Loretta del Booth

Loretta de Barton

• Father: Grelley
• Mother: Agnes Barton
• Partner: John del Booth Marriage: about 1292

Children

1. Thomas Booth. Married Ellen Worsley.
2. Robert Booth

Biography

'Townships: Barton', in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 4, ed. William Farrer and J Brownbill (London, 1911), pp. 363-376. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol4/pp363-376 [accessed 1 September 2023].

Gilbert, the eldest son of William and Cecily, was a minor in 1220 at the death of his grandmother Edith, but had livery of his lands two years later; (fn. 25) he adopted Barton as a surname, and was made a knight. He fell into the hands of Aaron, the Jew of York, (fn. 26) and parted with large portions of his lands, (fn. 27) and finally sold his great lordship to Robert Grelley his feudal superior. (fn. 28) This sale was confirmed by his son John. (fn. 29) Gilbert retained or regained the manor of Barton, but this was given to his daughter Agnes, (fn. 30) perhaps in view of her marriage with a Grelley, (fn. 31) and her daughter and heir Loretta by marriage with John del Booth, about 1292, carried it into a family which, as Booth of Barton, retained it for 300 years.

He was succeeded by his son Robert; (fn. 37) in or before 1343 Robert was followed by his son Thomas del Booth, (fn. 38) who died, apparently by violence, (fn. 39) in 1368, having directed his body to be buried before the altar of St. Katherine in Eccles Church. (fn. 40)

• 31. It appears that Agnes was married to John Grelley, whose place in the Grelley pedigree is unknown; for Loretta, daughter of John Grelley, was in 1292 a plaintiff in a Barton case; Assize R. 408, m. 4

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Notes for John del Booth and Loretta de Barton
https://websites.umich.edu/~bobwolfe/gen/mn/m31848x31849.htm

Loretta, the heiress of Barton, was perhaps still unmarried in June 1292, at which time she, as daughter of Agnes daughter of Sir Gilbert de Barton, released her lands in Barton to her trustee, Ralph de Monton, chaplain; De Trafford D. no. 210. No direct proof of the marriage with John del Booth has been met with, but it may be assumed from the descent of the lands; Loretta is not heard of again. [1]

John de Booth was reportedly married to Agnes, daughter and heir of Gilbert de Barton, Lord of Barton, Lancashire [An error, Agnes was apparently the mother of Loretta, the wife of Thomas] and son of Thomas de Booth and grandson of William Booth and Sibell, daughter and heir of Gilbert de Brereton. William was reportedly the son of Adam de Booth. [4] [5]

References

• 1 "Townships: Barton," in A History of the County of Lancaster, Vol. IV, ed. William Farrer and J Brownbill (Victoria County History, London, 1911) pp. 363-376. British History Online
• 2 (Genealogy of the Booth Family in England and the United States, Walter S. Booth, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1892)
• 3 A history and genealogy of the families of Bayard, Houstoun of Georgia: and ... By Joseph Gaston Baillie Bulloch Pg.49 < GoogleBooks >
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Barton-420
• Robert and Janet Chevalley Wolfe, Janet and Robert Wolfe Genealogy, "Notes for John del Booth and Loretta de Barton" Webpage: http://www.umich.edu/~bobwolfe/gen/mn/m31848x31849.htm cites
  • [1] Edward Baines, History of the county palatine and duchy of Lancaster Vol. 3 (1836), 113, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
  • [2] Edward Baines, John Harland, ed., The History of the county palatine and duchy of Lancaster Vol. 1 (1868), 583, [HathiTrust].
  • [3] William Farrer and J Brownbill, eds. The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster, Vol. 4 (London: Constable and Company Limited, 1911), 363, [InternetArchive].
  • [4] A.R. Maddison, ed., Lincolnshire Pedigrees, Vol. 10 (London: Publications of the Harleian Society, 1902), 153, Booth of Killingholme, [GoogleBooks].
  • [5] Thomas Wotton, Edward Kimber and Richard Johnson, The baronetage of England: containing a genealogical and historical account, Vol. 1, (London, 1771), 18, [InternetArchive], [GoogleBooks].