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
There a big price on the Spanish Amanda in ulster museum Belfast and also in Galway conveniently in “Spanish quarter” an area in Galway for a country that didn’t have much Spanish invasion”as you say” seems to be a lots of Spanish historical links to this Ireland. Its kinda like saying the Irish never went to the Americas and held African slaves. Something when down. Back in the day. If Irish can mix with Italians they can mix with anyone. And it really wouldn’t put it pass a Spaniard male a traveller at that mixing with the local women: be it African,Irish,Asian. Don’t really make much different these days Irish men mixed with a lot of slave women back in the 1700’s hence family names.
On the surnames. As tracing ancestors isn’t always accurate as people change names or spelling or Anglicize names from original. Especially us black (decent from slavery) people we get give European names we cant even trace our native heritage or names. So maybe for you 100% untouched linage it all good.
Yes some people’s ancestry is difficult to trace especially in cases where names have changed. Luckily in countries like Ireland it is not difficult as the Irish have been using names since the 10th century. Even if you are Irish and think your family name is related to a certain Sept e.g. Ely O’Carroll or Brian Boru they can tell by your y-dna if you are or are not. Anyone with ancestry from the British Isles has a huge advantage with finding family connections through y-dna because they are so many Projects and such a lot of research been done.
If you had a non-Irish origin e.g. Spanish you would be able to know from getting the Big Y test.
If you are African American and had your y-dna tested they would be able to tell you if it was European or African and where its origin was from.
MyEthnicity – There has been a lot of dna studies on the Irish population and all the Spanish connnections have not left any impact on Irish dna.
Of course Irish mix with other people especially when they left Ireland but this is not about that. It is about Irish people in Ireland and their history. No one is saying that a Spanish man/woman or Irish didn’t mix or any other nationality. It is just not on a wide scale and has not had an impact on Irish genetics. Irish actually cluster more north to English on dna plots. The closest populations to the Irish are West Scots and Orcadians.
Just read you have some Jamacian ancestry. The Irish do have ties to Jamaica as many were sent their as slaves originally to work on the plantations. A Jamacian could quite possibly have Irish ancestry and many do.
The Spanish Armada did wash ashore in Ireland it is just that not many survived to pass on their dna.
Well it got people talking anyway and clearly dear chezza must of read the comments! She only gone & got married to a French/ Spanish mixed man!!! :) introducing MRS. Cheryl Fernandez-Versini Babies should arrive soon. And Spanish Amada 2014!!
Just thought ill post some history on early Irish population in general http://www.ireland-information.com/articles/blackirish.htm
being of Afro-Jamaican & white British with both my black grandparents having Irish (Name Dawkins) and Scottish (Cunningham) and a 1/2 Russian 1/2 Ukrainian husband. And a son born in Belfast Northern Ireland & we are currently moving to Galway Ireland this week we have been researching the island history and quite a lot of Spanish mixed with the Irish and even in general here in Ireland quite a lot of Irish connections might explain all the dark features. Manly men of Spanish decent & woman of Irish descent mixed very heavily in the middle ages due to the Spanish Amanda
All worthless pop-history and pop-anthropology. Should be disregarded.
Black Irish and the Spanish Armada is a lot of malarky as HaymarFox has said. You need to look beyond the myth and get factual information otherwise people just go around in circles posting inaccuracies on the internet.
If you look genetics and Irish history there is no history of Spanish in Ireland. What are you calling dark features by the way? Nothing wrong with connections to Spain but regarding Ireland it is just incorrect.
And now we know that Cheryl Cole is mostly English anyway so her being dark is not really relevant to the Irish anyway.
@MyEthnicity – If you read the link you virtually said that the Spanish Armada thing has no basis in fact.
Sorry it should say the article virtually said that the Spanish Armada thing has no basis in fact.
Here is the quote: “Another theory of the origin of the term ‘Black Irish’ is that these people were descendants of Spanish traders who settled in Ireland and even descendants of the few Spanish sailors who were washed up on the west coast of Ireland after the disaster that was the ‘Spanish Armada’ of 1588. It is claimed that the Spanish married into Irish society and created a new class of Irish who were immediately recognisable by their dark hair and complexion. There is little evidence to support this theory and it is unlikely that any significant number of Spanish soldiers would have survived long in the war-torn place that was sixteenth century Ireland.”
