A Booth Family of Simmondley (Hare & Hounds).


Generation One.

There are no records available of when George and Peggy Booth were born or married but the date stone upon it signals that they built what became the Hare & Hounds, Simmondley in 1784. George had an alehouse licence from 1789 until his death. They had eight identified children:
     Nancy Booth.
     Isaac Booth.
     Abraham Booth born about 1778.
     Charles Booth born about 1783.
     Jesse Booth born about 1786.
     Edward Booth born 24 May 1788.
     Beatrice Booth, born about 1791. In the1841 census she is recorded as aged 50 living with Jesse and his family.
     John Booth, born 15 June 1792, baptised 22 August 1792 in Charlesworth Congregational Chapel. Obviously died before his father as he is not mentioned in the will.
George Booth died on 12 November 1819 in Simmondley. Peggy inherited the Hare and Hounds, the estate to be split between the seven surviving children after her death.

Generation Two.

Nancy Booth married Robert Marshall, a blacksmith born about 1763 in Simmondley, on 5 February 1789 in Glossop Parish Church. They had five identified children:
     Betty Marshall, born 1 January and baptised 18 February 1790 in Charlesworth Congregational Chapel.
     John Marshall, born 15 March 1792, baptised 15 April 1792 in Charlesworth Congregational Chapel.
     Ann Marshall, baptised 18 April 1797 in Charlesworth Congregational Chapel.
     Mary Marshall, baptised 12 November 1799 in Charlesworth Congregational Chapel. She married Henry Hague on 28 May 1837 in St Michael, Ashton Under Lyne. Henry predeceased her as she is recorded in the censuses of 1851 and 1861 as a widowed farmer of Simmondley.
     Robert Marshall born 1 January 1804.
Nancy must have predeceased Robert as the 1841 census lists him as aged 75, blacksmith at Simmondley with wife Betty 65. Then years later he was a widowed former blacksmith aged 88, living with Mary.
Robert Marshall died aged 88 and was buried on 15 December 1781 at Charlesworth Congregational Chapel.

Abraham Booth was born about 1778. He was described as a cotton spinner in his father's will and as a shopkeeper in his own will. After his mother died he inherited the Hare & Hounds, which was run by daughter Mary and her husband Moses Dewsnap. He married Betty Harrop, born about 1783, on 4 November 1802 in Glossop Parish Church and they had five identified children:
     Mary (Mally) Booth born 7 November 1802.
     William Booth, born and baptised 7 October 1813 in Charlesworth Congregational Chapel.
     Ann Booth born 20 October 1816.
     Ruth Booth, baptised 18 September 1820 in Glossop Parish Church, died 13 March 1821, aged 11 months and buried at Charlesworth Congregational Chapel.
     John Booth, born 13 September 1822, baptised 10 April 1823 in Charlesworth Congregational Chapel, died 27 February 1825 in aged 2 years and 5 months, buried in Charlesworth Congregational Chapel.
Abraham Booth died aged 72 on 30 March 1850 in Simmondley and was buried on 4 April 1850 at Charlesworth Congregational Chapel.
Betty died aged 72 on 16 June 1855 and was buried at Charlesworth Congregational Chapel.

Charles Booth was born about 1783. The 1841 census recorded him aged 56, of independent means living at Rose green. Then years later he was a cotton spinner at Rose green. He married Mary Newton, born about 1784, on 24 November 1803 in Glossop Parish Church. They had eight identified children:
     Nancy Booth born 2 March 1804.
     William Booth, born 14 June and baptised 9 July 1806 in Charlesworth Congregational Chapel.
     Joseph Booth, born 12 January and baptised 14 February 1810 in Charlesworth Congregational Chapel, died 12 January 1831, buried at Charlesworth Congregational Chapel (aged 21 of Rose green).
     John Booth, born 2 May and baptised 23 May 1813 in Charlesworth Congregational Chapel.
     Mary Booth, baptised 12 June 1816 in Glossop Parish Church.
     Hannah Booth born 10 December 1819.
     Elisha Booth, baptised 27 December 1822 in Glossop Parish Church. Elisha was not mentioned in his father's will so must have predeceased him.
     Lois Booth born 20 April 1827.
Charles Booth died aged 68 on 20 June and was buried on 29 June 1851 at Charlesworth Congregational Chapel.
Mary died on 21 October and was buried on 25 October 1853 at Charlesworth Congregational Chapel (aged 69 of Green Vale).

