Birth Name: Orville Willis Forte IV
Place of Birth: Alameda County, California
Date of Birth: June 17, 1970
Eye Color: Green
Hair Type/Color: Brown
Ethnicity: English, as well as French-Canadian, Irish, Scottish, German, Swiss-German, Dutch
Family info: Will Forte is an American actor. He he has English, with smaller amounts (to varying degrees) of French-Canadian, Irish, Scottish, German, Swiss-German, and Dutch, ancestry.
Will’s paternal grandfather was Orville Willis Forte, Jr. (the son of Orville Willis Forte, Sr. and Helen MacAllister Henkels). Orville, Sr. was born in Middlesex, Massachusetts. Will’s patrilineal great-great-grandfather was Nepthali Forte, who was born in Canada, to French-Canadian parents Francois Forte and Rosalie Constance Minette. Nepthali’s wife, Will’s great-great-grandmother, Julia Agnes Mahoney, was the daughter of Daniel Mahoney and Margaret, and had Irish ancestry. Will’s great-grandmother Helen was born in Delaware, to John Bernard Henkels, who had German and Swiss-German ancestry, and Ida May MacAllister, who likely was of at least part Scottish descent.
Will’s paternal grandmother was Constance S. Collins (the daughter of Frank Ivory Collins and Mabel Leverett White).
Will’s maternal grandparents were William Penn Stivers (the son of William Benjamin Stivers and Mary Rebecca Newell) and Helen Louise Cummings (the daughter of William P. Cummings and Cecelia Myrtle Highfill).
Sources: Genealogy of Will’s paternal grandparents, Orville Willis Forte, Jr. and Constance S. Collins – http://www.geni.com/people/Orville-Forte/6000000018336683408?through=6000000018337015312
Genealogy of Will’s paternal great-great-grandfather, John Bernard Henkels (focusing on his own mother’s side) – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=hunsicker&id=I1904
Genealogy of Will’s maternal grandparents, William Penn Stivers and Helen Louise Cummings – http://www.geni.com/people/William-Stivers/6000000018335666988
Genealogy of Will’s maternal great-great-grandfather, Louis. J. Highfill (focusing on his own father’s side) – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=dphigh&id=P%2D908046030
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