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AussieMick · (This post was last modified: 07-13-2019 06:24 PM by AussieMick.)

Wow. Congratulations, Susan. Especially because, as Laurie has politely pointed out, the 'connection' to John W Booth is somewhat disputed ( I wasnt aware of that ... I'll try to find the website that sparked my interest ... but meanwhile there's this
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https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/li...d/6191757/

(BTW, I have cut-and-paste but I do not claim that the below is 100% accurate in the details. Tony Blair of course was a British PM)

"Cherie Blair - the John Wilkes Booth connection
Roy Stockdill
2/15/2006, 3:40:27 AM

Following another thread, I have now pinned down the relationship
between Cherie Blair, wife of Tony Blair, and John Wilkes Booth, the
assassin of Abraham Lincoln. Curiously enough, this cropped up only
this morning in the Daily Mail gossip column as part of an item about
Harrison Ford playing the man who killed Booth in a new film. The
relationship is also mentioned on several websites found with Google.

John Wilkes Booth's father was Junius Brutus Booth, born in London in
1796. He had a younger brother born in 1798, called Algernon Sydney
Booth. They were the sons of Richard Booth and Elizabeth Game, who
were married in London in 1795. It seems Algernon Sydney Booth was
the great-great-grandfather of the actor Tony (Anthony) Booth,
Cherie's father, who was born in Liverpool in 1931.

Junius Booth and his second wife Mary Ann Holmes left England in 1821
and John Wilkes Booth was born in 1838. The rest, as they say, is
history. Most of the events are on the IGI, albeit LDS private
submissions. However, with such well-known and high-profile people,
it seems fairly likely we can accept them for once.

It seems to be one of those cases where a certain type of genes
definitely run in a family! Junius Booth, father of John Wilkes
Booth, was an actor who had problems with alcohol and madness. So
does Tony Booth. In a previous message, I under-estimated the number
of daughters he's fathered. It's actually 8, not 5 or 6 as I said.
He's been married 4 times, including to the late Pat Phoenix of
Coronation Street fame, who he married virtually on her death bed,
and in 1979 almost died himself from burns when he caused a fire
trying to break into his flat when his then girlfriend locked him
out."

L Verge · (This post was last modified: 07-13-2019 07:13 PM by L Verge.)

"John Wilkes Booth's father was Junius Brutus Booth, born in London in
1796. He had a younger brother born in 1798, called Algernon Sydney
Booth. They were the sons of Richard Booth and Elizabeth Game, who
were married in London in 1795. It seems Algernon Sydney Booth was
the great-great-grandfather of the actor Tony (Anthony) Booth,
Cherie's father, who was born in Liverpool in 1931."

Steve Archer did a tremendous amount of research in writing his biography of Junius Brutus Booth: American Prometheus. Here is his citation on the short life of Algernon Sydney Booth, second son of Richard Booth and younger brother of Junius, Sr.:

Parish register for St. John's of Clerkenwell [London] recorded the burial of Algernon Sydney Booth, age five, on 2 June 1803. His birth in 1798 would thus agree with Junius Brutus Booth's later recollections of his brother; Algernon would have died when the future actor was seven.

James O. Hall had at least one paid researcher based in London to do his leg work when his own job responsibilities with the Labor Department prevented him from traveling. His genealogical work came up with the same story re: Algernon Sydney Booth.

AussieMick · 07-13-2019, 08:52 PM

thanks, Laurie

Steve · 07-14-2019, 01:19 AM

Has anybody figured out Tony Booth's actual ancestry?

L Verge · 07-14-2019, 12:01 PM

(07-14-2019 01:19 AM)Steve Wrote: Has anybody figured out Tony Booth's actual ancestry?

Surely some inquiring mind wanted to know and did some research, but I am not aware of it. Tony Booth does seem to have some of the traits of Junius Brutus Booth, the Elder...just saying. While we're busy trying to suggest that John Wilkes Booth survived and lived to sire children all over the place, maybe we need to check on his father's exploits? We do know he cheated on Adelaide with at least one woman...

And now I will shut up because this is how bad history gets started.

Steve · 07-14-2019, 05:43 PM

Tony Booth's Wikipedia page doesn't list his parents names, though it does say that he was born in Liverpool:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Booth_(actor)

L Verge · 07-30-2019, 06:59 PM

Keep your fingers off the browser key and try to answer these questions: Who was the first Union general killed in the Civil War? Where? When?

RJNorton · 07-31-2019, 03:56 AM

I do not know, but I loved the movie Gettysburg, and I shall guess General John Reynolds' death at Gettysburg was the first.

John Rothman as Reynolds

Wild Bill · (This post was last modified: 07-31-2019 05:48 AM by Wild Bill.)

Gen JK Mansfield at Anietam

I blew it. It was the other Wallace (not Lew) at Shiloh

Blew it again! Gen Nathaniel Lyon at Wilsons Creek was the first. I gotta stop doing this off the top of my head and start reading more!

L Verge · 07-31-2019, 10:47 AM

Third time is a charm, Bill. It was indeed Gen. Nathaniel Lyon at Wilsons Creek in August of 1861. He had gained some fame shortly before the war for putting down a disturbance at the St. Louis arsenal that helped to keep Missouri in the Union. The horrendous things that happened in Missouri during the war, however, might have been quelled if the state had gone Confederate. Just sayin...

Wild Bill · 08-01-2019, 05:06 AM

My mother's family is from Missouri's (pronounced Missourah in our house) "Little Dixie" as was Mark Twain. I believe he deserted the Confederate army and went west with his brother, a prominent Iowa Republican who was Secretary to the territorial governor of Nevada, a political plumb in those days. His book about the trip is "Roughing It" and id very humorous--if one is not a Mormon.

Wild Bill · 08-01-2019, 08:37 AM

I would probably do better on these questions if I did not do it at 3 AM when I get up!

L Verge · 08-01-2019, 04:41 PM

(08-01-2019 08:37 AM)Wild Bill Wrote: I would probably do better on these questions if I did not do it at 3 AM when I get up!

My friend, I do believe that you need a diffuser and some essential oils to help in getting a good night's sleep. Do they make Oil of Cactus Root??

Wild Bill · 08-02-2019, 05:49 AM

I have slept on an agricultural clock for most of my life--early to bed and early to rise. It is the only way to beat the sun's blistering heat

L Verge · 08-02-2019, 09:10 AM

(08-02-2019 05:49 AM)Wild Bill Wrote: I have slept on an agricultural clock for most of my life--early to bed and early to rise. It is the only way to beat the sun's blistering heat

Understood. My dad was a farm boy who rose with the roosters and had no problems with getting up early when he joined the military. On the other hand, my idea of when to get up (when I retire) will be 10 am. When I taught school, my first class always started at 7:30 am. I must have looked so sleepy that, one day, a student suggested that I might want to consider teaching night school -- which was available for secondary students who needed to work during the day or who had problems in regular classrooms.

Also remember that Ben Franklin suggested that "Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." I know you are very wise, Bill, and semi-healthy. How's the wealthy working out?