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From: "Dennice Goudie" <>
Subject: Re: Noss - Booth Family
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 19:07:40 -0700
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Congratulations, Stuart

Have you ever considered doing an online search via listed telephone
numbers:
http://canada411.sympatico.ca/eng/person.html

Surname PATON in the province of British Columbia generated 150 names (one
of them listed as being SALT SPRING ISLAND) - I've read of others finding
extended family by un-intended posts.

I connected with 5 DNA cousins when posting re: 1881 Census and a surname I
knew to have been on Vancouver Island that was not included in any database
I had searched (one response lead, eventually, to relatives from USA, and
both coasts of Canada)

Thank you for sharing a part of your hunt.

Another interesting search engine which often turns up sites missed in the
better known
http://www.alltheweb.com


Regards,

Dennice
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~goudied/a_la_facon_du_pays.html

> Although nobody else on the list responded to my earlier posting about the
> Booth family in Noss in the 1830 and 1840s I thought list members may be
> interested in a successful link about the family I made recently using a
> search on a name through the Google search engine - who says the Internet
> doesn't help genealogical research!
>
> I mentioned the following family:
>
> >Is anyone researching the family of Joseph Booth and Ann Watson who lived
> >in Noss in the 1820s to 1850s? The family came from Lonmay in
> >Aberdeenshire. I know of the following:
> >
> >John Paton Booth christened 1802 in St Fergus, married Margaret Scott
> >daughter of James Scott in 1825. Sons Joseph (1835) and John (1838) were
> >born in Bressay. John Paton Booth was the farm manager on Noss at least
> >for periods during the 1820s and 1830s.
>
> As John Paton Booth and Margaret Scott did not seen to have died in
> Scotland I thought they may have emigrated. I therefore did a search on
> "John Paton Booth". One of the responses didn't throw up John senior but
> his son John Paton Booth junior who was born in Noss in 1838. He earns
his
> Internet listing as he was the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of
> British Columbia in 1898 and again in 1900-1902. He lived a Salt Spring
> Island just off Vancouver Island.
>
> The web gives his photograph and the following biography:
>
> "JOHN PATON BOOTH
> 1838-1902
> Speaker of the Legislative Assembly 1898, 1900-1902
> John Booth was born in Scotland and moved to British Columbia from Ontario
> in 1859, settling first in Victoria, and then later on Salt Spring Island.
> In fact, the island was named for the salt springs found on his farm.
Booth
> served as the MLA for the Cowichan, North Victoria, and The Islands
> constituencies. He was appointed Speaker on March 9, 1898 following the
> resignation of David Higgins. Booth was re-appointed Speaker in 1900 and
> died while still in office in February 1902."
>
> If anyone is interested in further information the web address is
>
> <http://www.legis.gov.bc.ca/about/100yrsago/citizens_1898.htm>;
>
> Further checking on marriage and death records with the help of a kind
> person in Canada has proved that the two men are one and the same.
>
> Stuart Robertson
> Inverness, UK
>
>
>

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