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52 Ancestors: Week 6, John and Elizabeth (Davis) Booth

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John Booth, son of John and Elizabeth (_____) Booth, was born in London, England 6 December 17911,2 and died in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah 19 February 1874.3,4 He married first in Norton le Moors, Staffordshire, England 16 July 1810, Elizabeth Davis,2,5 daughter of William and Ann (_____) Davis. She was born in Hanley, Staffordshire, England 23 October 17936 and died in St. Louis, Missouri 4 July 1849.7 He married second in Iowa about 1850, Catherine Hunt. He married third in Salt Lake City 19 April 1852, Mary Perrin.8 He married fourth, Elizabeth (Allen) Dunn.

John was baptized at St. Marylebone in London on Christmas Day 1791.1 He would eventually go to Staffordshire, perhaps where his family originated. There he would marry Elizabeth Davis and have several children in Burslem. About 1830, they would move to Reading, Berkshire, and by 1834 they were in St. Luke's Parish, Middlesex (now part of Greater London). John was a clockmaker. In 1841, he is recorded as such on the census for St. Luke's with his wife and three children (Sarah, Esther, and Nathaniel).9 He was baptized as a Latter-day Saint that year on 13 September 1841.10

In 1849, the Ladder-day Saints would begin their journey to Utah. John Booth's journal gives a near day-by-day account of the trip aboard the Henry Ware. They departed Liverpool on 5 February 1849 and arrived in New Orleans 9 April 1849.2,11 From there, they made there way up the Mississippi River to St. Louis and then to Kanesville, Pottawattamie County, Iowa (now Council Bluffs), arriving 25 May 1849.2 In July 1849, his wife and three of his sons died.10 He remarried by 1850 Catherine Hunt, a fellow Henry Ware passenger, with whom we find him in the census for Pottawattamie County along with his youngest son Nathaniel.12

John joined his son William Booth in the James W. Cummings Company which departed for Utah Territory 1 July 1851. Catherine would not survive the journey; she died in Nebraska Territory 18 August 1851 after a period of illness. The company would arrive in Salt Lake City 7 October 1851.13,14,15 He married Mary Perrin a few months later in Salt Lake City 19 April 1852.8 John would remain there for the rest of his life, and we find him on the 1860 and 1870 censuses for the city's 10th Ward.16,17 He would marry a fourth time to Elizabeth (Allen) Dunn; she is recorded with him in these final two censuses.

Children of John and Elizabeth (Davis) Booth:2

  1. Elijah Booth, b. 31 January 1811.
  2. Henry Booth, b. 22 November 1812.
  3. William Booth, b. 7 October 1814.
  4. Harriet Booth, b. 7 May 1816.
  5. Elijah Booth, b. 16 July 1818.
  6. John Booth, b. 7 July 1820.
  7. Elizabeth Booth, b. 17 March 1822.
  8. Jonathan Booth, b. 13 October 1823.
  9. Ann Booth, b. 20 August 1825.
  10. Richard Booth, b. 17 January 1827.
  11. Sarah Booth, b. 22 November 1828.
  12. Mary Ann Booth, b. 19 December 1830.
  13. Eliza Booth, b. 24 August 1832.
  14. Ester Booth, b. 29 April 1834.
  15. James Booth, b. 18 November 1835.
  16. Nathaniel Booth, b. 21 September 1837.

  1. St. Marylebone Parish (London, England), Parish Registers, 1779-1798, chronological entries, baptism of John Booth, 25 December 1791; digital images, Ancestry, "London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812" > Westminster > St Marylebone: Marylebone Road > 1779-1798 > image 452; citing London Metropolitan Archives, reference no. P89/MRY1/081.↩

  2. Journal of John Booth; digital images uploaded to FamilySearch by Tara Parker Scott. Journal contains entries from his journey to Utah from England in 1849, vital records of his immediate family, and various entries from 1857. The journal passed to his son Nathaniel Booth and his descendants. Some of the entries pertaining to Nathaniel's family were added later in a different hand. Current whereabouts are unknown.↩

  3. Salt Lake County, Utah, Record of Deaths, p. 155, entry 6173, John Booth, 19 February 1874; digital images, FamilySearch, DGS 4139616 > image 310.↩

  4. "Died," The Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah), 25 February 1874, p. 9, col. 5, obituary of John Booth; digital images, Newspapers.com.↩

  5. Norton le Moors Parish (Staffordshire, England), Parish Registers, Marriages, 1794-1812, unnumbered page, John Booth-Elizabeth Davies, 16 July 1810; digital images, FindMyPast, image 69.↩

  6. Hanley Parish (Staffordshire, England), Parish Registers, Baptisms, 1789-1803, p. 85, Elizabeth Davis, baptized 27 October 1793; digital images, FindMyPast, image 50. John Booth's journal records her date of birth as 20 October 1793 instead of 23 October 1793. Hanley was only 2 miles from Burslem where most of their children were born.↩

  7. "A Biographical Sketch of the Life of Esther Jane Booth, Bell", account presumably written by one of Esther's children; digital images uploaded to FamilySearch. The pedigrees recorded by Esther's children consistently record the same details of Elizabeth (Davis) Booth's death.↩

  8. "Married," The Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah), 1 May 1852, p. 3; digital images, Utah Digital Newspapers.↩

  9. 1841 census of England, Co. Middlesex, Finsbury, St. Luke's Parish, folio 46 recto, p. 36, lines 4-8; digital images, Ancestry, "1841 England Census" > Middlesex > St Luke > City Road > District 8 > image 19; citing PRO HO 107/666/4.↩

  10. Lynne Watkins Jorgensen, "The First London Mormons: 1840-1845: 'What Am I and My Brethren Here For?'" (1988), Theses and Dissertations, no. 4841; digital images, BYU ScholarsArchive.↩

  11. Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New Orleans, 1820-1902, Henry Ware manifest, 9 April 1849, "Jno Booth, Elizabeth do., Esther do., Nathaniel do."; digital images, FamilySearch, DGS 4882450 > image 491; citing NARA microfilm M259, roll 30.↩

  12. 1850 U.S. census, Pottawatomie County, Iowa, population schedule, sheet 156, p. 311 (penned), District 21, dwelling 1475, family 1475; digital images, FamilySearch, DGS 4181055 > image 319.↩

  13. "Transcript for Alfred Cordon Emigrating Company journal, 1851 June-September," Church History Biographical Database, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.↩

  14. "Transcript for John D. T. McAllister journals, 1851-1906, Reminiscences, 1851-1853, 6-7," Church History Biographical Database, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.↩

  15. "Transcript for Levi Hammon Emigrating Company journal, 1851 June-September," Church History Biographical Database, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.↩

  16. 1860 U.S. census, Great Salt Lake County, Utah Territory, population schedule, p. 72, 10th Ward Great Salt Lake City, dwelling 462, family 17; digital images, FamilySearch, DGS 5171491 > image 148.↩

  17. 1870 U.S. census, Salt Lake County, Utah Territory, population schedule, p. 4, 10th Ward Salt Lake City, dwelling 31, family 30; digital images, FamilySearch, DGS 4267907 > image 560.↩