John Booth, III, of Barton

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Booth-1554

John Booth, Esq, was the eldest son and heir of John Booth of Barton, Esq, by his wife Ann, daughter of Sir Richard Brereton of Worsley, knt.[1]

John married twice, to:

1. Anne Ashton on 22 November, 1547, at St Leonard, Middleton, Lancashire, England.[2] [1] Anne was the daughter of Richard Ashton of Middleton, Esq.[1] John and Anne had no children.[1]
2. Ellen, daughter of Sir Piers Legh; John mentions his wife Ellen and his father-in-law, Sir Piers Legh in his will, 5 August, 1571;[1] they married in or before 1560;[1] Sir Piers was of Lyme, Cheshire.[1] John and Ellen had four daughters and coheirs:
   1. Margaret Booth, aged 15 in 1576, was married to Edmund Trafford, esq, son and heir of Sir Edmund Trafford, knt;[1] by 16 February, 1581;[3]
   2. Anne;[1] [3]
   3. Katherine Boothe,[1] deceased before 16 May, 25 Elizabeth [1583], when a warrant for livery of her lands was issued to Edmund Trafford, esq, and Margaret his wife in her right, to Anne Boothe and Dorothy Boothe in their own right, Margaret, Anne and Dorothy being sisters and next heirs of Katherine, one of the four daughters and co-heirs of John Boothe, late of Barton, co Lancaster, esq, deceased.[3]
   4. Dorothy;[3]

John also had a bastard daughter; she was unmarried on 5 August, 1571, when he provided for her marriage in his will.[1]

On 5 August, in the 13th year of the reign of Elizabeth, 1571, "John Boothe of Barton uppon Irwell within the Countie of Lancaster, Esquier," sick in body, made his testament and last will ordering his body to be buried within the parish church of Eccles in the same chapel or place as his ancestors have been buried.[1]

On 8 November, 15 Elizabeth, 1573, in a suit regarding the marriage between the son of Edmund Trafford, esq, and Margaret, the daughter of John Booth, esq, Edmund sued Sir Peter Leigh, John Booth, esq and others, for custody of Margaret.[4]

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/150289868/john_booth

The Booths were from Boothstown in Salford.

The traditional family church of the Booth family was St. Katherine the Virgin at Eccles. Sir Thomas Booth mentions St. Katherine's in his will "In the name of God, Amen. Monday before the feast of St. Michael the Archangel [September 25], 1368. I, Thomas del Booth, now living in good health, make my testament in this manner. First, I bequeath my soul to God and to the blessed Virgin Mary, and to all his saints, and my body to be buried in the church of Eccles, before the altar of St. Katherine Virgin, and with my body my best beast in the name of a mortuary."

https://websites.umich.edu/~bobwolfe/gen/mn/m27334x31850.htm

The existing churchyard, St. Mary's has a gabled south transept was originally a chantry chapel and it has a gabled south porch. The south aisle windows have four lights with Perpendicular tracery while the north aisle have five lights, as do the clerestory windows.

The 16th century 'Entry to Jerusalem' window originated in Rouen, France, and was installed in the now-demolished St John's Church, Manchester prior to being sited at Eccles in 1929. It is also known as the Long Donkey Window.The earliest parts of the building are the responds of the arch to the south transept in St. Katherine's Chapel, which are of 14th-century date, and may belong to the year 1368, when the chapel was founded. These form the only remaining fragment of a church which probably consisted of a chancel with north chapel and nave with south aisle, to which this chantry was added.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_St_Mary_the_Virgin,_Eccles
https://websites.umich.edu/~bobwolfe/gen/mn/m27334x31850.htm
https://www.thornber.net/cheshire/htmlfiles/dunham.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_St_Mary_the_Virgin,_Eccles