"Booth" Was Not John Wilkes Real Last Name?

[Steve]

Just to add one more thing... In his 1817 memoir Junius Brutus Booth Sr. doesn't mention anything about having Spanish or Portuguese ancestry. Although he does mention a family connection to John Wilkes:

https://books.google.com/books?id=DjVAAA...&q&f=false

Either Junius Sr. wasn't aware of Spanish or Portuguese ancestry, or he wanted to suppress it for some reason. Although he doesn't seem to be the type who would suppress a dramatic family history. The link to the notes in Archer's book in my last post says that Edwin believed the family might be linked to theater manager Barton Booth and hired people to make a list of wills in the London archives with the last name of Booth (whether they were family or not). If Junius Sr. had related a family history of coming from Spain or Portugal, why would Edwin be doing this? If Junius Sr. or his father hadn't relayed a family history to the Booth children about the family coming from Spain or Portugal, then how would any descendants be aware of the story decades later?