Ringo Starr
Starr in 2008, photo by Prphotos.com
Birth Name: Richard Starkey
Place of Birth: Liverpool South, Lancashire, England, U.K.
Date of Birth: 7 July, 1940
Ethnicity: English, some Scottish and Irish
Ringo Starr is an English singer, songwriter, drummer, and actor. He was a member of the band The Beatles, along with George Harrison, John Lennon, and Paul McCartney. Ringo was a drummer for the band. He has also been a member of supergroup Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band, with Colin Hay, Steve Lukather, and Joe Walsh.
Ringo is the son of Elsie (Gleave) and Richard Starkey. He is married to American actress and model Barbara Bach. He has three children with his former wife, late hairdresser Maureen Starkey Tigrett.
Ringo’s paternal grandfather was named John Alfred/John George Parkin Starkey (the son of Henry Parkin Starkey and Annie).
Ringo’s paternal grandmother was Annie Bower (the daughter of Alfred Bower and Margaret Ellen Parr). Annie was born in Toxteth Park, Liverpool. Alfred was the son of David Bower. Margaret was the daughter of Joseph Parr and Catherine Rodenhurst.
Ringo’s maternal grandfather was John Gleave (the son of William Gleave and Mary Kate Conroy). John was born in Toxteth Park, Liverpool. William was the son of William Gleave. Mary Kate was the daughter of William Conroy, and may have had Irish ancestry.
Ringo’s maternal grandmother was Catherine Martha Johnson (the daughter of Andrew Johnson and Mary Elizabeth Cunningham). Catherine was born in Toxteth Park, Liverpool. Andrew was born in the Shetland Isles, in Scotland, the son of Peter Johnson and Philadelphia Tait. Mary Elizabeth was from Ireland, the daughter of James Cunningham and Elizabeth.
Sources: Family histories of Ringo Starr – http://www.telegraph.co.uk
http://www.beatlesireland.info
https://hergestgenealogy.wordpress.com
Genealogies of Ringo Starr – http://www.wikitree.com
https://www.geni.com
There are a lot of Semites with blue eyes. It isn’t a rare feature among them.
He looks Assyrian or Lebanese to me. Or at least he can pass as one.
Average Lebanese/Assyrian don’t look like Ringo. Sorry.
He looks middle eastern.
http://a4.files.biography.com/image/upload/c_fill,cs_srgb,dpr_1.0,g_face,h_300,q_80,w_300/MTE5NTU2MzE2MDcwNjQzMjEx.jpg
http://hd-shock.com/celebrities/ringo-starr/ringo-starr-03.jpg
It is because europans are part native hunther-gatherers from Paleolithic, part middle eastern farmers from neolithic, and part asian indo-europeans nomads. Depending from the region, one or another group genes prevail. More to the north, more hunter-gatherers, more to south, more middle eastern.
Is that so?
This is not entirely true. My grandmother was Katherine Starkey. John Alfred Starkey was her uncle. John Starkey was Richard Starkey Senior’s stepfather. He married Annie Bower and adopted Richard, giving him the Starkey name. I am unsure if Bower is the name from Annie’s first marriage or if it’s her maiden name.
According to this page, Ringo’s grandparents married in 1910, and Ringo’s father was born in 1913.
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:3283714&id=I55275&style=TABLE
British marriage/birth records confirm this.
He once received death threats because people though he was Jewish, although to quote Ringo verbatim “The one major fault is, I’m not Jewish.”.
Hilariously enough, he’s the only Beatle of pure English descent.
Well, he got those threats in Quebec, Canada, by French Quebec nationalists who hate the English, so his “pure English descent” would not have appealed to them regardless.
Well I assume you know how a decent amount of ethnic European nationalist types feel about Jews.
This doesn’t have much to do with French-Canadians in Quebec who want to secede from Canada/dislike the English/etc. They are not “ethnic European nationalist types” in the sense that you probably mean it.
Thank you, NO ONE, and I mean NO ONE threatened him for being Jewish, even though he isn’t. His wife is, though.
No such thing as “Pure English Descent.” They are the biggest bunch of mutts in Europe. Completely ironic that so many people who think that way know ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about the history of England.
Absolutely!
Well, in the shires and small towns, that is not completely true, if you look at haplotype tests. Ringo and the Beatles are a good example of the ethnic mixes found in cities and large towns, which have had waves of migrants over the years, like most cities around the globe.
“Mutt” is, frankly, insulting. Yes, most of us are a mixture of European, mostly Northern blood, but many of us have roots going back thousands of years here. If you want to be pedantic about it, then there is no such thing as Native Indians if they all arrived from Asia, etc. You might as well say we are all African.
It is funny when the classic English looking people don’t realize that’s actually Anglo-Saxon, which means they’re genetically germanic. All the rest is part Iberian, Celt and some non-Euro. On a side note, it took about 100 years back then for the Anglos to merge with the population that already lived there because they kept separate tribes.
He must have Irish ancestry he is from Liverpool there is lots of Irish ancestry there’s is lots of people in Liverpool who are fully Irish and half Irish half English.
No I don’t think Ringo has Irish ancestry. He is the only one out of the Beatles that doesn’t. There is a lot of Irish ancestry in Liverpool but it doesn’t mean that everyone in Liverpool has to have Irish ancestry.
https://hergestgenealogy.wordpress.com/2012/09/09/rooms-for-rent-only-shetlanders-need-apply/#comments
this article states his maternal great-great-grandfather Andrew Johnson was born in Shetland Isles, Scotland (not in Liverpool) and his wife Mary Cunningham hailed from Ireland
Even Ringo has Irish. Roman was right. :)
which is Cunningham surname’s origin?
Ireland – it says Ireland.
Not everyone in Liverpool is of Irish descent. English and Scottish people came in, and quite a lot of people would have married within their own communities.