Justin Timberlake
Timberlake in 2011, kathclick/bigstock.com
Birth Name: Justin Randall Timberlake
Place of Birth: Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
Date of Birth: January 31, 1981
Ethnicity: English (mostly), as well as some Irish, Scottish, and Welsh, distant Dutch, French, German, and Jersey/Channel Islander
Justin Timberlake, also known as JT, is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, actor, director, and record producer. His best known songs include “Cry Me a River,” “Rock Your Body,” “SexyBack,” “My Love,” “What Goes Around… Comes Around,” “Suit & Tie,” “Mirrors,” “Can’t Stop the Feeling!,” “Filthy,” and “Say Something.” He has had leading roles in the films Model Behavior, Edison, Alpha Dog, Black Snake Moan, Southland Tales, Shrek the Third, The Love Guru, The Open Road, The Social Network, Yogi Bear, Bad Teacher, Friends with Benefits, In Time, Trouble with the Curve, Runner Runner, Inside Llewyn Davis, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, the Trolls franchise, Wonder Wheel, and Palmer, and appeared on The All-New Mickey Mouse Club. He was a member of boy band NSYNC, with Lance Bass, JC Chasez, Joey Fatone, and Chris Kirkpatrick.
Justin is the son of Lynn (Bomar) and Randall Timberlake, a choir director at a Baptist church. He is of mostly English, some Irish, Scottish, and Welsh, and distant Dutch, French, German, and Jersey [Channel Islander], ancestry. He is married to actress Jessica Biel, with whom he has two children.
There is a claim that Justin is a descendant of Henry Timberlake, an explorer born in Virginia, c. 1730, who had apparently had children with a Native American woman. The publicly available family trees of Justin Timberlake, however, show him to be a patrilineal descendant of Richard Timberlake, who was born, c. 1736, in Lancaster County, Virginia. Justin is thus not a descendant of Henry Timberlake, at least through that line.
Justin’s patrilineal line traces to Francis Timberlake, who was born, c. 1687, in London, England.
Justin’s paternal grandfather is Charles L. Timberlake (the son of John Denham Timberlake and Gladys Lucille Martin). Charles is a Minister of the Shelby Forest Baptist Church in Millington, Tennessee. John was the son of Charles Mitchell Timberlake and Eva J. Pirtle. Gladys was the daughter of Colley Edward Martin and Sarah Virginia “Sallie” Hargrove.
Justin’s paternal grandmother is Bobbye/Bobby Joice Williams (the daughter of Robert Lee Williams and Katherine Heneritta “Katie” Morris). Robert was the son of Robert Lee Williams and Annilee Sullivan. Katherine was the daughter of Clarence Morris and Frances Arnold.
Timberlake in 2007, image courtesy of Flickr
Justin’s maternal grandfather was William Silas “Bill” Bomar (the son of Silas Bryant Bomar and Lois Aileen McCraw). William was born in Tennessee. Justin’s great-grandfather Silas was the son of Robert Lee Bomar and Martha Jane “Mattie” Lumpkin. Lois was the daughter of William Gabriel/Gabrielle McCraw and Allie Blanche Bomar.
Justin’s maternal grandmother is Sadie Lee Timbs (the daughter of Clarence Andrew Timbs/Timms and Susan Florence “Susie” Joyner). Sadie was born in Tennessee. Clarence was the son of James Samuel Timbs/Timms and Lelia Eva Stocks. Susan was the daughter of Levi Ellis/V. “Lee” Joyner and Annie Demetra George.
Sources: Genealogies of Justin Timberlake – http://www.geni.com
http://freepages.rootsweb.com
More of Justin’s Timberlake ancestry – http://www.angelfire.com
Genealogies of Justin’s paternal great-grandparents, John Denham Timberlake and Gladys Lucille Martin – https://www.findagrave.com
Justin’s paternal great-grandparents, Robert Lee Williams and Katherine Heneritta “Katie” Morris, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Justin’s maternal grandfather, William Silas “Bill” Bomar, on the 1940 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Obituary of Justin’s maternal grandfather, William Silas “Bill” Bomar – http://www.findagrave.com
Genealogy of Justin’s maternal great-grandmother, Susan Florence “Susie” Joyner – https://old.findagrave.com
It looks like he can be part Jewish.
