Jace Norman
Norman in 2017, photo by Prphotos
Birth Name: Jace Lee Norman
Place of Birth: Corrales, New Mexico, U.S.
Date of Birth: March 21, 2000
Ethnicity:
*25% Lebanese
*25% mix of Spanish [Catalan, Galician, Cantabrian], Puerto Rican, Corsican, Basque
*50% mix of Irish, English, Scottish, German, Swiss-German
Jace Norman is an American actor. He has starred on the series Henry Danger and in the television films Splitting Adam, Rufus, Blurt!, and Bixler High Private Eye.
His paternal grandfather was of Lebanese descent and his maternal grandmother’s ancestry is Puerto Rican/Spanish [including Catalan, Galician, and Cantabrian]/Corsican/Basque. From his other grandparents, Jace has Irish, English, Scottish, German, and Swiss-German ancestry.
Jace’s paternal grandfather was named Frederick/Fred John Norman (the son of The Rev. George Abdalh Norman and Requetta/Requette). Frederick was born in Michigan, to parents from Kalhat/Qalhat, Mount Lebanon.
Jace’s paternal grandmother was Joretta Pearl Moeller (the daughter of George Henry Moeller and Avo Elfie McKinney). Joretta was born in Oregon. George was the son of Claus Henry Moeller, who was German, and of Marie Nyffeler, who was Swiss. Avo was the daughter of Samuel Jefferson “Sam/S. J.” McKinney and Mary Melinda Tennessee “Tennie” Gage.
Jace’s maternal grandfather is Joseph Henry Lee (the son of Joseph Richard Lee and Amber Elizebeth Donahue). Jace’s grandfather Joseph was born in Illinois.
Jace’s maternal grandmother is Gloria Viqueira y Mariani (the daughter of Jaime E. Viqueira Solivellas and María Monserrate del Carman Mariani y Bartoli). Jace’s grandmother Gloria is Puerto Rican. Jace’s great-grandfather Jaime was from Mallorca, Spain, and was the son of Loreto Viqueira y Villanueva, who was of Galician and Cantabrian descent, and of Catalina Solivellas y Vicens. Jace’s great-grandmother María Monserrate was born in Yauco, Puerto Rico, and was the daughter of Antonio Mariani Cuprill, whose father was from Rogliano, Corsica and whose mother had Basque ancestry; and of María Monserrate Ildefonsa/Alfonsa Bartoli Martínez, whose father was also Corsican.
Sources: Jace’s paternal grandfather, Frederick/Fred John Norman, on the 1940 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Obituary of Jace’s paternal grandfather, Frederick/Fred John Norman – http://obituaries.tribdem.com
Naturalization record of Jace’s paternal great-grandfather, The Rev. George Abdalh Norman – https://www.familysearch.org
Genealogy of Jace’s paternal grandmother, Joretta Pearl (Moeller) Norman – https://www.findagrave.com
Obituary of Jace’s paternal grandmother, Joretta Pearl (Moeller) Norman Simmons – http://www.argusobserver.com
Marriage record of Jace’s maternal great-great-grandparents, Loreto Viqueira y Villanueva and Catalina Solivellas y Vicens – https://www.familysearch.org
Jace Norman’s paternal greatgrandparents George Norman and Requette Norman were both from Qalhat, Lebanon as can be seen in George’s naturalization act of 1920 here https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:HRHV-NVW2
Jace Norman’s greatgranduncle Mose/Moses Norman draft registration of 1917 where it says he was from Kalhat/Qalhat in Mount Lebanon https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K6XH-SRC
Jace Norman’s grandfather Fred along with his father George and uncle Mose/Moses in the 1940 Census https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KH96-M7D
This makes Jace Norman 25% Lebanese descent not Syrian descent.
Lebanese diaspora is big.
Nah, the numbers are grossly exaggerated. Only 100,000 (about 1/3 of the 300, 000 or so Lebanese that lived in Lebanon around 1900) arrived to America, with 25,000 of those ending in United States.
Half of the 200,000 Lebanese that remained in Lebanon died in the Famine of Mount Lebanon and the 100,000 that survived have grown into about 1.5 million Lebanese Christians in Lebanon today.
In reality, the Lebanese Christian diaspora has about 3.2-3.5 million descendants all over the world. Dont trust Lebanese government sources nor the government sources of Latin countries. They exaggerate the numbers for political reasons and agendas.
Better to look into the exact numbers of Lebanese Christians that emigrated in the first wave to each country between 1880-1920 and do the math. The emigrants of the second wave of emigration of1975 is made up of 60-70% Muslims so the numbers of Christians that emigrated was much less.
More reliable numbers are the ones calculated by independent research institutes such as the french IFPO institute numbers
https://books.openedition.org/ifpo/13224?lang=en#:~:text=International%20Migration%20and%20the%20Lebanese%20Diaspora,-%C3%89ric%20Verdeil%20et&text=Estimates%20vary%20widely%20but%20a,Lebanese%20abroad%20is%20often%20cited
and the Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies at the North Carolina State University https://lebanesestudies.news.chass.ncsu.edu/2015/02/04/methods-of-finding-population-statistics-of-lebanese-migration-throughout-the-world/
Another good source for numbers on the Lebanese Christian diaspora is the Annuario Pontificio for the Eastern Catholic Churches all over the world https://web.archive.org/web/20181024215818/http://www.cnewa.org/source-images/Roberson-eastcath-statistics/eastcatholic-stat17.pdf
Still impressive numbers.
Lebanon is tiny country.
True I wonder why
*37.5% British Isles (English, Irish, Scottish)
*25% Syrian
*12.5% Spanish, including Galician
*6.25% German
*6.25% Swiss-German
*6.25% Italian (Corsican)
*6.25% Puerto Rican (Spanish, Basque, possibly other)
Maternal grandfather is Joseph Henry Lee.
https://tucson.com/news/local/ages-to-this-family-makes-tucson-marathon-the-ultimate-reunion/article_4d4f76a3-b413-5d46-9b1e-0d747a58551d.html
This is his grandmother Gloria Viqueira y Mariani:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KFJN-LD7
Her father Jaime E. Viqueira Solivellas was from Mallorca, her mother María Monserrate Mariani Bártoli was from Puerto Rico.
Monserrate’s parents were Antonio Mariani Cuprill and María Monserrate Ildefonsa/Alfonsa Bartoli Martínez.
Antonio’s father Domingo Mariani Dominicci was born in Rogliano, Corsica.
Alfonsa’s father Juan Esteban Bartoli Filippi was also from Corsica.
Parents of Jaime Viqueira Solivellas were Loreto Viqueira y Villanueva and Catalina Solivellas y Vicens. They were married in Puerto Rico, but were both from Spain (and their son was born in Spain).
Loreto was born in Comillas, Cantabria to a Galician father and Cantabrian mother.
Catalina was born in Mallorca, Spain.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVJX-WJKB
How did you find out he has a Spanish great-grandfather?
By the way, finding more information about celebrities would be much easier if the parents’ names are always mentioned on the page. On many pages they are left out.
Some genealogy website (like geni.com) don’t list parents’ names for privacy reasons. I dunno. For less famous people I don’t tend to include them.
I found the information about Norman’s maternal great-grandfather on Norman’s mother’s Facebook page. There’s more information there, but I haven’t had a chance to check it out yet.