Jesse Booth was born about 1786. He is recorded in the 1841 census as a picker maker at Hall Street, Glossop. He married Betty Howe, born about 1796, on 7 February 1825 in Glossop Parish Church.
Betty Howe had a daughter before she married Jesse.
     Elizabeth Howe (who became known as Elizabeth Booth) was born on 18 March 1820 in Rowarth and baptised on 24 June 1820 in Marple Bridge. She married Samuel Higginbottom, born 16 March and baptised 11 May 1818 in Littlemoor chapel (son of James Higginbottom and Martha Higginbottom), on 12 May 1846 in Glossop Parish Church. Samuel was buried on 28 November 1849 at Glossop Parish Church. He was described as a cotton spinner when he married Elizabeth but as an auctioneer of High Street, Glossop, on her MI. Elizabeth Higginbottom appears on the 1851 census as a widow of 31, a Grocer at Market Street, Howardtown. She married John Chatterton, a machine printer of Dinting, baptised 3 October 1823 in Hayfield parish church (son of Thomas Chatterton), on 24 October 1853 in Glossop Parish Church. In the 1871 census they were living at 18 Mill Street, Glossop.
Elizabeth died aged 58 on 13 June 1877 and was buried at Charlesworth Congregational Chapel.
Jesse and Betty had three identified children:
     Harriett Booth, baptised 22 August 1825 in Glossop Parish Church, died aged 25 on 15 April 1851, buried at Charlesworth Congregational Chapel.
     Maria Booth, baptised 27 November 1828 in Glossop Parish Church, died aged 23 on18 April 1851, buried at Charlesworth Congregational Chapel.
     John Booth, born about 1832.
Betty died aged 40 on 6 March 1836 and was buried at Charlesworth Congregational Chapel.
Jesse Booth died aged 56 on 22 December 1842 and was buried at Charlesworth Congregational Chapel.
On the MI for George & Betty at Charlesworth Congregational Chapel is the legend Also Harriet Elizabeth Watkinson their Granddaughter, died March 1857, aged 4 weeks. Civil registration records give no maiden name for Harriet's mother.

Edward Booth was born on 24 May 1788 in Simmondley and baptised on 13 September 1788 in Charlesworth Congregational Chapel. He is described in parish registers as of Hobroyd, Simmondley & Newton, Weaver & bookkeeper (sometimes as Ned). He married Clarissa Robinson born 11 May 1787, baptised 25 June 1787 in Glossop Parish Church (daughter of John Robinson and Mary Booth), on 13 February 1816 in Manchester Cathedral.
Clarissa had a daughter before she married:
     Ruth Robinson, baptised 27 June 1814 in Glossop Parish Church. She married (as Ruth Booth, a spinster of 2 Mulberry Street, father Edward Booth, schoolmaster) Job Fletcher, born about 1814 (son of Thomas Fletcher) on 8 Oct 1837 in Manchester Cathedral. They had a son, Job Fletcher, born in 1838 in Hyde but Job senior died the same year.
Edward and Clarissa had four identified children:
     George Booth.
     Ann Booth, baptised 25 July 1819 in Glossop Parish Church.
     Betty Booth, born 27 July 1822, baptised 22 December 1822 in Charlesworth Congregational Chapel.
     John Booth, born 6 April 1826, baptised 25 June 1826 in Charlesworth Congregational Chapel.
Clarissa died before June 1828 as Edward remarried. He married Mary Bateman, born about 1797 in Newton Moor, Cheshire, on 28 June 1828 in Stockport parish church. They had one identified daughter:
     Sarah Booth, born about 1836 in Flowery Field, Hyde, baptised 8 April 1837 in Mottram in Longdendale.

Generation Three.

Son of Nancy Booth.

