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
The truth!
You guys are just low lives who are jealous of white people! If that wasn’t the case then why do we have non whites begging beautiful european women? Its stupid. She is european end of!
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Really?
There is no need to impersonate me.
She looks mildly Mediterranean. So does her mother, who I think actually looks like a combination of Eastern and Southern European. I think she is just one of those “exotic” British types, like Catherine Zeta Jones, George Clooney, Colin Farrell, Tom Jones, Gerard Butler, Marlon Brando, Frankie Sandford, Russell Brand, etc. etc.
She is pretty not a fan of her music. But she is Irish /Scottish cool
Darn it ! ‘White’ as in Caucasian people can be any color ! The Dravidians of Southern India & Sri Lanka are genetically white yet Dravidians are really genetically close to Australian Aborigenes and if you see Australian Aborigenes have almost black skin.
Also, the Celts, native inhabitants of the British isles were short, olive skinned and dark haired & eyed by the way.
No one really knows what the Celts looked like as people are still disagreeing on what is a Celt. If you look at the British Isles though the majority of people are not dark haired and dark eyed. The majority of people in the British Isles are fair skinned and blue eyed. There is more fair hair in England but more blue eyes in Ireland. Where did the dark eyes and olive skin go? There are some people with these characteristics but not the majority.
Most people from the British Isles have brown hair, though, not blonde. A lot of people in Ireland have brown hair and blue eyes, so you are right about that.
about 49% of native British people have non-blue eyes actually (brown,hazel,green), with highest amounts of brown in Wales and the West Country. This is the very old ‘Atlantic’ area, which was settled by peoples from Iberia from at least the neolithic and probably before. Irish people are bluer eyed but darker haired,with over 40% having dark brown hair,and estimates of black/nr black hair running from 3-10%. Paler skin is common, but there is a more olive-skinned type that’s not uncommon either.
Genetic studies show that Irish people are the palest in the world.
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Irish#Hair.2C_skin_and_eye_colour_statistics_in_Ireland
Ireland has a majority of 43% dark brown hair and about 3% black. Blonde and red hair combined only makes up a quarter of the Irish population. The remaining 27% are light and medium brown haired, so overwhelming brown haired overall.
The Welsh are also darker haired rather than light, as are the Cornish and they are the most likely to be brown eyed. (Over all 49% of native Britons have non-blue eyes–brown,hazel, green,mixed.)
The eastern English and some Scots in areas where vikings/Saxon incursions were heavy are blonde, but overall, most have some shade of brown hair.