Boot's Atherston nr Stratford 5.6.1797
In GD website Atherston is wrongly transcribed Albertson. In a letter to Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin described Boot as a country farmer. John Boote gamekeeper and yeoman of Atherston from 1774, subscribed (along with Samuel Parr and many of his local friends) to History & Antiquities of Stratford upon Avon 1806, Jackson's Oxford Journal 22.3.1823 J Boote of Cricklade Wilts formerly of Atherston upon Stour died age 75. There were other Bootes in the vicinity, Mr Boote of Lapworth also subsribed in 1806 to the same work, and JOJ recorded on 8.1.1820 the death age 68 of Alexander Boote clerk to the Stratford Canal Co for 26 years, his will PCC 1821 accountant of Stratford upon Avon mentioned his niece Catherine Phillips straw hat manufacturer