I agree with you alice, the whole spanish armada responsible for irish with dark features is a whole lot of crap, there wouldn’t have been enough of a mix for it to have spread and i’m just going to point out that spaniards are white europeans, even though in general they may have dark hair and eyes, there are significant amounts of people with a full spanish bloodline that have light eyes and to a lesser extent light hair not to mention many do have fair skin, antonio banderas’ complexion is found in spain but it’s hardly the majority that possess it.
Yes I agree people put too much emphasis on people’s colour of hair and eyes in judging what their ancestry is.
well i mean eye and hair colour can be an indication of a person’s ancestry but when it comes to europe it can be tricky because europeans can literally have any colouring. although british in general have light hair and eyes, brown eyes are hardly a rarity but they’re usually to the lighter side befitting the colour of hazel, dark brown eyes like cheryl’s are not common among pure blood brits. this woman is ambiguous, her phenotype does look predominately british and all records point to her having full blood british ancestry, but it is hard to believe someone like her is 100% anglo it’s as if she’d have some sort of distant arab, black or south asian ancestry that she’s unaware about which got selected in her
Spanish Armada is a legend, a bunch of survivors havent changed much the genetic makeup of a whole ethnic group, but it’s well known that populations from the Atlantic Coast of ireland, Iberia and France are genetically very similar.
well said andrew
Andrew they are not similar. If you look at any dna plots the Irish and Spanish plot well away from each other. The Irish plot with Scots and Orcadians. The Spanish plot with Southern French and Northern Italians.
http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/wp-content/blogs.dir/474/files/2012/04/i-bb3ac5b801b60400bded2397116d34e7-Europegenetics.jpg
http://scienceblogs.com/gnxp/2008/08/14/the-genetic-map-of-europe/
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/files/2010/09/euro51.png
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/09/genetic-differences-within-european-populations/#.U8aUCJSSx8E
they are closely related genetically alice
http://i.imgur.com/NGf6WSS.png
J.J. that is a map of y-dna haplotypes and if you notice the y-R1b is not broken down into subclades. Ireland has different subclades of R1b than Spain. My family’s paternal R1b is M222 Niall of the Nine Hostages. R1b is passed down from one ancestor and mutates very slowly. You can even join a surname project and in some cases your y-dna can link you to a specific dynasty or clan (if Irish or Scottish). It is passed down from father to son. It is nice to know your y-dna but it doesn’t show how close populations are genetically. You have to do autosomal tests to do that. The maps I’ve linked are of autosomal dna. Anyway here is migratory map of R1b. It doesn’t show all the different clades. Looking at the different types of y-dna a country has isn’t going to tell you much about the overall genetics of that country and in the case of Ireland and Spain the subclades are different anyway.
http://www.wdgolden.com/genes/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/YDNA-R1B-migration-path-across-time-500×341-jpg.jpg
Being Irish I’ve been looking into Irish genetics for years. I’ve had my dna done and some members of my family so while not an expert I’m not exactly clueless on the topic.
http://www.sott.net/article/263587-DNA-shows-Irish-people-have-more-complex-origins-than-previously-thought
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/1256894.stm
first of all the spanish armada never took over ireland as far as i know and learned in history.you people can’t accept the fact you can have dark hair/eyes and blame other cultures for it. not all the irish/english have light hair/eyes even if they do, they are descendants of the scandanavians (norway,sweden, denmark) you do understand if some spanish people may have darker feature in them is because the arabs took over Spain 500 years ago. and they mixed
Andrew that site has out of date information. Read up on genetics a bit more. A great site is Anthrogenica without the troll element. Some very knowledgable people post there. Some of them have written recent genetic books and some actually Administer y-dna Surname Projects. They really do know their stuff.