Robert Marshall was born on 1 January and baptised on 2 February 1804 in Charlesworth Congregational Chapel. A blacksmith at Simmondley with his father, he married Betty Bennett and they had eight identified children:
     Edwin Marshall, born 5 November 1826, baptised 11 February 1827 in Charlesworth Congregational Chapel.
     Thomas Marshall born 19 January 1829.
     Ebenezer Marshall, born 19 May 1831 in Glossop, baptised 21 August 1831 in Charlesworth Congregational Chapel.
     Eliza Marshall, born 4 July 1835 in Glossop, baptised 24 January 1836 in Charlesworth Congregational Chapel.
     Robert Marshall, born about 1838 in Glossop.
     William Marshall, born about 1841 in Glossop.
     Ann Marshall, born 1843 in Glossop.
     Lavinia Marshall, born 1845 in Glossop.

Daughters of Abraham Booth.

Mary (Mally) Booth was born on 7 November and baptised on 21 November 1802 in Charlesworth Congregational Chapel. She married Moses Dewsnap, born 4 April 1796, son of Samuel Dewsnap and Hannah Hill (see Dewsnap family of Hargate Hill and Simmondley), on 6 January 1829 in Glossop.

Ann Booth was born on 20 October 1816 and baptised on 9 February 1817 in Littlemoor chapel. She had a second baptism on 18 September 1820 in Glossop Parish Church. She married Caleb Hill, born 16 March 1807, baptised 23 April 1807 in Charlesworth Congregational Chapel (son of James and Mary Hill), on 20 October 1834 in Glossop Parish Church. They had eight identified children:
     John Hill, born 1841 in Glossop.
     William Hill, born 1844 in Glossop.
     Mary Hill, born 1846 in Glossop, died aged 5yrs 11 mths and buried on 18 September 1852 in Charlesworth Congregational Chapel.
     Betty Hill, born 1849 in Glossop, died aged 3 and buried on 1 September 1852 in Charlesworth Congregational Chapel.
     Thomas Hill, born 1851 in Glossop, died aged 14 days and buried 9 May 1851 in Charlesworth Congregational Chapel.
     Samuel Hill, born 1852 in Glossop.
     Harriet Hill, born 1855 in Glossop.
     Caleb Hill, born 1858 in Glossop.
Ann Booth died aged 51 and was buried on 12 June 1868 at Charlesworth Congregational Chapel.
Caleb Hill died aged 82 in 1890.

Daughters of Charles Booth.

Nancy Booth was born on 2 March and baptised on 1 April 1804 in Charlesworth Congregational Chapel. She married David Bridge, born about 1799 in Mellor, on 2 January 1836 in Manchester Cathedral. They had three identified children:
     Hannah Bridge, born 1837 in Glossop.
     Sarah Bridge, born 1839 in Glossop.
     Lois Bridge, born 1843 in Glossop.
In the 1861 census David Bridge is listed as a grocer and draper in High Street, Glossop and in the 1871 census as a grocer at 209 High Street East.

Hannah Booth was born on 10 December 1819 and baptised on 9 October 1825 in Glossop Parish Church. She had one child.
     Ellis Booth, born about 1842 in Glossop. In the censuses of 1861 and 1871 he is recorded as Eli.

Lois Booth was born on 20 April and baptised on 14 May 1827 in Glossop Parish Church. She married Rowland Cotton, a stone mason, born 1821 in Almondbury, Yorkshire, on 24 June 1852 in Glossop Parish Church and they had seven identified children:
     Charles Cotton, born 1852 in Glossop, died 1854 in Glossop age 1.
     John Cotton, born 1854 in Glossop, died 1854 in Glossop.
     Charles Cotton, born 1856 in Glossop, died 20 May 1863 in Glossop, buried in Charlesworth Congregational Chapel aged 7.
     Mary Cotton, born 1860 in Glossop, died 1861 in Glossop age 1.
     Harriet Cotton born 31 March 1862.
     Thomas Cotton, born 1865 in Glossop, died 1866 in Glossop.
     Joseph Cotton, born 1867 in Glossop, died 1867 in Glossop.
In the 1861 census the family was living at High Street, next to David and Nancy Bridge, and in the 1871 census at 203 High Street East.
Rowland Cotton died aged 52 on 6 October 1873 and was buried in Charlesworth Congregational Chapel.
Lois is recorded in the censuses of 1881, 1891 and 1901 as a widow living at 205 High Street East living on her own means. Saville Shaw (her son in law) is listed as head of the household in 1901.
Lois died on 25 December 1904 and was buried in Charlesworth Congregational Chapel.

