Birth Name: Jasmine Lucilla Elizabeth Jennifer van den Bogaerde
Place of Birth: Wandsworth, London, England, UK
Date of Birth: 15 May 1996
Ethnicity: English, Scottish, 1/16th Belgian (Flemish)
Birdy is an British singer and songwriter.
She is the daughter of the Hon. Sophie Patricia (Roper-Curzon) and Rupert Oliver Benjamin van den Bogaerde. Her great-uncle was actor Sir Dirk Bogarde.
Birdy’s paternal great-grandparents were Ulric van den Bogaerde and Margaret Niven. Ulric’s father, Aimé Emile van den Bogaerde, was Belgian (Flemish). Margaret was Scottish.
Birdy’s maternal grandparents are Captain John Christopher Ingram Roper-Curzon, the 20th Baron Teynham (the son of Captain Christopher John Henry Roper-Curzon, 19th Baron Teynham, and of Elspeth Grace Whitaker), and Elizabeth Scrymgeour-Wedderburn (the daughter of Lt. Col. David Scrymgeour-Wedderburn and Patricia Katherine Montagu Douglas Scott). Birdy is listed on the Peerage of England, and grew up on the family estate near Lymington.
Sources: Genealogy of Birdy’s father (focusing on his own father’s side) – http://www.geni.com
Genealogy of Birdy (focusing on her mother’s side) – http://www.thepeerage.com
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