Louis Tomlinson

Tomlinson in 2011, Featureflash / Shutterstock.com

Birth Name: Louis Troy Austin

Place of Birth: Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, U.K.

Date of Birth: 24 December, 1991

Ethnicity: English, as well as 1/16th Belgian Flemish, more distant Channel Islander and Irish

Louis Tomlinson is a British singer, songwriter, actor, and footballer. He is a member of boy band One Direction, along with Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, and, previously, Zayn Malik.

Louis is the son of Johannah Lee (Poulston) and Troy Austin. He is of mostly English descent, with more distant (to varying degrees) Belgian [Flemish], Channel Islander, and Irish, ancestry. His sister is model, author, and makeup artist Lottie Tomlinson, who founded self-tanning company Tanologist.

Louis has a son with stylist Briana Jungwirth.

Louis’s maternal grandfather is Leonard Poulston (the son of Leonard W. Poulston and Edna E. M. Hatton). Louis’s grandfather Leonard was born in Hemsworth, Yorkshire, England. Louis’s great-grandfather Leonard was the son of Sidney Poulston and Florence Beatrice Monks. Edna was the daughter of Joseph Hatton and Josephine Caroline Van Egghen/Vanegghen; Josephine was Belgian, of Flemish background, making Louis Tomlinson of 1/16th Flemish-Belgian ancestry.

Louis’s maternal great-grandmother is named Olive M. Mitchell.

Louis’s Poulston line can be traced back to his maternal great-great-great-great-grandfather, William Jacob Poulston, who was born in Jersey, in the Channel Islands, c. 1827. Another maternal great-great-great-great-grandfather, James Blake, was born in Sligo, Ireland, c. 1835. Much or most of the rest of Louis’s traceable ancestry is English.

Sources: Information about Louis’s maternal great-great-grandmother, Josephine Caroline Van Egghen/Vanegghen – http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com

Louis mentions his Belgian ancestry – http://www.sugarscape.com

14 Responses

  1. roman2886 says:

    Ive heard of people having as many 3 ethnicities 4 ethnicities 5 ethnicities 6 ethnicities 7 ethnicities 8 ethnicities 9 ethnicities and 10 ethnicities and 11 ethnicities even 12 ethnicties thats a lot 12 is too many i have 13 ethnicities my nephews have 14 ethnicities they dont have much more than me i never heard of anyone who has 15 ethncities and 16 ethncities i never heard of anyone who was more ethnicities than me or way more ethnicities than me.

  2. roman2886 says:

    Its common for English people too have all 4 ancestries English Irish Scottish and Welsh ive heard of English people who all 4 ancestries but there is still English people that are 100% English not all English people are Mongrels its very rare for English people too have 5 ancestries English Irish Scottish Welsh and Cornish i have never heard of any English people who have all 6 ancestries English Irish Scottish Welsh Cornish and Northern Irish or even 7 ancestries English Irish Scottish Welsh Cornish Northern Irish and Manx that would extremley rare just as rare as English people have 6 ancestries English Irish Scottish Welsh Cornish and Northern Irish.

  3. Harriet says:

    CORRECTION: ‘Jersey Island’ should be changed to ‘Channel Islander’.

  4. Patricia says:

    he sad that he has 1/16 belgian

    • ethnic says:

      Got it, thanks.

    • roman2886 says:

      Nothing wrong with English people are Mongrels they have ancestry in other parts of the UK Ireland and Europe he has Belgain ancestry the Anglo Saxons came from Belgain and Holland as well as Northern Germany the Jutes came from Southern Denmark i have heard of English people who have Irish Scottish and Welsh ancestry but not Northern Irish Manx Channel Islander and Cornish ancestry the majority of English people have all 4 ancestries English Irish Scottish and Welsh which is very common not many English people have Cornish Northern Irish and Manx ancestry some English people have all 5 ancestries English Irish Scottish Welsh and Cornish that would very rare i have all 4 ancestries English Irish Scottish and Welsh along with Filipino so that means i have mostly 5 ancestries i have other ancestries in me i have 13 you can have as many as you want you can as many ethnicities some people have 1 ethnicity not many people are 1 of anything most people have 2 ethnicities i have heard of people having as many as 3 ethnicities 4 ethnicities 5 ethncities 6 ethncities 7 ethncities 8 ethncities and 9 ethncities its very rare for people too 10 ethncities and 11 ethnicities the most ethncities i have heard of in a celeb is 11 so far i never heard of any people who have 12 ethnicities and 13 ethncities i have 13 ethncities which is extremley rare most people who are British Mongrels have 4 ethncities some 5 but that is very rare my dad had 7 ethnicities if i ever get married and have children i doubt that will have more ethnicities than me they will mostly have the same as me unless i marry someone who has ancestry from outside the UK i only like White women even though im half Asian im not attracted too Asian women im Eurasian Eurasians consider themselves White not Asian i consider myself White not Eurasians who grew up in the UK America and Europe only date and marry and Whites because they the Eurasians who grew up in Asia only date and marry Asians Eurasians are more intrested in their White side then their Asia side the Eurasians who grew up in Asia are only interested in their Asian side im more interested in my White side then Asian side if find a girlfriend she would have too be White if i want too get married and have children it would have too be with a White woman if i date and marry a Eurasian woman have children with her she would be of mixed blood herself and that would improve my descedants bloodline the bloodline would be diluted.

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