• General Notes

  [David Oliver Smith.ged]
  
  The married daus of Sir William Booth were
  
  1a  Elizabeth, m William Basnet, of Eaton, Denbighshire.
  2a  Dorothy, m Ralph Bunnington, of Barrowcote, Derbyshire.
  3a  Eleanor, m John Panton, Brunslip, Denbighshire, from whom descended the family of Duke of Benhall, Suffolk, ext 1732 (see Complete Baronetage and EDB).
  4a  Susan, m 1stly Sir Edmund Warren, of Poynton, Cheshire, and m 2ndly John Fitton, of the city of Chester.
  
  The Booths of Dunham Massey
  The Booth family of Dunham Massey trace their ancestry back to early medieval times when their name appears in several different forms, including Bouth, Booths and Bothe. Around 1275 William de Booths had married Sibel, daughter of Sir Ralph de Brereton, in 1474 John Legh of Booths was married to Raufe Egerton, and by Tudor times, the family had married into most of the neighbouring aristocratic families. For example, Sir William Booth (1540-1579) married Elizabeth Warburton of Arley, and yet another George Booth (1515-1543) was married to Elizabeth de Trafford.
  One daughter of the family also married into the Grey family - it was of that same family that the unfortunate Lady Jane Grey came, before she fell prey to Henry VIII's axeman. Thus the family extended their influence and power base in the county.
  Certainly the Booths held many lands in the area around this time, as evidenced in the House of Commons Journal of the 30th July 1660 which passed "?a Bill to enable Sir George Booth Baronet to lease and sell Lands, for Payment of his Debts, and raising Portions for Advancement of his younger Children".
  This same Sir George Booth had fought for the Parliamentarian cause during the First Civil War and was elected MP for Cheshire in May 1645. He was also elected to the First Protectorate Parliament in 1654 and was commissioned to assist the Major-Generals in Cheshire. However, he appears to have fallen out of favour when he described them as 'Cromwell's hangmen' and by 1659 was plotting with Royalists to bring about the Restoration.
  He headed an abortive insurrection during the summer of 1659, which was easily defeated, Booth was arrested and briefly imprisoned in the Tower of London but was soon released on bail.
  In April 1660, Booth was elected to the Convention Parliament. He was one of twelve MPs appointed to convey Parliament's invitation to Charles II to return as King. It was also granted "That the Sum of Ten thousand Pounds be conferred on Sir George Booth Baronet, as a Mark of Respect unto him, for his eminent Services and great Sufferings for the Publick". At the King's coronation in April 1661, Booth was made Lord Delamere. In the 18th century the Booths were also created Earls of Warrington.
  It is recorded that the Dunham Massey deer park had existed in 1362 and it is known that the moat, which today partly survives as the ornamental lake, once surrounded the old Manor House, which was possibly a Norman motte and bailey castle before then.

Details of Susan's family with Edward WARREN