Birth Name: Thomas Ellis Gibson
Place of Birth: Charleston, South Carolina
Date of Birth: July 3, 1962
Ethnicity:
*English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh (father)
*Irish, German (mother)
Thomas Gibson is an American actor and director. His father, whose ancestry in the U.S. traced back to the 1600s, was of English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh ancestry. His mother’s ancestry is half Irish and half German.
Thomas’s paternal grandparents were Charles Ellis Gibson (the son of Charles McDonald Gibson and Margaret Eugenia Sweegan) and Helen Bennett Woodcock (the daughter of Liston Livingston Woodcock and Harriet Blanche Bennett).
Thomas’s maternal grandparents were Gerald Michael Carter (the son of Patrick Carter and Mary Ellen Reynolds) and Elizabeth Broening (the daughter of Joseph John Broening and Marie E. Depkin). Patrick was Irish, born in County Leitrim. Mary Ellen was born in Connecticut, to Irish parents, from County Leitrim. Thomas’s grandmother Elizabeth was of German descent.
Source: Genealogy of Thomas Gibson – http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com
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