Other Events and Attributes:

• Emigration: 6 Jul 1867, Sailed from Nassau to New York on the Corsica with mother intended to become inhabitants of England.

Alice married Edward Aikenhead on 11 Sep 1877 in Church of the Redeemer, Brooklyn, NY. Edward (son of Thomas Aikenhead and Eliza Beale or Beal) was born on 31 Dec 1834 in Kilkenny, Ireland; died on 9 Jan 1919 in 656 Markham St Toronto, Ontario, Canada; was buried in 1919 in Mt Pleasant Cemetery, Aikenhead plot, Toronto, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Eliza Beale Aikenhead was born on 11 Jul 1879 in Brooklyn, NY; died in 1962 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Flesherton Cemetery.
2. Richard Chambers Aikenhead was born on 11 Feb 1881 in Brooklyn, NY; was buried on 28 Jan 1957 in Greenwood Cemetery Brooklyn, NY.
3. Edward Wallace Aikenhead was born on 5 Dec 1882 in Brooklyn, NY; died in 1950 in Dade County FL.

Rev. married Charlotte Bootle about 1847. Charlotte (daughter of George Bootle and Sarah Dosset) was born in Jun 1823 in West Indes; died on 9 Sep 1900 in Brooklyn, Kings, NY; was buried on 11 Sep 1900 in Greenwood Cemetery Brooklyn, NY lot 28307 section 135. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Emigration: 6 Jul 1867, Sailed from Nassau to New York on the Corsica with Alice, intended to become inhabitants of England.

Notes:

1900 Brooklyn, NY address 383 Pacific (lodger) census she gave her date of birth as June, 1823, West Indies. Her parents were also born in the West Indies, according to the information she gave the census taker.

Richard married Alice unknown about 1820. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

There is a "Bootle Bay" on Grand Bahama Island

The approximately 200 plus acres in question are reportedly a portion of the land granted by the Crown to John Bootle in the 1800s, and form a part of Bootle Bay. Several of his descendants had been fighting for the land in court, but in the end, it was Wilbert Bootle whose claim to the land was rejected by Justice Thompson. (The other relatives withdrew their claims.)

It should be noted that the 2,000 acres (8.1 km²) of land purportedly bought by the Sammons Organization (Jack Tar Resorts-USA) in the 1960's was fraudulently acquired. There are records of families living on the land long before the arrival of the British who colonized the islands. The era of the UBP - United Bahamian Party or the Bay Street Boys (1940-1968) created mass wealth among elite business men who ran the government and created the laws to protect their interest in land acquired fraudently. The John Bootle (Crown Land) was granted in 1820 to John Bootle. Legend has it that he died under mysterious causes. The local government overseer at the time of Bootle's death is rumoured to have wanted to acquire Bootle's land. Bootle's body was never found. Bootle had two sons, one of whom stayed on the land and the other who fled to Abaco with the crown grant land documents where they live today. The surviving family heirs to John Bootle include the following surnames - Roberts, Nesbit, Smith, Ferguson, Williams and Ashe. Other families living in the settlement today would no doubt dispute who the original land owners are. The largest land owners prior to the arrival of the Bay Street Boys were the Williams clan who possessed 960 acres of the land once belonging to John Bootle. Proper research on the verification of this information can be found on microfiche in the National Archives in Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas.

George married Sarah Dosset about 1820. Sarah was born in UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Now operating as a 14 gun slave ship in the , the Concorde was under Captain Pierre Dosset and lieutenant Francois Ernaut in 1717 when it encountered two sloops of 20 cannon and 150 men, collectively. Leader of the pack was Ben Hornigold , piratical captain who had among his crew one Edward Teach. The ship was escorted to the island of Bequia South of St. Vincent where the pirates did to it what pirates do.
Relieved of their gold and jewelry, the Frenchmen were transferred to a small sloop and sent (with their slaves) on their merry way to Martinique Blackbeard transferred his flag to the Concorde , added twenty cannon, and now had himself one of the most heavily armed pirate ships afloat. The ship was rechristened Queen Anne's Revenge ).


The name "Sarah Dosset" was on a Family Tree prepared by Edna Armstrong Bolten.