"Booth" Was Not John Wilkes Real Last Name?

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I believe this lineage is given in several books, but I don't remember references to the Portuguese ancestors being Shakespearean actors. Like Betty, I thought they were silversmiths or goldsmiths. What does Nora Titone say in My Thoughts Be Bloody or Stanley Kimmel in Mad Booths of Maryland.

By the end of the year, what I suspect may be the bible of Booth history should be on the stands -- Fortune's Fool by Dr. Terry Alford. I'll see what he has to say.

I'm not sure that silversmith as an occupation goes any further back than Junius The Elder's grandfather, John Booth.