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Cork / Re: Booth and Fox Cork
« on: Wednesday 01 February 17 20:51 GMT (UK)  »
Hi RosyBooks,
As near as I can make out you are my 4th cousin once removed given that John Peter Booth is your 3 x Great grandfather.
Thanks for the reply, jmol and I had become aware of this wedding which is correct despite the misspelling (if you put on a thick accent Emirs is phonetically perfect for Amos!) when the Irish parish registers were issued some months ago.
It was curious because I found the wedding and let jmol know but then went away for some days meanwhile she had found the baptism of 3 of the children some 3 weeks prior to the wedding at the same church. Still haven't worked that one out!

Many thanks for thinking of us and do let me know if there is any information we can provide you with about other parts of the Booth family. You probably have some other information that may be helpful to us from your own researches but historically the Booths do not really seem to have been a "close" family. I'll be in touch later if that's ok when I have gathered my thoughts.

Regards

jgb113

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Cork / Re: Booth and Fox Cork
« on: Thursday 26 February 15 16:22 GMT (UK)  »
Hello all who view this thread,
jmol17 and I have a common interest in Amos Booth and also Booth & Fox, I hate to disappoint Pinkfoot2 and Celtic Liberty but your Booth line is not related to that connected to the Company or to the Booths who came from Derbyshire
For lemmontart "Greetings long distant cousin" To explain John Booth of Chapel-en-le-Frith Derbyshire had 3 sons and many daughters John Peter Booth (b. 1805)  left CelF for Ireland in the late 1820s/early 30s  and was joined by his Bro in Law Adam Fox (wife Mary Booth married 1832 in Manchester) In Partnership they established Booth & Fox which ran as a successful Company well into the 20th century making bedding, inventing the down quilt and providing these type of goods throughout the Empire.
John Peter's brother Amos also went to Ireland in the mid 30s where he probably traded as a feather dealer which was his calling when he returned to Manchester in h 1850s. We do not know if he worked for Booth & Fox or was a supplier a mystery. Both jmol17 and I are descendents of Amos albeit of different sons.
The formal partnership between the owners was legally disolved in the late 1850s (London Gazette)   but both families still had members who were involved in running the business, the Booth involvement tapered off later in the 19th century  but the Fox family who were cousins of the Booths carried on the business.
There are lots of references to the company on the web but I have not been able to establish when it ceased trading or what happened to the company archives.
In Derbyshire the Booths and Foxes were much entwined since Hannah, wife of the original John Booth, after several years a widow married Adam Fox her husbands executor and father of her daughter Mary's husband so becoming mother in law as well as mother to her daughter.

I think I had better stop there. There is a lot of info. available about the Fox family in Derbyshire.

jgb113

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Waterford / Re: Amos Booth and Anastasia
« on: Tuesday 24 May 11 18:02 BST (UK)  »
I too am looking for information about this wedding and anything about Amos' time in Waterford, his third son George was my G.G.father, he cut himself off from the family after they returned to Manchester.
The brother in Cork who founded Booth & Fox was in fact John Peter, the eldest bro., George stayed in Derbyshire and was farming before moving into cattle dealing. The Fox part of the Company was Adam Fox who was their brother in law who had married sister Mary.

I have a bit more information and would be happy to exchange it if agreeable

jgb113

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