Terry Bradshaw
Bradshaw with his daughter Rachel in 2006, photo by Prphotos.com
Birth Name: Terry Paxton Bradshaw
Place of Birth: Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S.
Date of Birth: September 2, 1948
Ethnicity: English, some German and Swiss-German, remote Irish and French
Terry Bradshaw is an American professional football player, television analyst, and actor. A quarterback, he played for fourteen seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). He was voted Super Bowl MVP for Super Bowl XIII (1979) and XIV (1980). He is in the NFL Hall of Fame. He is 6′3″.
Terry is the son of Novis and William Marvin “Bill” Bradshaw, who was a U.S. Navy veteran, a vice president of manufacturing of the Riley Beaird Company, and a Southern Baptist layman. He is married to Tammy. He has two children with his former wife, attorney Charla Hopkins.
Terry’s paternal grandfather was John Stanley Bradshaw (the son of John Robert Bradshaw and Sarah Frances Bellamy). Terry’s grandfather John was born in Tennessee. Terry’s great-grandfather John was the son of James “Jim” Ed Bradshaw and Elizabeth Ann Mincey. Sarah was the daughter of Thomas Conner Bellamy and Rynolds A. Drimon.
Terry’s paternal grandmother was Amelia Margie Rittenberry (the daughter of Sylvester V. Rittenberry and Nancy Ann Baker). Amelia was born in Tennessee. Sylvester was the son of Thomas Rittenberry and Naomi N. Nealy/Sealy. Nancy was the son of Jacob Baker and Elizabeth Blankenship.
Terry’s maternal grandfather was Clifford Hezekiah Gay (the son of James Marion Gay and Lillie Mae Allen). Clifford was born in Louisiana. James was the son of John Jackson Gay and Susannah C. Walters/Waters. Lillie was the daughter of Hezekiah Mage Allen and Willie Crumpler.
Terry’s maternal grandmother was Lula Estelle Thornhill (the daughter of James Jackson Thornhill and Sarah Izora Snider). Lula was born in Texas. Sarah had German ancestry.
Terry descends from Dr. Pierre Chastain, born c. 1659, in Chârost, Cher, Centre-Val de Loire, a French Huguenot immigrant who is the ancestor of likely millions of Americans, including actresses Joan Crawford and Jessica Chastain, and entertainer Chris Hardwick.
Source: Genealogy of Terry Bradshaw – https://www.geni.com
Follers, why is it not important to include his French and German ancestor? I stated it but it has been erased??
He has other German ancestry, like his “Lyda” line, and a different great-grandmother surnamed “Snider”.
I have added those bits of information as I think they are interesting to the readers.