Thomas Jane
Jane in 2016, photo by kathclick//www.bigstockphoto.com
Birth Name: Thomas Elliott III
Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Date of Birth: February 22, 1969
Ethnicity: Irish, Scottish, possibly more distant German Jewish and Blackfoot Native American
Thomas Jane is an American actor. His roles include the films Boogie Nights, Deep Blue Sea, Under Suspicion, 61*, The Punisher (2004), Stephen King’s The Mist, Mutant Chronicles, 1922, and The Predator, and the series Hung and The Expanse. He has also been credited as Tom Janes. He founded RAW Studios, a comic book publisher.
Thomas is the son of Cynthia (Jane), an antiques dealer, and Michael Elliott, a genetic engineer. He has a daughter with his former wife, actress Patricia Arquette.
Thomas has said:
…I’m part Irish and Scottish, a little German Jew on my mothers side and some Blackfoot Indian on my fathers. turns out P[atricia Arquette] has some Scottish in her as well, so that’s why we all wore kilts at the wedding!
Maybe his grandmother?
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVTD-Y8C2
The couple (Jane’s presumed parents) in that obituary, Michael and Cynthia Elliott, lives in Germantown, Maryland.
In case these are the correct people, I’ll leave this here for the future.
Possible paternal grandparents:
Thomas W. Bendix Elliott (the son of William J. Elliott and Edith McElroy). William was likely the son of George W. Elliott and Mary Wilson, whose parents were English. Edith was the daughter of Robert McElroy, who was Irish, and of Margaret Everett.
Margaret J. Lynch (the daughter of Edward V. Lynch and Henrietta Acker). Edward was the son of Irish parents.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2CX-G24M
On his website’s message board back in the day, Jane said he has a small amount of German Jewish ancestry.
Interesting. Is it still available to read?
Shockingly, yes.