Anna Paquin
Paquin in 2011, photo by DFree/Bigstock.com
Birth Name: Anna Hélène Paquin
Place of Birth: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Date of Birth: July 24, 1982
Ethnicity:
*father – French-Canadian, German
*mother – Irish
Anna Paquin is a Canadian/New Zealand actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Piano (1993). She has also starred in Jane Eyre (1996), Fly Away Home, A Walk on the Moon, the X-Men films, Darkness, Trick ‘r Treat, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, and The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler, and the series True Blood, among other works.
Anna was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and was raised in Wellington, New Zealand. She is the daughter of Mary and Brian Paquin. Her father is Canadian, and is of French-Canadian and German descent. The surname Paquin is French. Her mother is from New Zealand. Anna has stated that her mother’s family were all Irish immigrants.
Her brother is director Andrew Paquin. Anna is married to English actor Stephen Moyer, with whom she has two children.
Anna is the first millennial, and the first person born in the 1980s, to have been nominated for an Academy Award for acting, and is also the first person fitting either or both descriptions to win (with her Best Supporting Actress Oscar for 1993).
Anna’s paternal grandfather was Albert Paquin (the son of Adélard Paquin and Marie/Maria Allaire). Albert was born in Saint Jude, Québec, and was French-Canadian. Adélard was the son of Paul Joseph Paquin and Marcelline Phaneuf. Marie was the daughter of Charles Allaire and Marie-Josephte Malboeuf/Malleboeuf dite Beausoleil.
Anna’s paternal grandmother was Agnes Tuckwell (born Agnes Janzen, the daughter of Johann J. “John” Janzen and Helena Unrau). Agnes is the daughter of ethnic German parents whose families had lived in Russia. Johann was the son of Johann Janzen, who was born in Mariapol, and of Anna J. Toews, who was born in Schoenfeld, Bergthal. Helena was the daughter of Albert Unrau/Unruh and Margaretha/Margareta Schellenberg, who was from Molotschna/Molochna, a Mennonite settlement in Russia, in what is now Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine.
Anna’s maternal grandfather’s surname was Brophy.
Sources: https://mobile.twitter.com
Genealogy of Anna Paquin – https://www.geni.com
Anna’s paternal grandfather, Albert Paquin, on the 1911 Canada Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Anna’s paternal grandfather, Albert Paquin, on the 1926 Canada Prairie Provinces Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Obituary of Anna’s paternal grandmother, Agnes (Janzen) Paquin Tuckwell – https://passages.winnipegfreepress.com
Obituary of Anna’s paternal great-grandfather, Johann J. “John” Janzen – https://newspaperarchive.com
Her German side is the most visible
Not really.
Correction:
For some reason my comment does not go through when I post a link from the website “genforum”. Anna Paquin is 1/256th English through Albert Paquin, who is a descendant of Matthias Farnsworth. If you google “Anna Paquin Matthias Farnsworth” there are many discussions on forums among people who have traced her ancestry to Farnsworth. The story of how Farnsworth wound up in Quebec is also available online.
I was going by this family tree, obviously partially incorrect, which lists her maternal grandmother as a “Turkwell”.
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=lmoody43&id=I118633
Thank you for the corrections! If you know anything else about Anna’s ancestry (or that of anyone else), please drop a line in.
No problem, I’m happy I could help. I think you can still list her as Dutch though because her grandmother’s maiden name is Jansen.
As it turns out, her paternal grandmother’s Jansen family isn’t of Dutch descent. Maybe Paquin doesn’t have Dutch ancestry at all, despite saying she does.
Why isn’t her paternal grandfather, Albert Joseph Paquin, listed?
Is he her paternal grandfather? All these family trees list him as having been born around 1889.
Maybe I could believe it (60 year-old men have children, sure), except these trees list Agnes Jansen as born in the 1800s as well, and if so that’s not the right woman, who is the one I have listed.
She mentioned this on Twitter:
“my grandparents on mum’s side were all 1st gen Irish immigrants to be born in New Zealand.” https://twitter.com/AnnaPaquin/status/586672685461012480
So it should be like this:
*father: French-Canadian, Dutch
*mother: Irish
Her maternal grandparents could be (not entirely sure but it seems likely):
Desmond Lewis Brophy and Winifred Mary (Winnie) Babe from Auckland, NZ.
Winifred’s parents were William Harold Raymond Babe and Mary Josephine Danaher.
William Harold Raymond Babe was the son of John Babe from Ballynacarrick, Donegal, Ireland and Margaret Jane Gunson from Ulverston, Lancashire, England.
Mary Josephine Danaher was the daughter of Thomas Joseph Danaher and Mary Catherine McWeeny from Ireland.
Desmond Brophy’s parents were John Patrick Brophy and Mary Moore.
John Patrick Brophy was the son of Michael Brophy and Norah McCarthy from Dublin or Tipperary, Ireland.