@strawberry20 It is not the Irish that have a problem with it but other people especially Americans and other non-Irish. Any Irish born person does not use the term “Black Irish” it has a completely American origin. No one in Ireland would question a person’s Irish origin because of their hair and eye colour. Most Irish have a combination of different colouring in their family. The Irish have quite diverse colouring and they all carry Irish/British dna not Spanish or Scandinavian. Blue eyes and blond hair does not mean Scandinavian and brunet hair and brown eyes does not mean Spanish. The same family can have this colouring along with red hair and green eyes. In Ireland there is no majority of hair colour but different combinations. A lot of people have a very shallow knowledge of genetics and rely on internet blogs that regurgitate old and inaccurate information. Don’t get your genetic information from Internet Blogs unless they actually have some genetics knowledge. Some good genetic blogs are Dienekes, Razib Khan and Davidsky. Dienekes and Davidsky are actually behind the Dodecad and Eurogenes admix calculators and decipher dna.
Andrew the article you linked is 2001. As I’ve said repeatedly it is old information based on the fact that Basque, Welsh and Irish have a majority R1b. This was before subclades were discovered and also when it was thought that R1b was a lot older. There is much more recent information available on this. As I’ve said a good place to learn about y-dna is to have yours tested if you can and enter a Surname Project. Otherwise there is loads of information on forums where Project Administrators post. A forum like Eupedia will give a good summary and breakdown of y-dna.
@Alice that’s basically what you’re saying that there’s no possibly way english/irish have dark hair/eyes, and the spanish armada are the only reason for it, like they’re responsible. first of all Cheryl Cole does Not even look remotely typical spanish or latin. I have a friend that he’s irish, he has dark hair and hazel greenish eyes he even said to me that the only reason they have redheaded people in ireland is because the scandanavians and Dutch took over and the men got pregnant the local women. stop talking shit you’re not even sure. spanish people can have light hair/eyes too. americans are so ignorant and called spanish non-white cuz they see alot hispanics in the U.S
@strawberry20
i don’t know what you’re on about but the Scandinavians are not responsible for red hair as red hair is more common in scotland and ireland than in the nordic countries, your friend with dark hair and hazel greenish eyes obviously hasn’t researched the topic. cheryl cole could pass for spanish quite easily. and Alice is saying that the spanish theory is not the reason, it’s obvious this woman isn’t 100% British, look at her, but whatever ancestry has given her darker features will remain unknown and it would have to be something a little more dark than spanish because as you’ve stated, spanish can have light hair and eyes too
@strawberry20 – I said the exact opposite. I said that dark hair/eyes in Ireland/Britain are native to the population. I think it’s a bit of nonsence to label people with dark hair/eyes in Ireland as of Spanish origin. The Irish have one of the highest incidences of red hair in the world along with Britain it has been there way before any Vikings.
I’ll repeat what I’ve said numerous times; you cannot tell someone’s origin by their hair and eye colour in European populations. To summarise very briefly Ireland was inhabited by people from Britain and Britain was populated by people from the lowlands and Northern France. There have been more recent incursions with various groups like Vikings, Anglo-Saxons, Normans etc. There has always been a mixture of hair and eye colours in these populations. Look up the People of the British Isles dna project for further information. I’m actually denying any direct Spanish connection in Ireland or Britain.
I’m a bit stumped strawberry20 how you can come away with the exact opposite of what I have written.
@alice
one thing i’m going to disagree with you on, is dark hair and eyes being native to britian, it’s unlikely dark hair and eyes were native to any part of europe because otherwise europe wouldn’t look the way it is today due to light features being recessive, it’s more likely that light features are native to europe and it’s through thousands of years of mixing and invasions which has brought upon dark features and the different looking people in europe
Light eyes are a genetic mutation that originated with a single individual. Unless that individual was from the British Isles, which doesn’t appear to be the case, then everyone who lived on the British Isles at the time would have had brown eyes (unless no one lived there then). More to the point, every other person in the world at the time of this mutation would have had brown eyes. There was no group of entirely light eyed people that just came out of the sea off of the Norwegian coast that way, despite what some people want to believe. Light eyes spread in higher frequency in Europe because of natural selection.
light eyes and hair are recessive, it’s extremely hard to believe that blonde hair and blue eyes occured from ONE ancestor, because it would have been bred out instantly. the first people to inhabit europe would have had to have been blonde haired and blue eyed because outherwise europe would all be dark haired and dark eyed today. I’m not set on any theory as to why europe looks the way it does, but the albino theory makes more sense than the ONE ancestor theory
One ancestor is what researchers say. Besides, Europeans are descended from a (relatively) very small set of ancestors, especially going back thousands of years.
