Bridgit Mendler

Bridgit Mendler

Mendler in 2012, photo by kathclick/Bigstock.com

Birth Name: Bridgit Claire Mendler

Place of Birth: Washington, D.C., U.S.

Date of Birth: December 18, 1992

Ethnicity: German, English, Scottish, French, Irish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, 1/1024 Polish

Bridgit Mendler is an American actress, singer, songwriter, executive, and businessperson.

She was born in Washington, D.C., and relocated with her family to San Francisco, California, as a young child. She is a niece, by marriage, of psychologist Christine Blasey Ford. Bridgit is married to Griffin Cleverly. She has a son, who is adopted.

Bridgit’s paternal grandfather is Edward Charles Mendler, Jr. (the son of Edward Charles Mendler and Constance Emily Reine Geney). Bridgit’s grandfather Edward was born in New Jersey. Bridgit’s great-grandfather Edward was the son of German immigrants, Herman Mendler and Magdelena Zimmerman. Constance’s father, Hippolyte A. Geney, was born in France, and Constance’s mother, Camille M. Rigny, was American, with French ancestry.

Bridgit’s paternal grandmother is Anne Raeder (the daughter of Oscar Jacob Raeder and Mildred Munro Woodsum). Oscar was of German descent, the son of Oscar W. Raeder and Augusta Wetzel, whose father was from Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Hesse and mother was from Württemberg, Baden-Württemberg. Mildred was the daughter of Jonas Hamilton Woodsum and Mildred Eliza Swan, and was of mostly English, as well as distant Scottish, ancestry. Mildred’s family had long lived in New England.

Bridgit’s maternal grandfather was John Bailey Ford (the son of Kenneth Arthur Ford and Dorothy Jane Bailey). John was born in Illinois. Kenneth was the son of Arthur Lee Ford and Ethel M. Parker. Dorothy was the daughter of Harry Ulysses Bailey and Eliza Jane Colver.

Bridgit’s maternal grandmother is Virginia Ruth Biddle (the daughter of Russell Lee Biddle and Virginia Rachel Rumble). Russell was the son of Richard Long Biddle and Mary Jane Pitcock. Virginia was the daughter of Harry Linden Rumble and Fairie O’Grady.

Sources: Genealogies of Bridgit Mendler – https://www.geni.com
http://gw.geneanet.org

Bridgit’s maternal great-grandfather, Kenneth Arthur Ford, on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org

16 Responses

  1. MadBadDog says:

    “She has very dark eyes for a european”

    Neiltennant, anthropologist from da hood.

  2. luckystar says:

    Her eyes color is brown. I’ve seen and I know a lot of Swedes, Germans, and English with brown eyes. You think we caucasians are perfect. Blue eyes and blond hair is unusual even in Europe.

  3. Kate says:

    What about on her mother’s side? The creator
    Of this profile only mentioned her race on her father’s
    Side.

  4. follers says:

    On her father’s side, Bridgit has German, English, Scottish, and French ancestry.

    Bridgit’s paternal grandparents were Edward Charles Mendler, Jr. (the son of Edward Charles Mendler and Constance) and Anne Raeder (the daughter of Oscar Jacob Raeder and Mildred Munro Woodsum).

    Edward (Bridgit’s great-grandfather) was the son of German immigrants, while Constance’s father was born in France and Constance’s mother was born in New York. Oscar was of German descent, while Mildred was of mostly English, as well as distant Scottish, ancestry. Mildred’s family had long lived in New England.

    Genealogy of Bridgit’s great-grandfather, Oscar Jacob Raeder – http://records.ancestry.com/Oscar_Jacob_Raeder_records.ashx?pid=107779599

    Genealogy of Bridgit’s great-grandmother, Mildred Munro Woodsum – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=guymonroejr&id=I117

    correction

    • ethnic says:

      Hi Follers, I cant find the connection between Bridgit and the paternal Grandparents. Can you tell me where that is?

      Admin

      • follers says:

        Yeah, if you go to peoplefinders, you’ll see Bridgit and her parents, Sandra Ford Mendler and Edward Charles Mendler III, are the only Mendlers listed in Mill Valley (some websites incorrectly call her parents Harry Mendler and Leah, but I can find no evidence that such people exist).

        I guess I should have put in that her mother’s name was “Ford”, but it didn’t seem to tell me much.

        Edward Charles Mendler, the first, the second, and III, were / are the only people with such names to ever live in the U.S., as far as I can tell. So clearly her dad, Edward Charles Mendler III, was the son of Edward Charles Mendler, Jr.

    • Nikki says:

      you think you know everything about ethnicities @follers

  5. andrew says:

    I admit I don’t know her, a huge part of “celebs” in the site are completely unknown to an European audience or ppl from anywhere out of US

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