Alexi Lalas
Birth Name: Panayotis Alexander Lalas
Place of Birth: Birmingham, Michigan, U.S.
Date of Birth: June 1, 1970
Ethnicity:
*father – Greek
*mother – English, some Irish and Dutch, 1/16 Welsh, remote French
Alexi Lalas is an American soccer player, manager, and rock musician. He works as an analyst for Fox Sports. He played mostly as a defender.
His father, Demetrios Lalas, is a Wayne State University professor. His mother, Anne Harding Woodworth, is a writer. He speaks English, Greek, Spanish, and Italian.
He is married and has two children.
Alexi’s paternal grandfather was named Panayotis Lalas.
Alexi’s maternal grandfather was Henry Wilford Harding (the son of Benjamin Franklin Hall, Jr. and Agnes Louise Harding). Henry was born in Michigan. Benjamin was the son of Benjamin Franklin Hall, Sr. and Mary J. Allen. Agnes was the daughter of Henry Wilford Harding and Agnes Louise Clute.
Alexi’s maternal grandmother was Agnes B. Burke (the daughter of Daniel Wyette Burke and Kate Bundy). Agnes was born in New Jersey. Daniel was the son of James Burke and Mary Sabrina York. Kate was the daughter of Nathan A. Bundy and Ella M. Hull. Nathan was the son of attorney and politician Solomon Bundy, who was a Republican Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York, from March 4, 1877 to March 3, 1879.
Alexi’s second cousins, twice removed, were lawyer and intelligence expert William Putnam Bundy and academic and U.S. National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy, and his first cousin, three times removed, was lawyer Harvey Hollister Bundy. Alexi is also a fourth cousin of politician Jake Auchincloss. Alexi’s maternal great-great-great-grandparents Solomon Bundy and Elizabeth Ann McGeorge, were also Jake’s paternal great-great-great-grandparents.
can someone find his mom’s family background?
”Miss Anne Harding, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Harding, Chestnut Hill and Clinton, N.Y., and Demetrius Panayotis Lalas, son of Panayotis Lalas and Mrs. Domna Kandili, Athens, Greece, were married in Clinton, by Dr. Jesse Lyons of Riverside Church, New York.”
The Boston Globe, September 3, 1967, p. 64
Alexi’s maternal grandfather was Henry Wilford Harding (the son of Benjamin Franklin Hall Jr. and Agnes Louise Harding). Henry was born in Michigan. Benjamin was the son of Benjamin Franklin Hall Sr. and Mary J. Allen. Agnes was the daughter of Henry Wilford Harding and Agnes Louise Clute.
Alexi’s maternal grandmother was Agnes Burke (the daughter of Daniel Wyette Burke and Kate Bundy). Agnes was born in New Jersey. Daniel was the son of James Burke and Mary Sabrina York. Kate was the daughter of Nathan A. Bundy and Ella M. Hull.
maternal grandfather (through his sister) – https://www.familysearch.org/tree/pedigree/landscape/L2VS-Y5P
maternal grandmother – https://www.familysearch.org/tree/pedigree/landscape/LRJZ-JT2
English, some Dutch, 1/32 Welsh, remote French
Alexi’s 3rd great-grandfather: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Bundy
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12139495
Thus, Alexi is related to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Hollister_Bundy
and to his 2nd cousins, twice removed:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGeorge_Bundy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bundy
-> English, at least 1/16 Irish, some Dutch, 1/32 Welsh, remote French
However his mother is 1/16 Welsh. This makes him 1/32