Meg White
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Birth Name: Megan Martha White
Place of Birth: Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, U.S.
Date of Birth: December 10, 1974
Ethnicity: Scottish, German, English, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Swiss-German, possibly other
Meg White is an American musician and singer. She was the drummer of Detroit rock duo The White Stripes, partnering with her then-husband Jack White.
Meg is the daughter of Catherine and Walter White.
Meg’s paternal grandfather was Walter Hackett White, Sr. (the son of Duncan White and Janet L. Skea/Skae). Walter was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Scottish parents. Janet was born in Arbroath, Angus, the daughter of David Skea and Isabella Lundie.
Meg’s paternal grandmother was Virginia E. Morse (the daughter of Howard Edgar Morse and Nellie L. Myers). Virginia was born in Detroit, Michigan. Howard was the son of Edgar Fitch Morse, who had deep roots in the U.S., and of Caroline Elizabeth Shafer/Schaffer/Schaeffer, who was the daughter of German immigrants. Nellie was the daughter of Moses Edward Myers, who was of German descent, and of Hester Ann Riley, who was of German, and one quarter Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, ancestry.
Sources: Genealogy of Meg White – https://www.geni.com
Genealogy of Meg White (focusing on her father’s side) – https://gw.geneanet.org
Maternal grandparents:
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/dailyherald/name/frank-rische-obituary?id=16896296
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/dailyherald/name/sheila-rische-obituary?pid=92298055
Excelent!
I also found the obituary of Sheila Paul Rische yesterday, but since they don’t mention Megan’s mother Catherine, I thought it wasn’t the same Sheila.
How do you know they’re her grandparents?
Megan and her sister Heather are mentioned in Both.
But why don’t they mention her parents?
In Frank Rische’s obituary they mention a Kathy
Well, they mention an “extra” named Kathy. Not sure what that means. How do we know these are the right Heather and Meg? The man had 50 grandkids!
It would be too many coincidences for them not to be Meg’s grandparents, I think
I don’t see any coincidences. Aside of which, Frank and Sheila married in 1956/1957, which makes for a very quick two-generation turnaround. There’s almost no way ”both” of them are Meg’s biological grandparents.
So, you think they adopted Catherine??
It is possible
Meg’s paternal grandfather was Walter Hackett White Sr. (the son of Duncan White and Janet L. Skae). Walter was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Scottish emigrant parents. Janet was born in Arbroath, Angus, the daughter of David Skea and Isabella Lundie.
Meg’s paternal grandmother was Virginia E. Morse (the daughter of Howard Edgar Morse and Nellie L. Myers). Virginia was born in Detroit, Michigan. Howard was the son of Edgar Fitch Morse, who had deep lines in America, and Caroline Elizabeth Shafer/Schaeffer, the daughter of German emigrants. Nellie was the daughter of Moses Edward Myers, who was (at least mostly) of German descent, Hester Ann Riley, who was mostly of German, and one-quarter Norther-Irish, ancestry.
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/pedigree/landscape/LTF4-V2X
https://gw.geneanet.org/tdowling?lang=en&pz=timothy+michael&nz=dowling&p=walter+hackett&n=white
*Paternal grandfather — Scottish
*Paternal grandmother — German (including some Alsatian and Swiss-German), with smaller amounts of English and Northern-Irish
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/pedigree/landscape/G6DH-P2Z
Meg’s maternal grandfather was Frank George Rische (the son of Bert Dale Rische and Rose Lillie Hildebrandt). Frank was born in Des Plaines, Illinois. Bert was the son of John Henry Rische, a German emigrant from Moorhausen, Lower Saxony, and Ada Augusta Griffin, who had deeper lines in america. Rose Lillie was the daughter of Ludwig Louis Hildebrandt and Sophia Dorothea Senne, both born in Illinois to German parents.
Meg’s maternal grandmother was Sheila “Shirley” Joy Paul (the daughter of Lawrence Marshall Palenske and Holly Grace Reed). Sheila was born in Park Ridge, Illinois. Lawrence was the son of Paul Julius Palenske and Grace Emma Baumann, both of German descent. Holly was the daughter of John Wesley Reed and Grace Coe Hibbard, whose own mother was a German emigrant from Uekermunde.
Ethnicity: German (including some Alsatian and Swiss-German), one-quarter Scottish, English, smaller amounts of Northern-Irish