Why not entirely Jewish? You might as well go all the way.
If believe rootsweb.ancestry.com, his German ancestor was born by French parents, and Justin also Scottish and Dutch. http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=dowfam3&id=I106291
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT_nXFxQPAs
In the clip he plays his own great great grandfather who is
immigrating from Ireland. Andy Sandberg also plays his own GG grandfather who is on the same boat.
He has a Native American ancestor from the 1700’s. So he has distant Native American ancestry.
Therefore, he is biracial like Megan Fox, Hillary Clinton, Anne Hathaway, Hilary Swank, Julia Roberts, Ashlee and Jessica Simpson, Quetin Tarantino, and Kevin Costner.
Hmmmm….can you still call yourself biracial if the other race is so diluted in your bloodstream? I mean if I was 95% Japanese and 5% African could I still say I was biracial. I always thought that biracial meant you were 50/50 something while mixed race was used if the percentages were not in a 50/50 situation. I could be wrong. Even so, if I’m white and it was my GGGGG Granmother that was NA it’s a bit of a stretch to classify myself as mixed race. I think a lot of American celebrities either event or ‘play up’ very distant NA ancestry as they think this will make them seem exotic. I have an American friend who is almost full Choctaw and it drives him mad when celebrities ‘discover’ that their GGG Grandmother was NA – and mostly always it’s Cherokee!
@Anya
(Hmmmm….can you still call yourself biracial if the other race is so diluted in your bloodstream? I mean if I was 95% Japanese and 5% African could I still say I was biracial.)
I don’t see why not,it’s still two different bloodlines.Where did all these rules come from anyway?There are a few islands out there full of people who say they’re bi-racial,(and I’m willing to bet,they’re not all 50/50),more like every combo in the book
(I always thought that biracial meant you were 50/50 something while mixed race was used if the percentages were not in a 50/50 situation. )
Says who?What if you parents are blk and white in appearance,but your white parent is 15% NA,and your Black parent is 20% white(like an avg blk person here) .So are you still bi-racial or now mixed race ?Your parent are still black and white in appearance.I ask because this is America,1/3 of the white population avg 2-20% black.The black population is up to 50%,maybe more.Also each side claims to be mixed with NA.So how many are actually 50/50?
give me official data about that 1/3 of American white population that’s s avg 2-20% black
Yes, that can’t be right. I have looked at genealogies of almost every major American actor. The only ones who are “white” and have black ancestry are Shailene Woodley, Hailee Steinfeld, and Penn Badgley, and maybe a handful of others. And I am not sure they are “white” to begin with (maybe Penn).
If a significant amount of Americans had black ancestry of 2% to 20%, this admixture would have to have been documented by genealogists at some point. Having a black ancestor in the 1700s wouldn’t amount to that large a percentage, and even then I haven’t really seen such mixtures documented to any significant degree.
major American actors are not representative of all “white” Americans (what about the descendants of Irish, Italian and other waves of immigrants in the 1800s) and those 3 names are not major yet. I am very dubious Badgley has any non-european heritage. In other cases it’s too distant to have relevance in physical appearance (Woodley expecially)
I think American actors are representative of a wide enough sampling of Americans, including of course Irish, Italian, and so on. Badgley’s great-grandfather was Jamaican, and was at least mixed race to some degree. Anyway, my point is that the percentage of “white” Americans who have 2%-20% black ancestry is very small.
I meant there are more chances of some racial mixing in ppl whose ancestors arrived in 1600 or 1700s than in the descendants of more recent immigrants
I know, and I was referring to both types of people.
@andrew
(give me official data about that 1/3 of American white population that’s s avg 2-20% black)
NOPE,boring
@fuzzybear
ahhahah!
@follers
This actually isn’t what I thought people would get worked up about.However since you guys are fixated on it fine.I basing that statement on results,by Mark D. Shriver and his fellow geneticist Bryan Sykes(who stated every white person he test in the south was part black).Also on my personal knowledge of what creoles did in the past.I mean I stated this before,Creoles often pass for full whites,and married whites(example,George Herriman and Anatole Broyard ).According to Broyard page,they est.150,000 creoles sailed away permanently into whiteness during the 1940’s alone.This is what some of the slave children looked like in the 1800’s:
http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/6858/1022943.jpg
You don’t get children like that,without some continued mixing.
