Diamond Dallas Page
Page in 2007, photo by Prphotos
Birth Name: Page Joseph Falkinburg, Jr.
Place of Birth: Point Pleasant, New Jersey, U.S.
Date of Birth: April 5, 1956
Ethnicity: German, Dutch, English, Irish, Scottish, likely around 1/16th Ashkenazi Jewish
Diamond Dallas Page is an American professional wrestler, fitness/yoga instructor, motivational speaker, and actor. He has appeared with the WWE. He is also known as DDP.
Diamond Dallas is the son of Sylvia and Page Falkinburg. He chose the name Dallas after the Dallas Cowboys football team. He has two children.
Diamond Dallas’s paternal grandfather was John William Falkinburg (the son of George W. Falkinburg and Florence M. Devere). John was born in New Jersey. George was of Dutch descent, and was the son of John W. Falkinburg and Anna E. Florence was born in Ireland, to Scottish parents.
Diamond Dallas’s paternal grandmother was Sarah Jeanette “Sally” Wilson (the daughter of Joseph Wilson and Martha Stevenson). Sarah was born in England, to Irish parents.
Diamond Dallas’s maternal grandmother was Doris Annette Lipshultz (the daughter of William Theodore Lipshultz and Emma A. Chapman). Doris was born in Massachusetts. William was born in Boston. William’s father, Albert Phineas/Phinneas Lipschultz/Lipshultz, was the son of a father, Theodore Lipschultz/Lipshultz, who was from Germany, and of a mother, Gertrude Phineas, whose family was from Poland; the family was likely Jewish, though it appears several members were Catholic by the time of their death in the U.S. William’s mother was Mary E. Hannaford, whose paternal grandparents, and mother, were Irish. Diamond Dallas’s great-grandmother Emma was the daughter of George W. Chapman and Annette/Nanetta/Anetta J. Wilfert, whose own parents were German.
Diamond Dallas’s maternal grandfather was Fred/Friedrich Anton Seigel (the son of Anton Seigel and Theresia/Tresa Straub). Fred was born in Karlsruhe, Germany, and may have been a step-grandfather. Anton was the son of Alois Seigel and Maria Anna Schmitt. Theresia was the daughter of Joseph Straub and Genovefa.
Sources: Marriage record of Diamond Dallas’s paternal grandparents, John William Falkinburg and Sarah Jeanette “Sally” Wilson – https://familysearch.org
Diamond Dallas’s paternal grandfather, John William Falkinburg, on the 1910 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Diamond Dallas’s paternal great-grandfather, George W. Falkinburg, on the 1900 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Marriage records of Diamond Dallas’s maternal great-great-grandparents, Alois Seigel and Maria Anna Schmitt – https://www.familysearch.org
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Marriage record of Diamond Dallas’s maternal great-great-great-grandparents, Dominik Seigel and Felizitas Sträubig – https://www.familysearch.org
Birth record of Diamond Dallas’s maternal great-grandfather, William Theodore Lipshultz – https://www.familysearch.org
Diamond Dallas’s maternal great-grandfather, William Theodore Lipshultz, on the 1910 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Marriage record of Diamond Dallas’s maternal great-great-grandparents, Albert Phineas Lipschultz/Lipshultz and Mary E. Hannaford – https://www.familysearch.org
Diamond Dallas’s maternal great-great-great-grandmother, Gertrude Phineas, on the 1850 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Marriage record of Diamond Dallas’s maternal great-great-grandparents, George W. Chapman and Annette/Nanetta/Anetta J. Wilfert – https://www.familysearch.org
I’m not sure Fred Seigel was actually his biological grandfather. For one thing, grandma Doris is living in Quincy, MA in the 1940 census with 2-year-old Sylvia Lipschultz, in the household of Doris’ uncle. Doris didn’t marry Fred Seigel until 1967!
Ancestry.com. New Jersey, U.S., Marriage Index, 1901-2016 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016.
Diamond Dallas’s paternal grandfather was Fred/Friedrich Anton Seigel (the son of Anton Seigel and Theresia Straub). Fred was born in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Diamond Dallas’s maternal grandmother was Doris Annette Lipshultz (the daughter of William Theodore Lipshultz and Emma Chapman). Doris was born in Massachusetts. William was the son of Albert Phineas Lipschultz and Mary E. Hannaford. Emma was the daughter of George W. Chapman and Annette J. Wilfret.
There’s a marriage record on ancestry for Anton and Theresia in Karlsruhe, but I can’t access it.
It lists their parents’ names. The family was Catholic.
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZ93-3DV
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MKBJ-9RF
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9N3-WJC
Acc. to the marriage record both Joseph Wilson and Martha Stevenson were born in Ireland.
Self high five.
Correction.
DDP has mentioned a few times that one of his great grandmothers was Jewish. I believe he’s mentioned it most recently in a TMZ interview.