Ryan Cabrera
06/22/2015 – Ryan Cabrera – “Escobar: Paradise Lost” Los Angeles Premiere – Arrivals – ArcLight Hollywood – Los Angeles, CA, USA – Photo Credit: Guillermo Proano / PR Photos
Birth Name: Ryan Frank Cabrera
Place of Birth: Denton, Texas, U.S.
Date of Birth: July 18, 1982
Ethnicity:
*father – Colombian
*mother – Lithuanian, Irish, German, English, Welsh
Ryan Cabrera is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. He is known for his songs “On the Way Down,” “True,” and “40 Kinds of Sadness.”
His father, Marcos “Marc” Cabrera, is a Colombian immigrant. His mother, Deborah Ann “Debbie,” is American. He was raised in Flower Mound, Texas, a Dallas suburb. He is married to professional wrestler Alexa Bliss, with whom he has a daughter.
Ryan’s maternal grandfather is Robert Laurette Noreika (the son of Martin J. Noreika and Dorothy Healy). Robert was born in New York. Martin was the son of Lithuanian emigrants, Aleksandras “Alexander” Noreika and Josephina “Josephine” Kurkulionytė, both of Kaunas. Dorothy was the daughter of Irish immigrants, John J. Healy and Margaret O’Hara.
Ryan’s maternal grandmother was Madeleine Knapp (the daughter of Edward Griffiths Knapp and Louise May Lehmann). Madeleine was born in New Jersey. Edward was born in Wavertree, Liverpool, England, the son of George Henry Knapp, who was an American, from New York City, New York, and of Mary “Polly” Griffiths, who was English, from Woolton, Liverpool, and was of half Welsh descent. Ryan’s great-grandfather Louise was born in New Jersey, of German descent, and was the daughter of Charles Edward Lehmann and Magdalena Elizabeth Flora “Madeline” Zimmermann.
Ryan’s matrilineal ancestry can be traced back to his sixth great-grandmother, Anne-Marie Stockel.
Sources: Genealogy of Ryan Cabrera (focusing on his mother’s side) – http://www.genealogy.com
Ryan’s maternal grandfather, Robert Laurette Noreika, on the 1940 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Obituary of Ryan’s maternal great-grandmother, Dorothy (Healy) Brightly – https://familysearch.org
Obituary of Ryan’s maternal grandmother, Madeleine (Knapp) Noreika – http://www.legacy.com
Ryan’s maternal great-grandmother, Louise May Lehmann, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Birth record of Ryan’s maternal great-great-grandmother, Magdalena Elizabeth Flora Zimmermann – https://familysearch.org
Who was his Native ancestor?
I can’t find any good tree of his great-great-grandfather George Henry Knapp. The genealogy on familysearch.com lists him as having English, Irish or Scottish (Cochrane surname), Dutch, German, French, and 1/64th Native American ancestry. However, we don’t know if the tree accurately lists his ancestors. In my experience, familysearch’s family trees become less credible the further back you go. And the tree also includes many exclamation marks, meaning there’s a problem with the information listed. For example, it says that George Knapp was born after his mother died, so maybe even his immediate ancestors are wrong (although it might be the dates, and not the ancestors, which are inaccurate). Maybe someone could try to verify who his parents were.
Also, his Native ancestor is listed in the tree as Mary “Little Dove” Hyanno (later Bearse), but her existence is disputed and believed by many to be a myth. It’s the same woman who Amanda Bearse alledgely descends from.
https://familysearch.org/tree/pedigree/LHF7-99Z/landscape
Familysearch trees annoy me since I (and others) can’t excess them without an account. But if you’re saying you want me to remove the Native American information on the pages of Cabrera and Bearse, I will.
You should make an account, it’s free and very helpful. The same goes for geneanet.
For Cabrera it should definitely be removed (possibly along with Dutch and French too, if we can’t verify who George’s parents were). For Bearse you can make your own judgement based on the information available, since she actually is a direct descendant of the woman who is said to be Native American.
Get an account follers.
So many photos of the documents are available only to signed-in members, and it doesn’t even cost anything. Since I index for the site, I know that what you’re allowed to index is very constraining and there’s always more info on the actual document.
I know it’s free. I’m just blasé about it.
Familysearch.org accounts are just not in vogue right now. There’s nothing sexy about them.
Denton, Texas!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOEUpYcSwOM
His father, Marcos “Marc” Cabrera, is a Colombian immigrant. His mother, Deborah Ann “Debbie” (Noreika), is American.
Ryan’s maternal grandfather is Robert Laurette Noreika (the son of Martin J. Noreika and Dorothy Healy). Martin was the son of Lithuanian immigrants, Aleksandras “Alexander” Noreika and Josephina “Josephine” Kurkulionytė, both of Kaunas. Dorothy was the daughter of Irish immigrants John J. Healy and Margaret O’Hara.
Ryan’s maternal grandmother was Madeleine Knapp (the daughter of Edward Griffiths Knapp and Louise May Lehmann). Edward was born in Wavertree, Liverpool, England, to George Henry Knapp, who was American from New York City, New York, and was of Dutch, English, French, German, and Wampanoag Native American descent, and of Mary “Polly” Griffiths, who was English from Woolton, Liverpool, and was of half-Welsh descent. Louise was of Ashkenazi Jewish and German descent, and was the daughter of Charles Edward Lehmann and Magdalena Elizabeth Flora “Madeline” Zimmermann.
Ryan’s matrilineal ancestry can be traced back to his sixth great-grandmother, Anne-Marie Stockel.
Sources: Ryan’s birth record – https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VDYD-3Z4
Genealogy of Ryan Cabrera (focusing on his mother’s side) – http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/m/a/w/Robert-Mawby/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0743.html
Ryan’s maternal grandfather, Robert Laurette Noreika, on the 1940 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3T2-GK5
Obituary of Ryan’s maternal grandmother, Madeleine Knapp – http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/newstimes/obituary.aspx?pid=176957111
Obituary of Ryan’s paternal great-grandmother, Dorothy (Healy) Brightly – https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKLQ-XFB3
Ryan’s maternal great-grandmother, Louise May Lehmann, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X4X7-199
Birth record of Ryan’s maternal great-great-grandmother, Magdalena Elizabeth Flora Zimmermann – https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FDY4-Y62
He was born in Dallas, Texas, United States.
I don’t think Cabrera’s great-grandmother Louise May Lehmann had any Jewish ancestry. Which ancestors of hers do you think were Jewish?
WTF…anglo?? I’m Colombian myself 100%. He is not. I read somewhere a long time ago that is only half and the other parent white.
How do you know that his parent is not white? Or that his mother is the white one?. Años the only pureblood latinos were Romans not you
His mother is only mention as an American. they do not mention him his mother having anglo ancestry.