Madelaine Petsch
Madelaine Petsch – Prive Revaux Eyewear Launch Party – Chateau Marmont – Los Angeles, CA, USA. 2017 – Photo Credit: PRPhotos.com
Birth Name: Madelaine Grobbelaar Petsch
Place of Birth: Port Orchard, Washington, U.S.
Date of Birth: August 18, 1994
Ethnicity: Afrikaner [Dutch, German, other]
Madelaine Petsch is an American actress and YouTube personality. Her parents are South African, Afrikaners. She is known for starring as Cheryl Blossom on the show Riverdale.
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If “Grobbelaar” is her mother’s maiden name, she descends from Johan Grobler and Geertruyd Knoesen (the daughter of Cornelis Knoetzen and Dirkje Helms). Johan was born, c. 1678, in Tangermünde, Germany and came to South Africa in about 1708. Geertruyd was the daugher of a Danish immigrant and of a German/Dutch mother.
https://www.stamouers.com/stamouers/d-g/187-grobler-johan
“Petsch” is an unusual surname for South Africa. She might descend from this man (https://www.stamouers.com/stamouers/surnames-n-to-q/385-peach-ricardo-augustino) but I’m not sure.
I think Grobbelaar is her mother’s maiden name. I searched on social media and there are a lot of South Africans with the surname Grobbelaar.
Curiously, I could not find any with the surname Petsch. What are the chances her father is a recent European immigrant to South Africa?
> There are a lot of South Africans with the surname Grobbelaar
Yes. The most famous one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Grobbelaar
>What are the chances her father is a recent European immigrant to South Africa?
_ I think it’s very possible.
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