Hannah Wilcoxan Booth

Happy birthday.

Long before Valentine's Day became Madison Avenue's darling, Hannah Wilcoxan was born on this date in 1665 in Stratford, Connecticut. Her parents were John and Elizabeth Bourne Wells Wilcoxan.

One of my cousins in the Booth line of my family tree posted some interesting information about the Wilcoxans...starting with Hannah's father, John.

The oldest son of WILLIAM & MARGARET (BIRDSEYE) WILCOXSON, he came with his parents to New England in 1635 and to Stratford in 1639. He married first Joannah Titterton before 1664 and they were the parents of two sons, John & William Wilcoxson.

He was listed as one of the Freemen of Stratford on Aug. 4, 1669. He was a Deacon of the Stratford Church. After Joannah's death and the death of his father, John moved with his mother and step-father, Daniel Hayden, to Killingworth in the Colony of Conn. It was there that he met and married Elizabeth (Bourne) Welles, widow of...John Welles, , son of Governor Thomas Wells.  They were married on March 19, 1663 in Killingworth, Conn.

John & Elizabeth returned to Stratford where they appear in church records. They were the parents of four daughters, Patience Wilcoxson, Hannah (Wilcoxson) Booth...Elizabeth (Wilcoxson) Beers, and Mary Wilcoxson. John lived in the center of Stratford on Main Street across from the Meeting House and his two sons lived beside him.

His will gave to his son-in-law, Barnabus Beers... half an acre of his home lot in Stratford; to his son, John, his dwelling house and the rest of his home lot. His inventory was taken November 17, 1690.

I noticed that Hannah's younger sister, Mary didn't live but a year, and her mother, Elizabeth had died the year Mary was born,  1668. Elizabeth had 7 children (maybe not all lived) with her first husband.  Then she had 6 Wicoxan babies. She was 43 when she died, and daughter Hannah was just 3 with younger sister, Elizabeth,    just 2.  But the oldest Welles daughter was 15.

Hannah married 10 years after her mother's death, when she was 21, in 1686 to Joseph Booth, Jr,. a Deacon who was 30 years old.  They had 7 children which are listed on the Booth marker in the cemetery, a tall obalisk with BOOTH at the base, for Joseph and Hannah, and the children, in the Old Congregational Burying Ground in Stratford, CT.

Hannah Booth by Gary Brougham, clarifying the date of death in July, not June. Originally published on Find A Grave

Hannah's younger sister, Elizabeth Wilcoxson Beers, was born in 1666, and married Barnabus Beers in 1688.  It looks as if they had 8 children.  That's a lot of cousins!  But I've got a connection to Barnabus Beers as well...He and Elizabeth are my 8 times great grandparents.

As I mentioned before, Hannah's grandson Zachariah Booth (1721-1775) married Elizabeth Beer's granddaughter, Elizabeth Beers Booth (1721-1780).  So these were my 4-times great grandparents, who had grandmothers who were sisters.

Name	Born	Died	Married	Child born	Child name
Anthony Beers	1620-	1679	1646/7
Elizabeth Firmin Beers	1620-	1689		1658/60	Barnabus Beers
Barnabus Beers	1658/60-	1714	1688
Elizabeth Wilcoxson Beers	1666-	1694		1693	Josiah Beers
Josiah Beers	1693-	1763	1717
Elizabeth Uffort Beers	1698-	1783		1721	ELIZABETH BEERS Booth
ELIZABETH BEERS Booth	1721-	1780	1743
Zachariah Booth Jr.	1721-	1775
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John Wilcoxson			1656
Elizabeth Bourne Welles Wilcoxson	1625-	1668		1665	Hannah Wilcoxson Booth
Joseph Booth Sr, Deacon	1656-	1703	1686
Hannah Wilcoxson Booth	1665-	1701		1693	Zachariah Booth Sr.
Zachariah Booth Sr.	1693-	1762	1718
Anna Curtis Booth 7g	1697-	1733		1721	Zachariah Booth Jr.
Zachariah Booth Jr.	1721-	1775	1743
ELIZABETH BEERS Booth	1721-	1780