Britney Spears
Spears in 2011, Helga Esteb / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Britney Jean Spears
Place of Birth: McComb, Mississippi, U.S.
Date of Birth: December 2, 1981
Ethnicity: English, as well as 1/16th Maltese, small amounts of Scottish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Irish, French, and Welsh
Britney Spears is an American pop singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress.
Britney is the daughter of Lynne Irene (Bridges) and James Parnell “Jamie” Spears. She is the sister of film and television producer Bryan Spears and actress and singer Jamie Lynn Spears. She has two children with her former husband, dancer, rapper, model, and actor Kevin Federline.
Britney’s maternal grandmother was an English war bride, and one of Britney’s maternal great-great-grandfathers was Maltese. Most of the rest of Britney’s recent ancestors were American-born, with most of her roots being English, along with Scottish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Irish, French, and Welsh, all of them distant or remote to various degrees. Some of Britney’s distant English ancestors lived in Barbados and Liberia.
Britney’s paternal grandfather was June Austin Spears (the son of June Becker/Bacot Spears and Nova Gill). Britney’s grandfather June was born in Amite, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana. Britney’s great-grandfather June was the son of Pascal Greene Spears and Mary Pauline Bridges. Nova was the daughter of James Monroe Gill and Effie Strahan.
Britney’s paternal grandmother was Emma Jean Forbes (the daughter of William Nelson Forbes and Lexie/Lexis May Thompson). Emma was born in Mississippi. William was the son of William Nelson Forbes and Kiturah/Katuriah Leona Ball. Lexie was the daughter of Ernest Fulton Thompson and Bertha Magee.
Britney’s maternal grandfather was Barnett Oldfield/O’Field “Barney” Bridges (the son of Joel Menton Bridges and Addie/Adeline/Addy Williams). Barnett was born in Louisiana. Joel was the son of James Jack Bridges and Mary Josephine Phillips. Addie was the daughter of Marshall E. Williams and Missouri E. Wall.
Britney’s maternal grandmother was Lilian/Lillian Irene Portell (the daughter of George Anthony Portelli/Portell and Lilian Esther Lewis). Britney’s grandmother Lilian was born in Barkham Road, Tottenham. George was the son of Edward Richard Portelli, who was from Malta, and of Alice Taylor. Britney’s great-grandmother Lilian was the daughter of James Lewis and Esther Moss. Britney’s Maltese great-great-grandfather Edward was the son of Antonio Portelli; it is possible that Edward was of Italian ancestry, like many people on Malta.
Britney’s parents are third cousins. Two of Britney’s paternal great-great-great-grandparents, William Lee Bridges and Pauline Ann Travis, were also two of Britney’s maternal great-great-great-grandparents.
Sources: Genealogies of Britney Spears – http://www.wargs.com
https://www.geni.com
http://familypedia.wikia.com
http://famouskin.com
http://freepages.rootsweb.com
Genealogies of Britney’s paternal grandparents, June Austin Spears and Emma Jean Forbes – http://www.findagrave.com
Article about the family of Britney’s maternal grandmother, Lilian/Lillian Irene Portell – http://www.dailymail.co.uk
Article on Britney’s ancestors, including photos of grandparents Lillian Portell and Barnett Bridges, and great-grandparents Lillian Lewis and George Portell/Portelli:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1056674/EXCLUSIVE-First-photos-Britney-Spears-newly-discovered-British-family.html
actually she looks like judy garland(100% british)
http://www.blogcdn.com/celebrity.aol.co.uk/media/2010/07/dorothybritneyrexgetty430.jpg
Judy Garland had English, Irish and Scottish heritage.
Also that is a wax figure in the picture, Judy Garland did not look exactly like that.
All of those heritage are BRITISH.
Judy garland with blonde hair looks exactly like younger Britney Spears https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/16/f0/c9/16f0c9cfb5ec8db5494b0994816994d0.jpg
Liza Minnelli is only 1/8 Italian (Sicilian) and Britney Spears has 1/16 Italian (Sicilian) or Maltese ancestry. Not much to be effective on her look.
She has no Jewish ancestry? I am starting to wonder if this was photo shopped! https://radioislam.org/photos/celebrities/Britney_Spears-Star_of_David.jpg
No she does not. I remember that at the time of that picture (it was in the tabloids) she was dating a Jewish man, but did not convert.
Okay thanks I forgot about that. Britney Spears is really pretty and looks like Mindy Sterling a little bit. Although I don’t think they are even distantly related being that all Mindy Sterling’s ancestors 500-1000 years back were Ashkenazi Jewish and Britney Spears doesn’t have any Jewish ancestry that far back. God bless genealogy :)
Which Mindy Sterling? The only one I can think of is the comedienne. She looks nothing like Britney.
Lynne Spears, Britney’s Mom, Gets Court Order Barring Sam Lutfi From Anti-Semitic Allegations
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/18/lynne-spears-britney-sam-lutfi-court-order-anti-semitic-racist-comments_n_1978925.html
She has cherokee from her father side
1880 census of Newton Co., AR. states that John T. Spears’ father was born in Va., as was his mother Sallie (a researcher notes, however, that other sources give their births as NC/SC/GA.)
In 1839 he left farm in Bedford co., TN and moved to (AL? Ark.?)In 1850 he is living with all his known children in Jefferson township, Carroll Co., Ar.
John Spears had always been a farmer, but in 1844-46 he was the coroner for Carroll Co., Ar.In 1864 he moved to Springfield, Mo., but in 1867 back to Arkansas, to Newton County.
He married 1st circa 1823 (probably in N.C.) Agnes (Agnekas, “Aggie”) White, daughter of Serrul/SURREL “EAGLE” WHITE (b. in10-29-1809 NC) and Susannah LANKFORD.She was part Cherokee.: http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/spears/2527/
and she has told yall http://www.indianz.com/ict/showarchive.asp?id=spears
She didn’t tell us anything. That’s a joke article put out on April Fool’s Day.
How is Britney Spears descended from John T. Spears? According to these trees, she isn’t.
http://www.wargs.com/other/spears.html
https://www.geni.com/people/Britney-Spears/6000000001928499407
“There were other Spears in Osyka and Kentwood, but from the names, Britney Spears’ family obviously belongs to the line above.”
Yes
you are right, my link was publicated at 2002 and she prob is not descendent from John T.
http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/spears/2527/
But, who knows?