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Monday, August 13, 2018

William Lewis Booth and Abigail's children mix up

William Lewis Booth and wife, Abigail had at least 2 children who lived to adulthood.  I may have found records of other children.

The Sixth St. Presbyterian Church of New York baptism records (see below) indicate a couple of possible errors in transcription...where maybe a child was listed with the wrong parents.  And since this is the only link I've found (so far) to perhaps give this child these parents...it's pretty staggering.

The first blast of error is when the original was typed into the index...where the Booth name came out BOOTS.  It is clear enough penmanship in the original, so the typist really goofed.  But then I look at the names of the children, and whoa! One who is substantiated elsewhere has been given another parent's name next to it.  Charles Henry was definitely the child of William Lewis and Abigail Booth...but this entry has as his parent someone named something like Saul Bruton.  Now that name is almost illegible so how is it that the very next entry is a child belonging to the Boots, who were really William and Abigail Booth.

Charles Henry's baptism was July 1841.
The entry written above his was for July 9, 1840, for a Lewis Frederic with William and Abigail Booth listed as his parents.
The entry below Charles Henry's baptism was for Deforest Mannis (also translated as Maurice) and the parents are listed as William and Abigail Booth.  His baptism date was given as Nov. 9, 1841.

So how likely is it that the Booths would have one child born in July and then one born in Nov. of the same year?  But perhaps they had just joined the church and wanted their sons baptized, though not in the same year...since other records indicate Charles had not been born in 1841, but in 1828. And Lewis Frederic Booth was born in 1839, though not baptized until 1840.

These children were all listed by the same scribe, and not in the years that the entries represent, but I'm pretty sure were all written at the same time.

There was a Y. E. Benton as a parent, who sometimes is listed with a wife as Mary.  The parents could have been mixed up in the transcription from the original notes, perhaps by the minister, or maybe the clerk of the congregation.


But the question remains, was the last name of these children Booth, or Benton, or Bruton, or something else?  Since they appear here in Ancestry, they also appear as children of Booths (the ones I'm interested in.  So did they grow up and marry someone and have children of their own?  If I can find them with the mistaken names, what does that mean?  Charles Henry was a Booth, at least by lots of records and children he had.  The only strange thing I've found about him so far was a record that he was born in Petersburg VA.  It is almost impossible to believe the family went to VA for his birth, rather than western NY.





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