Virginia Grey

Birth Name: Virginia Marie Grey

Date of Birth: March 22, 1917

Place of Birth: Edendale, Los Angeles, California, United States

Date of Death: July 31, 2004

Place of Death: Woodland Hills, California, U.S.

Ethnicity:
*father – three quarters Scottish, one quarter English
*mother – German

Virginia Grey was an American actress and singer. She appeared in over 100 films, from the 1920s to the 1970s, and on radio and television shows.

She was the daughter of Florence Anna and director Ray Grey (Raymond Standish Grey). She was LDS (Mormon).

Virginia’s paternal grandfather was named James W. Grey. James was Scottish.

Virginia’s paternal grandmother was Fanny Maud Stenhouse (the daughter of Thomas Brown Holmes Stenhouse and Fanny Warn). Virginia’s grandmother Fanny was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. Thomas was a Scottish emigrant, from Dalkeith, Midlothian, and was the son of George Stenhouse and Elizabeth Brown Armstrong. Virginia’s great-grandmother Fanny was born on Saint Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands, the daughter of parents from Hampshire, England, John Warn and Elizabeth Ann Hill.

Virginia’s maternal grandfather was Matthias/Mathew/Mathias John Pauli/Pauly (the son of Peter Anton Pauli and Catharine Nettikoven). Matthias was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to German parents. Catharine was the daughter of Heinrich Nettekoven, from Prussia, and of Christina Dreesen, from Duisdorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen.

Virginia’s maternal grandmother was Pauline/Lena/Paulina Breitenbach/Breitenback (the daughter of August Breitenbach and Rose Schulz). Pauline was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to German parents.

Sources: Genealogy of Virginia Grey – https://www.familysearch.org

Genealogy of Virginia Grey (focusing on her mother’s side) – https://www.findagrave.com

Virginia Grey on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org