Eh Hem: What?

[Dave Taylor]

(10-02-2014 07:13 PM)L Verge Wrote:  A surname that is tied to the current movement to disinter Edwin to test for DNA is "Hulme." The ones pushing that are here in the states, but the Surratt Society has at least one Australian member named Hulme. I have never ventured into asking if there is a relationship, but do you know if the name ties into the Booth heritage?

My original post was wrong so here is the correction.

Members of the Hulme family are related to the Booths, but they are not direct descendants of any of the Booth children. Their line descends from Jane Booth, Junius' sister. She married James Mitchell and had several children.

Dr. Joseph Booth's second wife was Cora Estelle Mitchell. She was his first cousin once removed and 30 years his junior. They had a son together, Edwin, but he died at the age of 15 months. All three of them (plus Joe's first wife, Margaret) are buried at the Booth family plot at Green Mount. Some of the outspoken Hulmes like to lay claim to Joe and Cora, but they are not direct descendants as Joe had no heirs.

Not all members of the Hulme family agree with the few misguided members of their family who push for an exhumation of Edwin. I hope that they are so distantly related (1st cousins 4+ times removed by my count) that they will likely never have the legal standing to desecrate the grave of the Booths.