TITLE: Lord of Dunham-Massey - Sheriff of Chester NOTE: Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee, as well as President Thomas Jefferson and his wife Martha Wayles are descendants.

Notes for GEORGE BOOTH: "Sir George [9] Booth (William [8], Robert [7], John [6], Thomas [5], John [4], Thomas [3], William [2], Adam [1]), son and heir of Sir William [8], married Catherine, daughter and heir of Robert Mountfort, of County Stafford. The Mountforts were of noble connection, being related to David, King of Scotland, and to the great family of Clinton. This marriage brought to Sir George an ample estate of manors and lands in the counties of Salop, Stafford, Warwick, Leicester, Hereford, Wilts, Somerset, Devon and Cornwall. Sir George Booth died the first year of Richard III (1483). By his wife Catherine he had three sons and two daughters, according to the heraldic records."

(Genealogy of the Booth Family in England and the United States, Walter S. Booth, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1892)

The Booth family inherited most of the Massey lands in 1409, with Dunham Massey remaining at the heart of the estate. The deer park at Dunham Massey is the only medieval park in Trafford to survive to the present. The hall and grounds are open to the public and are a popular tourist attraction, with over 110,000 visitors in 2006.