Joe Manganiello
Manganiello in 2012, photo by Prphotos
Birth Name: Joseph Michael Manganiello
Place of Birth: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Date of Birth: December 28, 1976
Ethnicity:
*paternal grandfather – African-American, Irish
*paternal grandmother – Italian Sicilian
*maternal grandfather – Dalmatian Croatian
*maternal grandmother – Armenian, German
Joe Manganiello is an American actor, producer, director, author, and narrator. He is known for playing Alcide Herveaux on True Blood, and for his roles in the films Magic Mike, Sabotage, Archenemy, and, as Flash Thompson, in Spider-Man, among many other works.
Joe is the son of Susan Catherine and Charles John Manganiello. His paternal grandmother was of Italian descent, from Sicily. As an adult, Joe discovered that his paternal grandfather was of mixed African-American and Irish ancestry. Joe’s maternal grandfather was of Dalmatian Croatian ancestry, and Joe’s maternal grandmother was of German and Armenian descent. A picture of Joe with his parents can be seen here.
A DNA test whose results were displayed on the show Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2023) stated that Joe’s genetic ancestry is:
*93% European
*7% Sub-Saharan African
Joe’s biological paternal grandfather was the son of William Henry Cutler and Nellie Alton. Joe’s great-grandfather William was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and was African-American. He was the son of William H. Washington and Nancy A. Somers/Sommers, and a great-grandson of Plato Turner, who was born in Africa, and was taken into slavery in the U.S.; Plato later became a free man, fighting in the American Reolution starting in 1776. Joe’s great-grandmother Nellie was born in Washington, D.C., and was white, with Irish ancestry. She was the daughter of John Alton and Mary Hurley.
Joe’s paternal grandmother was Marie Rose Bonanno (the daughter of Giuseppe/Joseph Bonanno and Rose Correnti). Marie was born in Connecticut, to Italian parents, from Messina, Sicily. Giuseppe was the son of Santo Bonanno and Carmela Aveni. Rose was the daughter of Carmelo Correnti and Maria Trifiletti.
Joe’s legal paternal grandfather was named Emilio “John” Manganiello. Emilio was born in Pennsylvania, to a family from Avellino, Campania. As an adult, Joe discovered via Finding Your Roots that Emilio was not his biological grandfather.
Joe’s maternal grandfather was Nicholas Francis Joseph Brachanow (the son of Ante/Marko/Marks/Michael Bračanov/Brachanow and Kata/Kate “Catherine” Jelavčić/Jelovčić/Jelnick/Yarosa/Yelobchich/Jelovich). Nicholas was born in Massachusetts, to Dalmatian Croatian parents from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, likely Murter, Jezera. Marks was the son of Nikola/Nicola Bračanov and Matija Baresin. Kata was the daughter of Jakov/Jacov/Jack Jelovčić and Tonka/Anntonet Lovresko/Lovesko.
Joe’s maternal grandmother was Sirarpi/Sirapi “Sondra” Tateosian/Tatouchian (the daughter of Karl Wilhelm Beitinger/Beutinger and Terviz/Tevris/Tarvez “Rose” Darakjian). Sondra was likely born in Samatya, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire. Kerl was born in Heilbronn, Germany, and was the son of Rudolf Beitinger and Catharina Jakobine Albrecht, and the grandson of Johan/Johann Heinrich Beutinger and Catharine Friederike/Friedrike Reischle. Rose was likely born in St. Stephens, Harpoot, Ottoman Empire, the daughter of Vartan Darakjian and Mariam Kachadourian.
Joe has said, discussing his maternal great-grandmother:
…April 24 was a very special day because it is the centenary of the 1915 genocide (when the Turkish government deported and exterminated millions of Armenians). My great-grandmother escaped that same year when her entire family was murdered… [She swam] across the Euphrates River with her last baby on her back. But when she got across the river, she saw that the baby had drowned. She ended up living in a cave until some German soldiers found her and one of them got her pregnant. They went to Germany where she had an Armenian-German baby daughter. This was my grandmother. She lived on the streets of Constantinople for three years, until she gathered enough money to go to the United States, where she eventually married. That’s the story of my great-grandmother and grandmother.
