Cornelie Ida Ernestine Schoch Booth (13 October 1864 – 31 May 1920) was a Dutch hymnwriter and Salvation Army officer.
She was the wife of Herbert Booth, son of the founders of the Salvation Army.
Cornelie Schoch was born on 13 October 1864 in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, the daughter of Carl Ferdinand Schoch, a Dutch colonel who previously served in the Swiss Army, and Henriette Cornelia Wilhelmina de Ravallet, the daughter of French Huguenots.
[3] She accompanied and assisted Herbert Booth at his postings as a Salvation Army commandant in Canada from 1892 to 1895 and Australia from 1895 to 1901.
[3][4] Cornelie Booth wrote a number of hymns, including "A Perfect Trust" and "Have You Heard the Angels Singing?