Birth Name: Marjory Ford
Date of Birth: August 30, 1898
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States
Date of Death: October 16, 1992
Place of Death: North Chatham, Massachusetts, United States
Ethnicity:
*English (father)
*Northern Irish, English, Irish (mother)
Shirley Booth was an American actress.
Shirley was the daughter of Virginia Martha (Wright) and Albert James Ford. Her mother was of one half Northern Irish, one quarter English, and one quarter Irish, ancestry. Her father, who was born in New York, and had English ancestry.
Shirley’s paternal grandparents were Albert James Ford and Jane/Jennie Blanson/Bladson. Albert was English.
Shirley’s maternal grandparents were John F. Wright and Margaret Casson (the daughter of William Casson and Margaret). John was born in Northern Ireland. Margaret was born in New York, to an English father, from Croston, Lancashire, and an Irish mother.
Sources: Marriage record of Shirley’s parents – https://familysearch.org
Shirley’s father on the 1880 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Genealogies of Shirley Booth (focusing on her mother’s side) – https://www.geni.com
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com