Taylor Swift

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Birth Name: Taylor Alison Swift

Birthplace: Pennsylvania, United States

Date of Birth: December 13, 1989

Race or Ethnicity: German, English, Scottish, Welsh, French, Italian, Irish, Dutch, Swedish

Her dad has an ancestor called Mary J Gwynn, born in N. Carolina, to Irish-born parents Francis Gwynn and Susan Davis. Swift has an ancestor named Charles G. Baldi who was born in Italy in 1860. Another ancestor named Nicolas Knapp was born in England in 1592. She has other ancestors that trace their roots back to England in the 1500s. Through one of her father’s ancestors, Charles Douglass, there is a very very distant ancestor called Olof Thorsson, born in Offerdal, Jamtland, Sweden. Married to an ‘Elice’ also from Sweden.

Taylor’s mother’s mother, Marjorie Moehlenkamp, born Oct. 5th 1928 was of German ancestry. Swift also has a French ancestor named Lewis de Reynaud who was born in the 1600s and a Dutch-American ancestor named Ariantje Emans who was born in 1733.

Source:

1. http://www.conovergenealogy.com/famous-p/p384.htm
2. Lewis de Reynaud
3. http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/23763513/family?cfpid=1424918447
4. http://www.conovergenealogy.com/famous-p/p1722.htm#i86100
5. Catherine Swick
6. http://www.conovergenealogy.com/ancestor-p/p174.htm