Son of Jesse Booth.

John Booth was born about 1832 in Glossop. In the 1851 census he is recorded as a 19 year old power loom weaver living with his half sister Elizabeth Hegginbottom. Ten years later he was a furniture dealer at High Street, Glossop where he had a servant named Elizabeth Watkinson, born about 1825 in Macclesfield. John and Elizabeth married later in 1861 at Shrewsbury St. Methodist Chapel, Glossop. John briefly became licensee of the Drover's Arms at Charlestown before moving, in 1864, to become licencee of the Prince of Wales Inn at 14 Milltown, where he was recorded as a 39 year old grocer in the 1871 census and as a publican in 1881 and 1891.
Elizabeth died, aged 58, in 1883
John remarried, to Hannah Monks, born about 1855, on 31 December 1884 in Glossop Parish Church and they had one child:
     Harriet Maria Booth was born on 24 September and baptised on 5 December 1886 in Glossop Parish Church. She became a dressmake and married William Cooper, a 28 year old paper maker of 40 Duke Street (son of Arthur John Cooper), on 15 November 1913 in St James', Whitfield.
Hannah died in 1891 and in the following year John retired and left the Prince of Wales. John and Harriet were living at 81 High Street East when he married for the third time to Ann Buckley, a widowed tobacconist of Hollincross Lane, born about 1842 in Glossop (daughter of Thomas Higginbottom). They subsequently moved to 39 Duke Street.
John Booth died aged 82 in 1914
Ann died aged 74 in 1916.

Son of Edward Booth.

George Booth was baptised 19 May 1816 in Glossop Parish Church. He became a printer and stationer with a business at 3 Market Street, Hyde. He married Mary Holliday of Woolley Bridge, born about 1816 (daughter of James Holliday), on 16 July 1837 in Glossop Parish Church. They had five identified children:
     Sabina Booth, born 1838 in Hyde.
     John Booth, born 1840 in Hyde.
     Jane Hannah Booth, born 1843 in Hyde.
     Anna Maria Booth, born 1845 in Hyde.
     Mary Emma Booth, born 1847 in Hyde.
Mary died in 1850 in Hyde.

Generation Four.

Son of Robert Marshall.

Thomas Marshall was born on 19 January and baptised on 22 March 1829 in Charlesworth Congregational Chapel. A mechanic, he married Sarah Charlesworth, born about 1833 in Glossop. They had three identified children:
     Alice Marshall, born 1853 in Glossop.
     Joe Marshall, born 1855 in Glossop.
     Elizabeth Marshall, born 1856 in Glossop.

Daughter of Lois Booth.

Harriet Cotton was born 31 March 1862 in Glossop. She married Saville Shaw, born 1864 in Glossop (son of William Henry Shaw and Hannah Booth), on 17 February 1890 in Glossop and they went to live with Harriet's mother, Lois Cotton, at 205 High Street East. They had two children:
     Lois Hannah Shaw born 10 March 1891.
     Mary Beatrice Shaw, born 20 December 1894 in Glossop. Mary continued to live in the family home. She died aged 65 on 4 May and was buried on 7 May 1959 at Charlesworth Congregational Chapel.
Saville Shaw died aged 44 in 1908 in Glossop.
Harriet died aged 82 on 7 September and was buried on 9 September 1944 at Charlesworth Congregational Chapel.

Generation Five.

Daughter of Harriet Cotton.

Lois Hannah Shaw, born 10 March 1891 in Glossop. She married Fred Bradbury, a police constable, born 25 June 1889, in 1945 in Glossop. They lived at 203 High Street East and had one child:
     John Cotton Bradbury, born 1 June 1924 in Glossop, died 3 March and buried 18 March 1970 at Charlesworth Congregational Chapel.
Lois died 25 June 1941, buried 27 June 1941 in Charlesworth Congregational Chapel.
Fred Bradbury died in 4 April and was buried on 8 April 1974 at Charlesworth Congregational Chapel.



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