Manganiello in 2010, photo credit: Ronald Woan
Sources: http://www.grazia.it
http://www.vanidades.com
https://mobile.twitter.com
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https://www.irishexaminer.com
Genealogy of Joe Manganiello – https://www.geni.com
Joe’s paternal grandmother, Marie Rose Bonanno, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Birth record of Joe’s maternal grandfather, Nicholas Francis Joseph Brachanow – https://www.familysearch.org
Joe’s maternal grandfather, Nicholas Francis Joseph Brachanow, on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Marriage record of Joe’s maternal great-grandparents, Ante/Marks/Michael Bračanov/Brachanow and Kata/Kate “Catherine” Jelavčić/Jelovčić/Jelnick/Yarosa/Yelobchich – https://www.familysearch.org
Obituary of Joe’s maternal grandmother, Sirarpi/Sirapi “Sondra” (Tateosian/Tatouchian) Brachanow – https://www.newspapers.com
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/pedigree/landscape/L5N9-4R5
according to this, Jakov/Jack Jelovčić and Tonka/Anntonet Lovresko/Lovesko were from Bosnia.
I found his parents’ marriage announcement again, and Manganiello’s maternal grandfather was Nicholas Francis Joseph Brachanow, whose parents were the same couple listed here before.
But Mary Alexanian definitely wasn’t Manganiello’s grandmother. She was Armenian, and she was married to Manganiello’s grandfather’s brother, Francis Brachanow – who had the same name as Manganiello’s grandfather. But they weren’t the same person.
So it seems both brothers married Armenian women.
so who is his maternal grandmother? Did Brachanow Bros have the same three names?
Her first name is Sondra
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K4JR-NQC
Census says father born in Germany, mother born in Armenia.
I have a feeling this is the same woman:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XQTZ-BGC
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J6Z8-Q6B
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPH1-Y3T8
It is the same woman.
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/43329271/brachanow_sondra/
Joe’s maternal grandmother was Sirapi/Sondra Tatarian (born Tatouchian, the daughter of Rose/Tevris). Sondra was born in Istanbul, Turkey.
Harry Tatarian was her step-father. I don’t think he should be in the article.
So who was his biological great-grandfather? The German soldier?
I don’t know. The only census that mentions a German father is the 1940 one that I posted in 2018. Rose came with just Sondra on the boat. She married Harry in the US. When I researched it before, I could even find their marriage record (it had Rose’s parents names). I can’t find it anymore. I don’t know if it’s because it’s gone, or because familysearch search option went haywire since the update. Tatouchian is deffinitely Rose’s first husband’s name (the one who was presumably killed in the genocide).
The 1940 census you linked doesn’t mention a German father, or a father at all. Are we referring to the same census?
I just checked again, and yes it does.
https://imgur.com/a/4ybDgio
Says father’s birth place is Germany, mother’s is Armenia and her language is Armenian.
Okay, we’re not looking at the same record, this one is a completely different photo than when I view it. On the one I’m viewing, the surname is listed before first name (and Sondra only has a line where the surname would be, since her husband is on the row right above her), “relation” comes after “name” (the category “place of birth of father and mother” doesn’t even exist), and below Sondra, there’s a woman named Nettie A. Westwood. Is the photo you linked what you see when you click “View the original document”? Because it’s not what I see.
Look at the bottom of the page.
Had never seen that.
*Italian/Sicilian (father)
*Croatian, Armenian, possibly German (mother)
Add that he is the son of Susan C. and Charles J. Manganiello. And the Austrian tag can be removed.
little correction:
*Joe’s father’s family is Italian (from Campania and Sicily)
also, is this man related to Joe? https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=43417809
follers:
Mangianello himself states that he has Croatian ancestry. Are you saying he’s lying?
What? He is listed as part Croatian.
I was replying to what follers said the page before.