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- From 1881 Census:
Living with parents and brother George. Francis was 10, George 3 months. His parents were 45 and 46 respectively.
Was a caligrapher and a cousin of J.R. Booth, lumber baron of Ottawa. Francis left his wife Florence and went to live in New Hampshire, U.S.A. When he left, the children went to live with an aunt in New Hampshire
A letter exists from a Mrs. Halpenny, Norwood Grove, Man. 235 Endfield. May 12th 1912.
My Dear Nephew
It is over a month since I received your welcome letter. I should and would have answered it before, only I was waiting to hear from a man that was acquainted with your Mother's people. He used often to come to our house, but he does not come now so often as we are not on the street that he passes on. So I went to see him last week. I would have went to see him sooner only I was housecleaning and too tired to go out in the evening. I do bve a little lazy some times. Mr. Argue gave me the name of a first cousin of yours, on your mother's side, Albert Bobier. His Father was your mother's Brother, and is living on the old home stead of your MOther's parents. They are all dead. Your aunts and unkles they were all born in Ontario, and of Irish decent. THe only relation of your mothers that I knew was a sister she used to be in Ottawa to see your mother. I only saw her twice after your mother's death, the day after the death, and once your Father and you and I went up to Ashton to see her. I think your Mother died in March and you were two years old in the next month, April, your Mother was buried in Ashton, Ont. She died of consumption. I think that Granma Cochrane must be one of your step-mothers people. I never heard of them. I th ink if you will, write to your cousin Albert Bobier, His address Munster P.O., Ont. Mr. Argue said he heard of one of your unkles John Bobier he was living in Ottawa the last he heard of him he said all tghe Bobiers were well to do people, and respectable. I think they were farmers. As to the year of your birth, I think that the bible record is right, as you were two years old when your mother died. I kept house for your father two years, till when he got married. It lacked one month of two years when he got married. Then I was married the next September 1874. I think that is all the questions that I can answer that you asked for. If at any time I hear of anything that is interesting to you, I will tell you another time as I hope to keep track of you for the future and hope to swee you in Norwood.
Death record of Francis Alfred Booth. Died at 28 B Street, Manchester, N.H. where he had lived for 18 years. Had he moved to the US in 1912?
Widowed at the time of his death. Worked for the Scott Oil Co.
- (Research):Cousin John Rudolphus (J.R.) Booth (Apr 5 1827 - Dec 8 1925) born in Shefford County, Waterloo, Quebec. 2nd oldest of 5 children to John Booth and Eleanor Rawley Booth, immigrant Irish farmers.
Married Rosalinda Cook Jan 7 1852. Moved into a stone house on Queen Street in Ottawa.
June 1, 1866. Augusta Adella, the Booths' youngest daughter, dies at the age of six.
JR Booth's mill is destroyed in the great Ottawa fire of 1893.
His son, Charles Jackson Booth, married Jessie Gibson at Petrolia circa 1907.
J.R. was a Presbyterian all his life.
J.R's granddaughter, Lois Frances Booth, married Prince Erik Frederick Christian Alexander von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Gluecksburg (1890-1950), Duke of Rosenborg, son of Waldemar d'Orleans and Marie Amelie Francoise Helene d'Orleans, Princesse d'Orleans, on Nov 11 1924 at Ottawa. The couple was divorced 12 February 1937 at Copenhagen, Denmark. She then married Thorkild Juelsberg after 1938.
Lois, born 2 Aug 1897at Ottawa, was the daughter of John Frederick Booth and Frances Alberta Hunsicker. She died Feb 26 1941 at age 43 in Copenhagen.
Children of Lois and Erik:
- Alexandra Dagmar Frances Marie Margarethe von Rosenborg, Countess of Rosenborg
- Christian Edward Valdemar Jean Frederick Peter von Rosenborg, Count of Rosenborg.
J.R. is buried in St. James Cemetery on Aylmer Road.
See also: http://www.pastforward.ca/perspectives/Oct_272000.htm
"He shied away from public events, like his daughter's wedding, which was the largest ever held in Ottawa." [note: they probably mean granddaughter]
"When [J.R.] Booth died, only three of his eight children remained and they carried on the business. Two of his senior men were a cousin, Robert Booth, and his son-in-law Andrew Fleck, both of whom came to the Wasi operation regularly."
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