Joan Trafford

Events 

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: Sir Henry Trafford of Trafford.

Payling gives “Sir Henry Trafford of Trafford”. Joan is described as a sister of Sir Edmund Trafford’s father Henry in the plea in the Lancashire Plea Rolls given in the Lancashire VCH (v. 4, sub Stretton). See below in the Evidence section.

Mother: Margery.

Margery’s inquisition post mortem names her grandson Edmund de Trafford, and his father Henry.

Spouse: John Booth.

This relationship is given by Payling, by Rawcliffe, and by Reeves.

Children: 

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Sir Thomas Booth (born about 1382) married Isabella de Fulleshurst.

Roger Booth (died 18 August 1467) married Katherine de Hatton.

William Booth (born about 1390 - died 12 September 1464 at Southwell), archbishop of York.

Sir Robert Booth (born about 1400 - died 16 September 1450) married Douce Venables.

Richard Booth.

John Booth.

Margery Booth married Sir John Byron.

Joan Booth married (1) Sir Thomas Sherbourne; married (2) Sir Thomas Southworth.

Katherine Booth married (1) Sir Thomas Radcliffe; married (2) Nicholas Boteler.

Alice Booth married Robert Clifton.

Elizabeth Booth married Sir Edward Wever.

Laurence Booth (born about 1420 - died 9 May 1480 at Southwell), bishop of Durham, chancellor of Cambridge, Lord Chancellor, archbishop of York. Laurence was illegitimate. His mother is unknown.

Evidence

from the Lancashire VCH (v. 4, sub Stretton):

 In a plea of 1445 [Sir Edmund Trafford] was described as the son and heir of Henry, brother of Joan, mother of Thomas Booth, father of Alice wife of Thomas Duncalf; Pal. of Lanc. Plea R. 8, m. 23.

References

Bothe, William. The Register of William Bothe, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, 1447-1452. (John Condliffe Bates ed.) (The York and Canterbury Society, 2008).

Crofton, H.T. A History of the Ancient Chapel of Stretford (Chetham Society v. 51 New Series, 1903)

Dugdale, William. The Visitation of the County Palatine of Lancaster made in the year 1664-5.  (Chetham Society v. 88, 1873).

A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 4 (Victoria County History, 1911).

Ormerod, George, and Thomas Helsby. The History of the County Palatine of Chester 3 vols. (1882).

Payling, Simon. “Byron, Sir John I (c. 1386 - c. 1451), of Clayton, Lancashire” in The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1422-1461 (Linda Clark ed.) (University of Cambridge Press, 2020).

Pollard, A.J. “Booth [Bothe], Laurence (c. 1420 - 1480)” in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004).

Payling, Simon. “Byron, Sir John I (c. 1386 - c. 1451), of Clayton, Lancashire” in The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1422-1461 (Linda Clark ed.) (University of Cambridge Press, 2020).

Rawcliffe, Carole. “Booth, John I (d. 1422), of Barton, Eccles, Lancs.” in The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1386-1421 (1993). Online version.

Rawcliffe, Carole. “Radcliffe, Sir Thomas (c. 1391-1440), of Astley and Winmarleigh, Lancs.” in The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1386-1421 (1993). Online version.

Rawcliffe, Carole. “Worsley, Robert (d. 1402), of Booths in Worsley, Lancs.” in The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1386-1421 (1993). Online version.

Reeves, A.C. “Booth [Bothe], William (d. 1464)” in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004).