was buried at Bowden. His wife died December,
1628. They had seven sons and six daughters:
i. George, bona about 1567, was but 12 years old when his father died.
He was knighted when of age and succeeded to the estate of his
father. He was twice High Sheriff of Cheshire and of Lancashire.
He married twice and his second wife was a daughter of Judge
Anderson of the King's Bench. He had five sons and seven daughters.
William, the eldest son, died before his father, but his son
George (grandson of Sir George) succeeded him as heir. He was the
first Lord Delamere. His son Henry, second Lord Delamere, succeeded
to the peerage and became very famous in English history.
He was knight of the shire, custos rotulorum, and memoer of several
Parliaments. He favored the Bill of Exclusion, guarding the Protestant
succession, for which he was thanked by Lord Russell on the
morning of that nobleman's execution. In the latter years of
Charles II., and after the accession ofJames II., he was twice committed
to the Tower, and, at length, tried under the last named
tyrant for high treason, and unanimously acquitted by the court of
twenty-seven peers. Afterward he retired to Dunham Massey until
the Revolution, when he was one of a committee of three noblemen,
appointed by the Prince of Orange, to demand of James that he
remove from Whitehall. He was made Privy Counsellor, Chancellor
of the Exchequer, and was created Earl of Warrington in 1687.
George, his son, succeeded him as third Lord Delamere and second
Earl of Warrington, but his only issue was Mary, who married
Rt. Hon. Henry Grey. Earl of Stamford, and the line became extinct.
MARY.
Alice.
Edward (or Edmund), a lawj-er, who died without issue.
John, died 1644, leaving three sons and one daughter.
Robert, an officer of the army, died 1628.
Richard, i* the fifth son, baptized in 1578, married a Massey ofCogshill
in Cheshire, and died in 1628. From him the Boothes of Barrow,
in Cheshire, and (tradition says) of New England, U. S. A., are
descended.
Eleanor, who married a Panton.
Susan, who married Edward Warren.
Dorothy, who married Broughton.
The other children were: William, who died before his father; Peter,
who died young; and Elizabeth. The last two are not mentioned in
Lady Stamford's genealogy, and probably died in infancy.
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Hollier & Dufilho Family History
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