Cheryl
Cheryl in 2011, DFree / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Cheryl Ann Tweedy
Place of Birth: Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England, U.K.
Date of Birth: 30 June, 1983
Ethnicity: English, small amount of Irish
Cheryl, also known by her birth name, Cheryl Tweedy, or by her married names, Cheryl Cole and Cheryl Fernandez-Versini, is a British singer, dancer, television personality, and musician. She was a member of pop girl group Girls Aloud, along with Nadine Coyle, Sarah Harding, Nicola Roberts, and Kimberley Walsh.
Cheryl is the daughter of Joan (Callaghan) and Gary Tweedy. Cheryl’s ancestry is English, with some Irish. A picture of Cheryl with her father can be seen here. A picture of Cheryl with her mother can be seen here.
Cheryl has a son with her former partner, singer and songwriter Liam Payne.
Cheryl used the name Cheryl Cole, after marrying footballer Ashley Cole, and was legally known as Cheryl Ann Fernandez-Versini, after marrying French restaurateur Jean-Bernard Fernandez-Versini.
Cheryl’s paternal grandfather was Brian Tweedy (the son of William Purdy Tweedy and Nora Kelso). Brian was born in Northumberland South, Northumberland. William was the son of James Tweedy and Mary Ellen Tully. Nora was born in North Shields, Tyne and Wear, the daughter of George William Kelso and Mary Jane Laing.
Cheryl’s paternal grandmother is Margaret R. Bullock (the daughter of John Bullock and Margaret Parry). Cheryl’s grandmother Margaret was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.
Cheryl’s maternal grandfather was Joseph Callaghan (the son of Joseph Callaghan and Emma Wilkinson). Cheryl’s grandfather Joseph was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland. Cheryl’s great-grandfather Joseph had Irish ancestry, and was the son of Joseph Callaghan. Emma was the daughter of William Wilkinson.
Cheryl’s maternal grandmother was Olga Ridley (the daughter of Joseph Wilson Ridley and Edith Annie Burton). Olga was born in County Durham. Joseph was the son of Edward Fletcher Ridley and Emily Matilda Brown.
Sources: Genealogy of Cheryl – https://www.geni.com
Obituary of Cheryl’s paternal great-grandmother, Nora (Kelso) Tweedy – http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk
Marriage record of Cheryl’s maternal great-grandparents, Joseph Callaghan and Emma Wilkinson – https://www.familysearch.org
Cheryl’s appearance on Who Do You Think You Are?, 2016 – https://www.youtube.com
Information about Cheryl’s appearance on Who Do You Think You Are?, 2016 – http://www.dailymail.co.uk
You people are stupid. Yeah, just because north and western Europeans are generally lighter skinned and haired. That does not mean anything though! Search up antoniette nikprelaj on google – shes full Albanian (white) and she’s got dark features. That does not automatically mean she has some non-white in her. And what’s with the olive race you people have made up? There is not such thing as the olive race appart from white,black,asian.
Tanned is also white, but not european. I do’nt know why the hell people think she’s fully irish and scottish with this nose and this skin! she’s obviously mixed with a not european race or with sicilians. Many european girls have dark hair and dark eyes, but they don’t look tottaly eastern like Cheryl.
Your comment made zero sense. Tanned is also white, but not European? Do you mean people from the Middle East and North Africa are also white, but not European? Or what?
Anyway, I believe Cheryl is Irish and Scottish. They are plenty of people from that region of Europe who look like her. Look up Catherine Zeta Jones, Tom Jones, Frankie Sandford, Mick Jagger, Russell Brand, George Clooney, Marlon Brando, and other folks. My friend is also Irish, Scottish, and German, and she looks like Cheryl, and a lot of European girls look like Cheryl; a lot of them look even more different than her … look up Janice Dickinson, who is Belarusian and Polish, and Bjork who is Icelandic, and Antoinette Nikprelaj who is Albanian.
Your stupid. Im south european and have darker skin than her, brown hair and a button nose. but i am still white!
You are definitely stupid! If europeans cannot have dark features then black people cannot be light skinned. on that note, keri hilson is not pure black and neither is beyonce.
Elina, I think what you meant was African Americans are not pure. Which you’re correct. Same with white Americans. However we’re talking about someone from a European country that might have had admixture. To be honest, people who are 100% anything of any race are typically less attractive to me. I like diversity, which more than likely this woman has. A lot of Europeans find out that they have middle eastern and Asian ancestors.
well Americans that are only one race (not mixed – Whites, Blacks and Asians) sometimes have some other ancestry (under 10%, not much at all) but not all do. And you can’t say someone 100% one race is less attractive. You’re being arrogant.
PEOPLE! YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT US WHITES VARY FROM PALE SKIN TO TAN SKIN. JUST BECAUSE YOU’VE MET A LOT OF IRISH PEOPLE WHO ARE PALE THAT DOES NOT DETERMINE EVERYONE ELSE IN EUROPE. ITALIANS,ALBANIANS,GREEKS,SPANIARDS ARE ALL WHITE. JUST SLIGHTLY DARKER. CHERYL COLE IS WHITE! YOU CAN TELL SHE IS WHITE, YOU PEOPLE JUST TEND TO WANT TO AGREE WITH STEREOTYPICAL REASONS, NOT THAT YOU ACTUALLY AGREE WITH THEM. ITS STUPID. IM WHITE AND SHE LOOKS A LOT LIKE MY COUSIN WHO IS ALSO WHITE!
your right but give her a hispanic name and suddenly shes not white,just like magic,funny how that works.
@Rafael
hhaha so true
true but sad, especially since Hispanics aren’t a race.
A lot of Irish people have dark features, ever herd of the black irish?!?! Look at Kim Kardashians mom, she’s irish and dark. Gees you people are so steriotypical!
Totally, James. My grandmother was Irish, with Gaelic family names, and she had black hair, dark brown eyes, and olive skin. My sister is naturally dark skinned and people even asked if she was part-Indian! I am slightly lighter complected, but still with yellow undertones (and will tan) and have dark brown hair and hazel brown eyes. People have asked me if I am Greek, Turkish, Spanish etc…I am 100% British isles ancestrt as far back as i can trace (over 400 years on one side.)
and WASP is…?
Okay then. I’m going to wade in here.
I think she is English, Scottish, Irish with some arab admixture. Yes, I am aware that arabs are white. Newcastle has had an arab/yemini community for many generations.
I’m white with distant black jamaican admixture. My grandad’s great grandmother was mixed race, she moved to Liverpool from Jamaica with her white husband, who she’d met in Jamaica.
Ofcourse, this is just my guess, and I have no proof. I just think she looks slightly similar to my persian friend.
Arabs are just like everyone else,you have whitish to black;they just like to promote the whiter ones