I’m not talking about light hair, just light eyes. They’re not the same thing.
Many other recessive mutations no doubt disappeared very quickly, but this one didn’t.
blonde hair and blue eyes would not have appeared separately, they would have appeared together within a particular tribe of people. this whole blue eyes occurred with ONE ancestor and blonde hair occurred with a different ancestor makes no sense, you can’t always believe what “researchers” say because many researchers have different theories and are usually wrong, if blonde hair and blue eyes were dominant traits then that theory would make sense
Why would light hair be connected to light eyes? They don’t come from the same gene.
@J.J. i did not just said that Scandanavians are responsible for red hair, i also said dutch too. in Netherlands has a huge population of people with red hair more than ireland and scotland. you must be on crack that you think Cheryl Cole could pass for Spanish and you’re right she doe not look British too. Cheryl Cole could pass for filipino and thai. like Chrissy Teigen google her if you don’t know her they look pretty similar… plus she’s norwegian and thai
@strawberry20
haha! i’m on crack? cheryl looks thai or filipino? she’s clearly not asian, she looks white, just not fully british. She looks like she could have a number of things like spanish, moroccan, black, gypsy, eastern european etc but she still looks white. and netherlands does not have more red headed people than ireland and scotland, scotland has the most red heads in the world. do your research
Blue eyes are a separate mutation than blond hair. That is why you can have blue eyes and any hair colour. La Braña man discovered in a Spanish cave 2 years ago had blue eyes and dark skin. He was an intact 7,000 skeleton.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com.au/news/2014/01/140126-blue-eye-spain-fossil-human-discovery-gene/
There are no populations that are just blue eyed. A brown eyed person is just as European as a blue eyed person and eye colour has nothing to do with your nationality.
well phenotypes and pigmentation have nothing to do with anyone’s nationality but it does relate to a person’s ethnicity/genetic makeup. Blonde hair, blue eyes and fair skin are all related when it comes to the “white” race as they’re all malfunctions in the genes which produce pigmentation, there’s no way one day a person with blue eyes, dark hair and dark skin went to europe and came into contact with someone who had blonde hair, dark eyes and dark skin and then the two of them came across a third person with fair skin, dark hair and dark eyes and suddenly BOOM! They would have had to occur all at once and with more than one person otherwise as i’ve said it’s recessive! the mutation would not have lasted thousands of years and have spread so vastly to over a billion people who possess light features today. This is just common sense, you can show me a million studies with the world’s top scientists stating blue eyes occurred with ONE person and studies showing that they found remains of a person in spain who had dark skin and light eyes, because in the end it’s all theories and most of the time theories are incorrect, i could go find people in spain today who have relatively dark skin and light eyes, it’s hardly uncommon, maybe try the middle east or north africa, you’ll come across light eyes with dark skin there easily. It’s a very silly topic to debate, recessive features do not spread to such an immense population from a single ancestor. Europeans and debatably middle easterns once upon a time all had blonde hair, blue eyes and fair skin and only through thousands of years of invasions and mixing has caused all the different peoples that exist today of the white race, that’s the best theory to make out of observation and a reasonable understanding of recessive genes. If light features were not native to europe, then they wouldn’t be common among them, full stop.
@J.J Ok so if she could pass for spanish just mention anyone in particular and I can mention tons of biritish/american with british roots that she looks alike too. BTW she looks mixed white and asian. also what do you have against spanish people by defining them as dark hair/eyes by making seen like people with light hair/eyes are the best, and when they’re really are not dark hair/eyes. people with originally darked hair/eyed comes from the middle east, africa and southeastern/east asia and spread all over
@strawberry20
i don’t know what you’re babbling about but it’s very clear you’re not the brightest spark or you’re just very immature, this womans phenotype does look british, i never denied her looking white i just think she doesn’t look 100% british, yet you’re saying she does look british like “british americans” but then you state she looks part asian? i have nothing wrong with spaniards and many spaniards do have light features but in general they possess dark hair and eyes. people from the middle east are white and can have light features too, so i don’t know where you’re getting your ridiculous theories from.
