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
She appears dark because her background is of the original population of Britain- the Ibero-Celts. They are the related to the Spaniards. She is, in fact, what a “true” Brit looks like, before the Anglo-Saxon invasion.
She isn’t even Anglo Saxon, can’t you read? She is Irish and Scottish, therefore she /is/ a Celt. If she were English, that’s when you could talk about Anglo Saxons and how her look is the look of the original Brits, and that those roots prevail making her seem more Celtic than A-S.
PS: And stop embarrassing yourself, Celts are not related to the Spaniards and are not originally from the Iberian Peninsula. I’m majoring in English language and literature and therefore we have the subject ‘Social and cultural history of the UK’ basically everything happening on the B. Isles from the Paleolithic period till today (this is because of the fact that English is from, as its name suggests, England and we need to learn everything about its start and what the English people went through). So basically I for sure know that the Celts are originally from what we know today as Germany, France and Switzerland and in the Iron Age they spread towards the B. Isles, Spain, Italy and the Balkans, but were replaced by the arrival of the Slavs (on the Balkans) and whatever tribe came to Spain and Italy, with them eventually surviving only on the British Isles. So yeah, they aren’t.
haha, sorry but that is real 1950’s anthropology. No archaeologist believes in a ‘celtic’ invasion from central Europe into Britain nowadays. There may have been a few tribal migrations into England, perhaps a small Belgic one to Ireland, but the majority of the people we now called ‘celts’ (the people of the Isles & Bretons) come from migrations in the neolithic and EBA (with particular emphasis on the western seaboard) the Beaker people whose origins appear to be in Portugal have been found as (so far) the earliest carriers of y-dna R1b (Atlantic). Their culture appears to be proto-celtic and it is likely their language was too. See Prof Barry Cunliffe–Celtic from the West.
You can’t use genetics and speak of Celts as one people. There is a dna connection with the present “Celtic” countries e.g Ireland, Scotland, Isle of Man, Wales, Cornwall and Brittany and they all speak an Insular Celtic language. Even Brittany’s language is closely related to Cornish and not Gaulish because the Breton language was introduced into Brittany by Celts from Cornwall fleeing the Anglo-Saxons in the 5th century. Celts though used to be rather far flung and it looks like there was just an elite takeover of countries and people took on the culture. There was not widespread population movements with people bringing their dna with them. That is why it is incorrect to talk about a “Celtic look”.
As I’ve said in previous comments on here genetics prove no movement of Iberians into the British Isles. The dna connections are with Northern France and the low countries. I’m also getting tired of people attributing dark hair and brown eyes /or blond hair and blue eyes to certain populations. All populations have dominant and recessive genes. (I’m talking specifically about European populations here). Some populations due to various reasons like natural selection, environment, bottlenecks, survival of the fittest etc have different combinations in their population and certain genes will pop up. It doesn’t mean that because some British person has dark hair and brown eyes that they aren’t British genetically.
Galicia is a Celtic country too. About Celtic language, it’s really spoken just in Wales.
Galicia doesn’t have the genetic connection that the others do and hasn’t spoken a Celtic language for centuries.
Ahem Andrew they speak Gaeilge in Ireland and it is the official language of Ireland along with English. Every Irish student has to learn it. While the majority of people do not speak it every day most Irish people have a knowledge of the language. It also is a language that has been continuously spoken in Ireland for well over a 1,000 years. It has never died out. There are also some places in Ireland called the Gaeltacht where people speak Irish as a first language. It is a bit of an ongoing battle to keep these areas alive in the modern era. The Welsh language is part of the Brythonic Celtic languages similar to Breton and Cornish. Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx are Goidelic Celtic languages. In fact the Republic of Ireland is the only sovereign nation which has a Celtic language as its official language.
There are no continental Celtic languages that have survived into the modern era only the insular Celtic languages of the British Isles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaeltacht
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insular_Celtic_languages
An interesting read on the definition of Celtic by Prof Peter Beresford Ellis. This is the definition used by the Celtic League. He also explains why Galicia was rejected.
“Now before we go further, and because of the misguided criticisms that have been made of the Celtic League over the years, let me explained what is meant by Celtic. In the Celtic League it is meant to describe one of six historic nationalities which spoke a Celtic language until modern historical times. It’s that simple.
As Professor Eoin Mac Neill pointed out nearly a century ago – there is no such thing as a Celtic race; any more than there is a Latin race, a Teutonic race, nor a Slavic race. We are all branches of the Indo-Europeans linguistic family – so race is largely a delusion. The only accurate way to define Celtic is by language and attendant culture.
A Celt is simply one who speaks, or is known to have spoken within the modern historical period, a Celtic language.
That is why the League has had to consistently reject overtures to recognise Galicia in north-west Spain as a Celtic nation. There are more Celtic loan-words in English and in French than there are in Galician. Galician is a Romance language and closely related to Portuguese. It is not a Celtic language and Celtic has not been spoken in Galician territory since the 10th Century.”
http://www.cornwall24.net/2011/10/cornish-celts-exist-says-prof-peter-beresford-ellis/
Some more wood for the pile re the erroneous Basque and Celt connection.
This is a Wiki article discussing the program Blood of the Irish.
While the programme was being finished the landmark paper Balaresque et al. was finally published in early 2010 by the Public Library of Science. This argued that the Y-chromosome similarity between most Irish and Basque men related to local population histories, and not to a common Mesolithic hunter-gatherer origin. The true origin is found to have arrived with Neolithic farmers after the Ice Age, and a common mutation from the original happens to have survived most in Irish and Basque males compared to the rest of western Europe.[10] The Basque-Irish genetic similarity therefore arose much later than the programme suggested, and was the result of genetic drift within each population, not from a prehistoric migration from Iberia to Ireland.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_of_the_Irish
Please everyone update your sources and possibly do a bit of research on the subject. Unfortunately a lot of incorrect information is just copied An Infinitum from the net and people don’t look any further into the subject to verify the accuracy.
If anyone looks at genetics closely the Irish and British don’t cluster anywhere near the Spanish on dna plots. This should be a clue that there isn’t really a close connection.
Funny to see white people getting all defensive about Cole. No one wants Cheryl you can have her. But you’re the same people who will go on other celebs and say they are 100% white or something else when they’re clearly not.
Britain and Ireland have connections with the Atlantic coast countries of Europe like Spain, France, Netherlands, Belgium and Norway genetically but not so much with Italy and no connection with Egypt at all. People forget that black hair and brown eyes are in every country.
Here is Cheryl’s audition tape for Popstars. She doesn’t look so tanned in this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=UpWus7NUeyY
black hair doesn’t actually exist, if you’re referring to the darkest hair colour, that would exist among non-caucasians, one could debate non-existent among european populations
that turkish chick has a similar color but cheryl cole face looks british/european not middle eastern like the chick you posted. and no she doesnt look like a turk or iran persian they look different, middle eastern. its the tanned color that is fooling you….. its like hispanic in the USA look like some italianms there but the face gives it away (hispanic have native features unless they are mostly euro)
Here is Cheryl as a young child:
http://cherylanncole.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/cheryl-cole-child-pictures-180×270.jpg
She cannot po
She cannot possibly be just Irish and Scottish.
She must be mixed with Portuguese.
Or gypsy.
Or Persian.
Oh I guess I must be too then, despite my father’s ancestry dating back to 1560 England and my mother’s (Irish) to the early 1800’s. Lots of people look like this in Britain, especially in the ‘celtic’ areas.