Emma Corrin
Birth Name: Emma-Louise Corrin
Place of Birth: Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, U.K.
Date of Birth: 13 December, 1995
Ethnicity: English, Cornish, Irish, Scottish, Manx, Dutch, German, around 1/64th Italian, remote Belgian Flemish, Spanish, and Sephardi Jewish
Emma Corrin is an English actor. Among Emma’s roles are the series Pennyworth, The Crown, Ten Percent (2022), and A Murder at the End of the World, and the films Misbehaviour (2020), Lady Chatterley’s Lover (2022), My Policeman, and Deadpool & Wolverine; as well as stage performances.
Emma’s parents are Juliette, a speech therapist, and Chris Corrin, a businessperson. Emma’s mother is from South Africa.
Emma’s paternal grandfather was Eric Stanley Corrin (the son of James Corrin and Minnie Gunn). Eric was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England. James was born on Ballasalla, Isle of Man, the son of James Corrin and Margaret Kermode. Minnie was born in Liverpool, the daughter of William Gunn, who was from Inverness, Scotland; and of Sarah Mansell, who was from Shropshire.
Emma’s paternal grandmother was Hazel A. Daukes (the daughter of Wilfred Hicks Daukes and Cecile Nelly Paulus/van Pauwvliet). Hazel was born in Weymouth, Dorset, England. Wilfred was the son of The Rev. Samuel Whitfield Daukes and Lydia Hicks Peek. Emma’s great-grandmother Cecile was born in Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands, the daughter of Josiah Paulus van Pauwvliet, who had small amounts of Belgian Flemish, Spanish, and Sephardi Jewish, ancestry; and of Cecile Arnoldine Carp, whose father was from Dusseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Emma’s maternal grandfather was Edward Henry Robert “Bob” Womersley (the son of John Samuel Womersley and Mary Ellen Boyle). Edward was born in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa, to parents from England. John was the son of Pelham Bertwhistle/Birtwhistle Womersley and Charlotte Stollery Cayzer. Mary Ellen was the daughter of Sydney Cuthbert Boyle and Ellen.
Emma’s maternal grandmother was Rosemary Joan Sibbald (the daughter of Dr. Douglas William Sibbald and Silvia Emilia Trillia). Rosemary was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Douglas was born in Mulgrave Street, Wellington, New Zealand, the son of William Robert Fraser Sibbald, who was from Stockbridge, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland; and of Joanna Flanagan, who was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, to Irish parents, with roots in Birr, Offaly. Emma’s great-grandmother Silvia was born in Buenos Aires, the daughter of Robert Fessey/Fessy Trillia, who appears to have been of one quarter Italian and three quarters British Isles descent; and of Helen/Elena “Chulita” Nicholson, whose own father, Henry Richard Nicholson, was from Enniskillen, co. Fermanagh, Ireland, and whose own mother, Mary/Maria Potash, was born on Gibraltar. Mary’s father, Francis Potash, was from Oradea, then Hungary, now Romania.
Sources: https://twitter.com
Genealogy of Emma’s maternal great-grandmother, Silvia Emilia Trillia – https://www.eayrs.com
Mary Potash father was Romanian-Jewish from Oradea:
https://www.eayrs.com/genealogy/webcards/ps01/ps01_202.html
How do you know he was Jewish? Francis isn’t a very common Jewish first name.
Potash is a Jewish family.
If you dont believe he was Jewish, what he was then? Oradea was home of a Jewish community too.
The first four people listed here don’t seem particularly Jewish.
https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&q.birthLikePlace=poland&q.surname=Potash%20
He could have been Hungarian, Romanian, Polish, or another Slavic group. Last names and their spellings get changed over generations.
Kinda agree about those people though here we have a man with a very Jewish surname from a town with a big Jewish community, thus he was hardly Hungarian or Romanian. There are some profiles in this site of people with Potash ancestors, or from Oradea, and are all Jewish (including a Israel PM). Francis Potash was 99% Jewish IMO.
Thus she would be around 1/64 Ashkenazi Jewish.
Emma’s paternal grandfather was Eric Stanley Corrin (born to James Corrin and Minnie Gunn). Eric was born in Wallasey. James was born in Ballasalla, Isle Of Man. Minnie was born in Liverpool to a father from Inverness, Scotland and a mother from Shropshire.
Emma’s paternal grandmother was Hazel A Daukes (born to Wilfred Hicks Daukes and Cecile Nelly Paulus). Hazel was born in Weymouth, Dorset. Wilfred was English. Cecile was Dutch, born in The Hague and of distant Belgian and Spanish descent.
Her father is likely either Manx or Irish, she attented a Catholic school too.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrin_(surname)#:~:text=Corrin%20is%20a%20surname%20of,%2B%20the%20ethnic%20designation%20Finnr).
On this live, Emma said her grandma is argentinian https://twitter.com/DEBICKlRBY/status/1397684421860511746