On my mother's side...

Happy birth anniversary to 8X great grandmother, Hannah Wilcoxson Booth.  She was born Feb 14, 1665 in Stratford,  Fairfield County, Connecticut.

I posted the following about her life when celebrating her birthday last year. And I note that her name is spelled Wilcoxon, Willcoxson, Wilcoxan and a few other variations.

Feb. 14.

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

One of my cousins in the Booth line of my family tree posted some interesting information about the Wilcoxsons...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, John Welles.  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. (NOTE, the household may have included the younger of the 7 Welles children when their mother remarried to John Wilcoxson.)

Hannah married 18 years after her mother's death, when she was 21, in 1686 to Joseph Booth, Jr,. a Deacon who was 30 years old. 

Both Hannah and Joseph's families had immigrated to the colonies, and had lots in early Stratford.  There's a map with the families' names indicating where they lived.

They had 7 children which are listed on the Booth marker in the cemetery, a tall obelisk with BOOTH at the base, for Joseph and Hannah, and the children, in the Old Congregational Burying Ground in Stratford, CT. 

Hannah's youngest son, David, was born in 1700. Then she died 10 July 1701, at age 35., (though her marker says she was 38. ) Husband, Joseph Booth may have remarried (according to one biographer) but he died himself in 1703. **

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Old Congregational Burying Ground, Stratford, CT

**Sorry, blogger is doing this font change on me again...changing the size, color and type face.  Gadzooks.  
It should say:
They had 7 children who are listed on the Booth Marker,  a tall obelisk with Booth at the base, for Joseph and Hannah, and the chilldren in the Old Congregational Burying Ground in Stratford, Fairfield County, CT
Hannah's youngest son, David, was born 1700. Then she died in 1701.