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Educated at [[Macclesfield Grammar School]], Booth married in 1548 Ellen Davenport, daughter of [[Bromley-Davenport|John Davenport]] of [[New Hall, Woodford|Woodford]], Cheshire, having with other issue five sons. The eldest, John Booth (1554–1621) married Isabel Lowndes, whose family were seated nearby at [[Smallwood, Cheshire]].<ref name=”Burke’s Peerage 2003, p. 427″>”Burke’s Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage”, 107th edition, vol. 1, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke’s Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 427</ref>

Educated at [[Macclesfield Grammar School]], Booth married in 1548 Ellen Davenport, daughter of [[Bromley-Davenport|John Davenport]] of [[New Hall, Woodford|Woodford]], Cheshire, having with other issue five sons. The eldest, John Booth (1554–1621) married Isabel Lowndes, whose family were seated nearby at [[Smallwood, Cheshire]].<ref name=”Burke’s Peerage 2003, p. 427″>”Burke’s Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage”, 107th edition, vol. 1, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke’s Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 427</ref>

His second son Thomas Booth (died 1624), [[Constable of Chester|Constable]] of [[Chester Castle]], was grandfather of [[William Booth (Royal Navy officer)|Captain Sir William Booth]], Commissioner of the Royal Navy (1688–89)<ref>[[Dictionary of National Biography|DNB]], Charnock’s Biography. Nav. i. 387</ref> and his cousin, George Booth (1515–1543), of [[Dunham Massey]] was grandfather of [[Booth baronets of Dunham Massey (1611)|Sir George Booth, 1st Baronet]] and [[High Sheriff of Cheshire]].<ref name=Ormerod>”The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester” by [[George Ormerod]] and Thomas Helsby, 2nd edition, George Routledge & Sons, London 1882, pages 515 & 516.</ref> The [[Booth baronets of Allerton Beeches (1916)|Booth baronets of Allerton Beeches]] (”cr.” 1916) descend via a [[cadet branch]] of his family which in the 18th century settled at [[Orford, Cheshire|Orford, Lancashire]] and then [[Liverpool]], where they became established as [[shipowner]]s.<ref>[https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/artifact/booth-line-shipowners www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk]</ref>

His second son Thomas Booth (died 1624), [[Constable of Chester|Constable]] of [[Chester Castle]], was grandfather of [[William Booth (Royal Navy officer)|Captain Sir William Booth]], Commissioner of the Royal Navy (1688–89)<ref>[[Dictionary of National Biography|DNB]], Charnock’s Biography. Nav. i. 387</ref> and his cousin, George Booth (1515–1543), of [[Dunham Massey]] was grandfather of [[Booth baronets of Dunham Massey (1611)|Sir George Booth, 1st Baronet]] and [[High Sheriff of Cheshire]].<ref name=Ormerod>”The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester” by [[George Ormerod]] and Thomas Helsby, 2nd edition, George Routledge & Sons, London 1882, pages 515 & 516.</ref> The [[Booth baronets of Allerton Beeches (1916)|Booth baronets of Allerton Beeches]] (”cr.” 1916) descend via a [[cadet branch]] of his family which in the 18th century settled at [[Orford, Cheshire|Orford, Lancashire]] and then [[Liverpool]], where they became [[shipowner]]s.<ref>[https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/artifact/booth-line-shipowners www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk]</ref>

After the accession of [[Elizabeth I]], Booth renovated the medieval [[timber-framed]] [[manor house]], establishing Twemlow Hall as the [[family seat]] for next 300 years.<ref>[https://ia904506.us.archive.org/4/items/historyofancient00earw/historyofancient00earw.pdf John Parsons Earwaker, ”The History of the Ancient Parish of Sandbach”, 1890]</ref>

After the accession of [[Elizabeth I]], Booth renovated the medieval [[timber-framed]] [[manor house]], establishing Twemlow Hall as the [[family seat]] for next 300 years.<ref>[https://ia904506.us.archive.org/4/items/historyofancient00earw/historyofancient00earw.pdf John Parsons Earwaker, ”The History of the Ancient Parish of Sandbach”, 1890]</ref>

English landowner (1526–1591)

William Booth (1526–1591) was an English landowner in the Tudor era, seated at Twemlow in Cheshire.

The eldest son of Edward Booth by his second wife, Mary Knutsford, elder daughter and co-heiress of Roger Knutsford (died 1537), of Nether Knutsford^[1] and Elizabeth Mainwaring, Booth succeeded to his mother’s estate in 1548.

Educated at Macclesfield Grammar School, Booth married in 1548 Ellen Davenport, daughter of John Davenport of Woodford, Cheshire, having with other issue five sons. The eldest, John Booth (1554–1621) married Isabel Lowndes, whose family were seated nearby at Smallwood, Cheshire.^[2]

His second son Thomas Booth (died 1624), Constable of Chester Castle, was grandfather of Captain Sir William Booth, Commissioner of the Royal Navy (1688–89)^[3] and his cousin, George Booth (1515–1543), of Dunham Massey was grandfather of Sir George Booth, 1st Baronet and High Sheriff of Cheshire.^[4] The Booth baronets of Allerton Beeches (cr. 1916) descend via a cadet branch of his family which in the 18th century settled at Orford, Lancashire and then Liverpool, where they became shipowners.^[5]

After the accession of Elizabeth I, Booth renovated the medieval timber-framed manor house, establishing Twemlow Hall as the family seat for next 300 years.^[6]