description

My own life and my opinions are shared at When I was 69.

REMEMBER: In North America, the month of September 1752 was exceptionally short, skipping 11 days, when the Gregorian Calendar was adapted from the old Julian one, which didn't have leap year days.

Thursday, February 11, 2021

Hannah Wilcoxson Booth, 8gg 1665-1701

This week I'm focusing on the Booth Family tree.


Long before Valentine's Day became Madison Avenue's darling, Hannah Wilcoxan was born on Feb. 14, 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, John 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, age 13 in 1678, or 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 (Photo by Gary Brougham, showing 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 her sister, Elizabeth Beer's granddaughter, Elizabeth Beers Booth (1721-1780).  So these were my 4-times great grandparents, who had grandmothers who were sisters. There are also cousins who married each other who also lived in New England in the Granger line of my other grandmother's ancestry tree.

NameBornDiedMarriedChild born  Child name
Anthony Beers 1620-16791646/7

Elizabeth Firmin Beers1620-1689
1658/60Barnabus Beers






Barnabus Beers1658/60-17141688

Elizabeth Wilcoxson Beers1666-1694
1693Josiah Beers






Josiah Beers 1693-17631717

Elizabeth Uffort Beers1698-1783
1721ELIZABETH BEERS Booth






ELIZABETH BEERS Booth1721-17801743

Zachariah Booth Jr.1721-1775


_______________________










John Wilcoxson 

1656

Elizabeth Bourne Welles Wilcoxson 1625-1668
1665Hannah Wilcoxson Booth 






Joseph Booth Sr, Deacon 1656-17031686

Hannah Wilcoxson Booth 1665-1701
1693Zachariah Booth Sr.






Zachariah Booth Sr.1693-17621718

Anna Curtis Booth 7g1697-1733
1721Zachariah Booth Jr.






Zachariah Booth Jr.1721-17751743

ELIZABETH BEERS Booth1721-1780



This post belongs to the Barbara Booth Rogers Family Tree. Photo shows Mataley Mozelle Rogers, and her mother Mozelle Booth Miller, and my sister Mary Beth Rogers.

No comments:

Post a Comment

Looking forward to hearing from you! If you leave your email then others with similar family trees can contact you. Just commenting falls into the blogger dark hole; I'll gladly publish what you say just don't expect responses.