(Michael Brophy and Norah McCarthy’s emigration to NZ: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-6PWC-ZT8?i=56&cc=1609792&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AFS13-M2G)
Her maternal grandparents could also have been Joseph Patrick Brophy and Cecilia Margaret Fleming. Although Joseph and Cecilia would have been in their 50s when Mary was born.
Could it be the geni.com tree has the wrong Albert Paquin and Agnes Jansen?
Could this be the right Agnes Jansen (Aganetha Janzen): https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPR8-XFM6
She’s described as dutch and born in 1919 in Manitoba, Canada.
Her parents Abram Janzen and Katharina are from Russia.
This Albert Paquin (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP5L-16CC) is described as French and was born in 1915 in St. Boniface, Manitoba, Canada.
His parents are Frederic Paquin and Olivine Bibeau from Quebec, Canada.
Frederic was born in 1882 as the son of Adelard Paquin and Marie Allaire (https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/G3LF-HJP)
The right Agnes Janzen has already been found.
That was her paternal grandfather, after all. He really was born around 1889, and Paquin’s grandmother was his second wife.
@follers Oops my bad. I guess I didn’t see Agnes’ Obituary.
That obituary wasn’t there at the time, although the other stuff on her was. And she was of German descent, not Dutch.
I would still say that she was of Dutch descent as Janzen is Dutch-Prussian surname. So, maybe write it as French-Canadian, German and distant Dutch, or French-Canadian, German-Dutch (Russian Mennonite)?
https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Janzen_(Jantzen,_Janssen,_Jansson,_Jansen,_Johnson,_Jansz,_Janz,_Jantz,_Jans)_family
Correction:
Her maternal grandmother’s surname is not Turkwell. That is not an official surname. Her paternal grandmother Agnes Jansen remarried and became Agnes Tuckwell. This can be seen here:
http://openparliament.ca/debates/1994/3/25/ronald-j-duhamel-1/
as well as here:
http://passages.winnipegfreepress.com/passage-details/id-65619/name-Lorraine_Savoie/
lol soookie !!!
correstion; Her eyes are a honey or amber colour hazel eyes means she would have specs or gold and green in her eyes but she just has light brown eyes.
correction; Her eyes are hazel and hazel eyes are just a light brown!
Hazel eyes are the most misunderstood eye color, true hazel eyes are eyes that are a light golden brown colour resembling that of a hazelnut (hence the word hazel), they can contain minimal green when observed in good lighting however green is by no means a requirement. There is a modern North American misconception that hazel eyes are any eye that’s green and brown or multi-coloured that appears to shift in colour (blue, grey or green with brown around the pupil) however this does not make sense due to a hazelnut not presenting any green, blue or grey whatsoever. In Europe (the origin of light eyes and hazelnuts) the true/original meaning is still used; hazel eyes = eyes that resemble the colour of a hazelnut.
source:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hazel
http://hazeleyes-wintergoddess.blogspot.com.au/2009/07/hazel-eyes.html
http://m.rateitall.com/iPhone/item.aspx?p=0&ItemID=1074601
Her eyes are dark brown.
http://images.fanpop.com/images/image_uploads/Anna-Paquin-anna-paquin-197743_1280_1024.jpg
http://www.famefacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/anna-paquin-wallpaper-3.jpghttp://bilder.poster.net/LRG/10/1061/7UML000Z.jpg
http://static.becomegorgeous.com/img/arts/2009/Oct/17/1388/anna_paquin_2.jpg
Even in bright light her eyes are almost black. I don’t understand how somebody could possibly say her eyes are hazel! The poster I replied to says all brown eyes are hazel and all blue eyes are grey or green/grey. More pics of Paquin:
http://media.celebrity-pictures.ca/Celebrities/Anna-Paquin/Anna-Paquin-263580.jpg
http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2011/HEALTH/05/30/anna.paquin.cover/t1larg.anna.paquin.gi.jpg
correction; seriously are stupid or just ignorant? posting very small and unclear pictures as proof of her eyes not being hazel? her eyes are clearly a light golden brown
http://images.fanpop.com/images/image_uploads/Anna-anna-paquin-560201_1749_1920.jpg
http://www.moviepilot.de/files/images/0486/9330/Anna_Paquin.jpg
http://www.thewallpapers.org/photo/44317/Anna-Paquin-037.jpg
Being rude isn’t going to make you correct. The pictures I posted aren’t unclear. If you’ve seen any of Anna Paquin’s work you’d know the pictures you posted are the lightest Anna’s eyes can get and are at least medium brown. THIS is light golden brown
http://saloona.co.il/geneticcounselor/files/2012/12/t3ywn0ra9nqcljuvek7.jpg
no, that’s a green-ish brown, golden brown is light brown with yellow/orange tones, green is not a requirement for true hazel eyes, seriously this website needs to stop listening to corrections by sceptics who choose too contest nearly every single correction. Hazel is a light honey brown and green with brown around the pupil is forest green, why don’t the people on this website examine pictures themselves so they don’t have to listen to ignoramus’s like smiley who choose not to believe something right in front of them