(If a significant amount of Americans had black ancestry of 2% to 20%, this admixture would have to have been documented by genealogists at some point.)
It is being documented.Plus not even white know everything about their families.There were a lot of fires in the past,that burn up records.Sometime people don’t ask about their families,they just make assumptions.Take me for instance,I didn’t know I had a white granddad.I saw this mans picture everytime I went to my grandmothers house,and never bother to ask who he was.
(Having a black ancestor in the 1700s wouldn’t amount to that large a percentage, and even then I haven’t really seen such mixtures documented to any significant degree.)
I see your stuck in the 1700’s,probably thinking laws stop these kind of relations.It didn’t stop anything,white people did what they wanted.Take this family here,check the date:
http://mulattodiaries.wordpress.com/2010/06/21/black-mother-white-children/
Massachusetts actually allowed this type relation up to 1913.There were other states actually repealed their laws,and encourage black and white relationship(no i can’t remember the names right now).However you wouldn’t have people like( P. B. S. Pinchback),if that type of relationship weren’t going on.People like Adella Hunt Logan would have existed:
http://0.tqn.com/d/womenshistory/1/0/J/N/2/adella_logan.jpg
or
Mariah “Cherokee Mariah Lilly” Hunt Hunt:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=94968787
this is her father:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=19471382
Most Politicians were known to be in these types of relationship.Ones like (Richard Mentor Johnson),just didn’t care:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Mentor_Johnson
There were multiple communities of mixed race families living in place like Montana.I can’t remember the rest,going on the fly here.All i can say,is that the 1/3 thing is,probably pretty accurate.I have to cut this short,I have to feed someone.
George Herriman and Anatole Broyard were mostly overall in the 20th century (not that people didn’t pass for white before that). What are examples of famous “white” people with documented African-American/Creole/etc. ancestry to the 2%-20% degree? There are very few. I think famous people are a decent sample of the American population. Famous people’s genealogy is often documented and researched, so black ancestry would come up. If it’s so rare, then it must be rare among the whole American population.
P.S., what I meant with the 1700s, is that if a “white” person had a black ancestor in the 1700s, it wouldn’t be even 2% of their ancestry.
Anyway, when you say, “stated every white person he test in the south was part black”.
Perhaps it is something like this:
“The genetic analysis also discovered that all eight Jewish populations in the PLoS study contained three to five percent African DNA sequence patterns”, and “A parsimonious explanation for these observations is that they reflect a history in which many of the Jewish groups descend from a common ancestral population which was itself admixed with Africans”.
http://www.icr.org/article/genetics-analysis-jews-confirms-genesis/
That doesn’t mean that Ashkenazi Jews had black ancestors in the 1700s. It just means ancient African DNA (from over 2000 years back, as the study states). Perhaps it is the same for all these white people they are testing that come out part black. Ancient African ancestry, not something that has to do with America’s history.
@follers
(What are examples of famous “white” people with documented African-American/Creole/etc. ancestry to the 2%-20% degree? There are very few.)
That’s the whole point of passing ,they didn’t want to be documented.They wanted to live their lives as white people,why would they tell anybody.Look at carol channing,when she found out about her dad,she kept it quiet until old age. Adah Isaacs Menken,made up all kinds of stories about what she was.People like Robert Purvis didn’t mind nor did Romare Bearden. Elizabeth Keckley didn’t mind:
http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/4527/elizabethkeckley2g.jpg
there were schools full mixed kids,like (Wilberforce University)You want me to give other names of people,but that’s the whole point.These people change their lives,so they wouldn’t be known.We know know about these few people because they screw up,and their children or grand kids are talking.That’s where they got all the ideas for movies like(pinky,imitation of life,feast of all saints).Here are two more families whose children pass for white,Robert & Mary Lumpkin:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Digs-Devils-Half-Acre.html
and
Silas & Corinna Omohundro:
http://citation.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/5/2/2/0/8/p522081_index.html
This is for andrew,I thought it would be funny
abraham lincoln:
http://creekside5thgrade.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/abraham-lincoln.jpg
and his brother who couldn’t pass:
http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/43/1022853.jpg
@follers
(Perhaps it is something like this:
“The genetic analysis also discovered that all eight Jewish populations in the PLoS study contained three to five percent African DNA sequence patterns”, and “A parsimonious explanation for these observations is that they reflect a history in which many of the Jewish groups descend from a common ancestral population which was itself admixed with Africans”.
