Place of Birth: Oakland, California
Date of Birth: February 17, 1972
Ethnicity: Scots-Irish (Northern Irish), English, Scottish, 1/8th Italian, 1/16th German, 1/16th Spanish, distant Welsh
Billie Joe Armstrong is an American musician, a member and lead singer of the band Green Day.
Billie has Scots-Irish (Northern Irish), English, Scottish, 1/8th Italian, 1/16th German, 1/16th Spanish, and distant Welsh, ancestry. Also, one of Billie’s maternal great-great-grandmothers, Margaret Ann Willey (the daughter of George Willey and Minerva Jane Tilson), was said to be a Cherokee Native American (it is not clear if this has been verified).
Billie’s paternal grandparents were David Banks Armstrong (the son of Edwin Merritt Armstrong and Evaline Edwards) and Frances Myrtle Marsicano (the daughter of Andrew Marsicano and Elaine Lena Mueller/Muller). Evaline was born in Camberwell, Surrey, England. Andrew was born in California, to Italian parents, Peter Marsciano (from Palermo) and Theresa Nigro (from Napoli). Elaine was born in Mexico, to a German father and a Spanish mother.
Billie’s maternal grandparents were Jay William Jesse Jackson (the son of Jay Jackson and Mary Gable) and Alta May Hastings (the daughter of Thomas Anson Carey Hastings and Eliza Rayl).
Sources: Genealogy of Billie Joe Armstrong – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com
Billie’s paternal great-grandmother, Frances Myrtle Marsicano, on the 1900 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
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