Barbara, I'm a Booth, but not related. Mine come from Nottinghamshire. But I couldn't miss trying to help a namesake. I'd suggest you go to the Hugh Wallis site, extract all the Booth records from the Market Drayton batches and sort them into families with eras. See http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers/CountyShropshire.htm#M Looking at the batches, there are some gaps in dates, so every record is not there. Click on each batch and search using just the Booth surname. It looks like the earliest record is the marriage of Gerard Booth in 1697. Try and work from there. As for George and Sarah, if you do a parent search, you'll find a Mary 1795, Ann 1797, Mary 1807 and Sarah 1807. Not all these appear in official batches. I also wonder about dates as 1807 Mary has 28th and Sarah 25th. It may be a typo. There are only two christening records for a Joseph between 1798 -1818 in Shropshire. 1809 in Wellington father Joseph, 1816 in Dawley Magna father George. It could be Joseph wasn't christened until age 8. My assessment is that some of the children were either not christened or records are missing. The later additions of Sarah and Ann add weight to this. But that means you can't really jump one way or the other on the origins of Joseph. Peter Booth in Sydney