http://www.icr.org/article/genetics-analysis-jews-confirms-genesis/
That doesn’t mean that Ashkenazi Jews had black ancestors in the 1700s. It just means ancient African DNA (from over 2000 years back, as the study states). Perhaps it is the same for all these white people they are testing that come out part black. Ancient African ancestry, not something that has to do with America’s history.)
No the man was pretty clear about what he said in the video.He even made a joke about,if the one drop rule was still in practice,all those southern whites would be black.Now maybe I’m wrong,but judge for yourself 4:56 mark:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jTAueCy4O0
@ fuzzybear
I know how Lincoln looked. He had no brothers
“That’s the whole point of passing ,they didn’t want to be documented”
-But they can’t help it. There would be evidence on paper, usually, that either they, their parents, or certainly their grandparents, were black. Genealogists would find this.
For all the people you named, there are no doubt records about them or a recent ancestor being black.
@andrew
(I know how Lincoln looked. He had no brothers)
It was just kidding man,lighten up
@follers
(-But they can’t help it. There would be evidence on paper, usually, that either they, their parents, or certainly their grandparents were black. Genealogists would find this.
Ok lets say that.However, how often do Genealogists go digging around in regular peoples lives.The only reason we’re discussing these people,is because they’re famous.Then what if there’s nothing to find,like this kid was adopted(and no one ever knew his/her real parents).What I’m saying,is there are two many variables
(For all the people you named, there are no doubt records about them or a recent ancestor being black.)
Ok,but why do we even know about them at all.It’s because unlike the vast majority of people who passed,they didn’t break ties with their families. Although they lied about who they were to the outer world,such Anatole Broyard claiming he was greek,and George Herriman I think said he was Jewish,they never broke ties with their families.Anatole Broyard didn’t even change his name,which was a common thing to do when you were leaving.although,he never told his children the true.If his daughter hadn’t written about it,we wouldn’t be talking about him now.
But I am talking about famous people. It is hard to believe that 1/3 of white Americans have black ancestry but only 1/30 of white American actors do (or something along those lines). I think actors are at least a somewhat reasonable sample of the population.
So you’re saying some would be hard to trace because they changed their name? Well, again, I’ve looked at a genealogy of every major white actor (and have put most on this site), and no one has been hard to trace for that reason. Breaking ties with your family also won’t stop your genealogy from being traced.
@follers
( It is hard to believe that 1/3 of white Americans have black ancestry but only 1/30 of white American actors do (or something along those lines). I think actors are at least a somewhat reasonable sample of the population.)
Well again I’m not the one making these statements.It’s the Geneticists that are making these statements,I just happen to agree.Now if more than one Geneticist is saying this stuff,it must some truth to it.
(So you’re saying some would be hard to trace because they changed their name? Well, again, I’ve looked at a genealogy of every major white actor (and have put most on this site), and no one has been hard to trace for that reason. Breaking ties with your family also won’t stop your genealogy from being traced.)
Not just their names,but everything.People here change their names,get new birth certificates etc.Why do think you on these Dna shows,they can only go back so far.Also like I said, what if there is no genealogy to trace.Just how many celebs do you have information on?
@follers
I have another question,I was looking at he tree.I see the names,but where is the part that tells you these people are blk/white,or asian etc?
“Just how many celebs do you have information on?”
-All major ones.
It is pretty easy to tell if someone is white, black, or Asian, after going back several generations. It may not be apparent with one or two generations, but beyond that it’s pretty obvious (and censuses list race, and eventually they would end up black).
Anyway, this discussion seems kind of pointless and not Justin-related.
@follers
Okay sorry to waste your time.Anyhow will be taking a break from commenting for a few months,see ya
Are you sure?won’t be the same place without ya.
Hmmm I always thought he was jewish..from canada