Unless you a referring to ancient migration from Iberia which definitely DID happen in Ireland, hence Portuguese bronze age earrings being found and Iberian style tombs (Newgrange.) The dna of Ireland appears to be related to West Coast movements not later than 2000BC and probably earlier in many cases; R1b is the most common y-dna in Ireland as it is amongst the Basques of Spain. Overwhelmingly so. They both have extremely highly amounts of O rhesus negative blood too.
The most common hair colour in Ireland is dark brown–43%. A further 3% have black hair. The most common hair colour in Wales is dark brown also, and many Welsh people are brown eyed. In Britain as a whole some shade of brown hair predominates and non-blue eyes (hazel, green, brown, amber, mixed) account for just under HALF. Prior to Saxon and viking incursions the amount of light hair and eyes was probably even less. EVERY European, after all, was brown eyed till about 8000 years ago and very light haired is also a later arrival.
The Irish are also overwhelmingly a blue eyed population and hair colour is mostly brown not dark brown. Most Irish have a different shade of brown than what is found in Southern European countries and skin type.
From this medical study the commonest eye colours were blue (59%) and green (21%). The commonest hair colour was dark brown (36%) and light brown (31%).
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02944190#page-2
Here’s a group photo of a protest from the South-West of Ireland and apparently from where Irish are darkest. Notice that most have a shade of brown hair.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/526311_10151105227840806_374742799_n.jpg
None of what you have said above proves that Irish are descendants of Iberians. R1b is all over Western Europe and the oldest and most diverse is found in France and Germany not the Basque; also you have to look at the clades. Below is an age estimation of R1b-L21 by country. (R1b-L21 is by far the most common y-dna in Ireland). Notice where it is older and so the origin.
Population … TMRCA,years
France ……. 4200±530
Germany …… 4100±530
Scotland ….. 4050±460
England …… 3850±425
Ireland …… 3375±360
Spain …….. 3250±780
Wales …….. 2875±420
Scandinavia .. 2725±410
Newgrange is older than Stonehenge and the Egyptian Pyramids. What connection does it have to Iberia? Newgrange also shares many similarities with other Neolithic constructions in Western Europe, such as Maeshowe in Orkney, Scotland[6] and the Bryn Celli Ddu in Wales.
Portuguese bronze age earrings show trade which obviously happened. Roman goods have been found in Ireland and we know the Romans didn’t invade Ireland.
Why do Irish cluster with Northern Europeans away from Iberians? Can you offer an explanation? If there is an Iberian connection where is it in their dna? You can’t use R1b as that doesn’t even show a connection as I’ve shown above and R1b is a tiny fraction of your genome. Also L21 is very small in Iberia. The most common clades in Iberia and rare in Ireland and the most common clade in Ireland is small in Iberia and also younger than what is found in Ireland. It’s like saying that because R1a is in India and Polish have high amounts of R1a that they descend from Indians.
http://nextnature.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/genetic_map_of_europe_530.jpg
Please put in some links to back up your argument.
The Irish as well as the British have a genetic connection to France and not Iberia but Britain and Ireland also have a connection to the low countries e.g. Netherlands, Belgium etc. This is obvious to anyone looking at dna studies. Also look at the proximity of countries to places like Ireland. Where are the Irish most likely to come from? The island next door and before that the lands closest to Britain or the more distant Iberia? Have a look at the genetics and you will get your answer.
stonelord have a gander at this article. It is a very in-depth ongoing study called The People of the British Isles Project (PoBI). It is conducted by scientists at Oxford University. It has been done in Britain and they hope to do the same in Ireland. Anyway it gives you a good idea of the genetics of the place.
http://www.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk/features/what-makes-british
Her ethnicity is inaccurate. Her mom is Middle Eastern, Haitian, and Filipino and her father is English, Irish, Scottish, and Moroccan.
Source?
Troll..
I’m a troll because I asked for a source? What?
I don’t think that was directed to you ash
She has no Middle Eastern Haitian Moroccan or even Filipino in her not even a drop she is 100% White i have Filipino in me i also have English and Irish in me i actually more than Nationalities than i think i have i also Scottish Welsh and Italian in me somewhere.
Your ancestry is not relevant to this discussion.
@roman2886
you can’t have more than one nationality, your nationality is where you’re born, what you mean to say is you have more ethnicities than you think
no way i’ll believe she’s fully a pasty british islander