Marian Agnes Land ROOKES

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Famous Actress

Notes:

1. Known publicly as Agnes Land Perry, Agnes Booth or Sherry Booth.
2. She married three times, the first time to Harry Perry in 1861 and the last time in 4 Feb. 1885 to J. B. Schoffet.
3. She had a sister named Belle (married name Hoffmer) who is buried at the Rosedale Cemetery, Manchester, Massachusetts USA.
4. Their mother was Sarah Land who married (apparently for the second time) Henry Smeathem in Sydney, Australia in 1848. She is also buried at the Rosedale Cemetery, Manchester,
Massachusetts USA.

Marian married Junius Brutus BOOTH, Jnr in 1867 in New York, New York, USA. Junius (son of Junius Brutus BOOTH, Snr. and Mary Ann HOLMES) was born on 22 Dec 1821 in Charelston, Sth Carolina, USA; died on 16 Sep 1883 in Manchester, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in Rosedale Cem, Manchester, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Actor / Physician / Cinematography Prop.

Notes:

1. He was son of the actor and stage manager, Junius Brutus Booth (I995), grandson of Junius Brutus Booth (I986), the most well-known actor in early American history, nephew of the great Shakespearean actor Edwin Booth and of America's most famous scoundrel, John Wilkes Booth the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln. He was a failed actor and physician who murdered his wife and then committed suicide in a hotel room by the English seaside in 1912.
2. At an early age he deserted the classroom for the stage dressing room. After minor experiences playing juvenile roles he appeared with several well-known stars. In 1882 he followed the course taken by him in his youth and left the stage to study medicine. He was not successful as a physician, however, after 10 years he resumed his musical career in stock companies of the US and England.
Later he toured the manufacturing centres of great Britain with his own company, but the venture was not profitable and he purchased a motion-picture theatre at Brightlingsea, there he and his wife occupied rooms in a cheap lodging house. On December 6th July 1912 they were found dead from the
wound's of a revolver in Junius' hand. Reports stated that his last failures and involvement's in a lawsuit may have been responsible for his actions.
3. Newspaper extracts in family file include:
-Inquest verdict was "willful murder and suicide, while insane".
-"thought to be taking drugs".
-"very excitable"
-"much worried because his show had failed to pay ".
-A note found said "f have given my wife a sleeping draught to ease her pain. AsI cannot live without her, f will give myself another" (was his wife suffering some illness and so he put an end to her pain and then committed suicide??)
-Her cause of death was a gunshot wound to the brain and then he shot himself.
3. His address at their marriage was 2 Beaumont St. West Kensington. Her address at marriage was 2 Park St. Richmond indicating that they married in her Parish Church.
4. His will gives "of Manchester in the State of Massachusetts" but Manchester is not in Boston but lies on the Atlantic coast northeast of Boston between Salem and Gloucester. Jonathan Myers's cousin in Boston sent him the birth details of Junius which gives 7 Florence St. Boston as his birthplace. LDS has his brother Sidney as born in Manchester, Massachusetts.
5. He left his effects of £150 to his brother Sidney Barton Booth who renounced it and it went to his brother in law Richard Bond Turner, glassware merchant who was a creditor. She left her effects of £650 to his wife, Minnie Turner. Minnie Turner was the sister of Florence. Administration dated London 2814 and 2614 respectively.
Her DOD given as 6/12/1912 and his as 7/12/1912.
7. Witnesses to his will written 26/11/1894 were Ralph St. Menard, John H. Langdon & Charles H. Pattee.

Junius married Folrence Elizabeth Maria Edviga NOAH on 16 Jun 1894 in RC Chapel, Richmond, Surrey, England. Folrence (daughter of Robert Phillips NOAH and Maria SOLOMON) was born in May 1959 in New York, New York, USA; died on 6 Dec 1912 in 19 Tower St, Brightlingsea, Essex, England; was buried in 1912 in Probably Brightlingsea, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Actor

Notes:

Named as the beneficiary of Junius Brutus Booth (I949) will, but renounced inheritance.