John Rudolphus Booth - Descendants and Legacy

Descendants and Legacy

His son John Frederick Booth, who lived in Canada, married and had a daughter Lois Frances Booth (born Ottawa, Ontario, 2 August 1897; died Copenhagen, 26 February 1941), who was married in Ottawa, Ontario, on 11 February 1924 to Count Erik of Rosenborg, whom she divorced in 1937; they had two children. She later remarried Thorkild Juelsberg, without issue. Booth's fortune was a subject of much speculative commentary during the latter years of his life, with estimates ranging up to $100 million. At the time of the marriage in 1924 of his granddaughter Lois Frances Booth to Prince Erik Christian Frederik Alexander of Denmark, it was rumoured that Booth contributed half of her $4-million dowry. J.R. issued a formal denial. At his death his estate was officially valued at almost $7.7 million; the property was later re-evaluated upwards. Although succession duties exceeding $4 million were paid in 1927, Ontario Premier Mitchell Frederick Hepburn subsequently claimed more and invoked the legislature to overcome the legal obstacles. J.R's heirs eventually paid another $3 million.

J. R. Booth also had a grandson named after him, J. R. Booth, Jr. J. R. Booth Jr.'s children included Asa Booth, a parliamentary guard at Canada's Parliament Building in Ottawa. Asa had one child, a daughter Rita Carmel Mary. Rita married Kenneth George Lough and had 4 children. Thomas Asa, Florence Ella (Suzie), Lorrie Roseann, Kenneth George Jr. Thomas married Sherren Darlene Wasiewicz (Magill) and had four children - Sheana Anne Maureen, Daniel Sean Patrick, Sheelin Carmel Mary and Shannon Loretta Marie. Florence married Ronald Joseph Hector Beaudoin had two sons, Philip Ronald Joseph and Steven Michael Todd. Lorrie married Wayne Joseph Lazar and had three daughters, Tancy Reanne, Chelsey and Casey-Jo. Kenneth George Jr. married Ella Hendrica Bakala. George, was killed in a trucking accident and had no children at the time of his death.