Birth Name: Richard Reyes Faulkerson, Jr.
Place of Birth: Santa Rosa, Laguna, Philippines
Date of Birth: January 2, 1992
Ethnicity:
* Cornish, Dutch, English, French, Scoots-Irish (Northern Irish), Scottish, remote Belgian (Flemish) and Norwegian (paternal grandfather)
* Filipino (Ilocano and Kapampangan) (paternal grandmother and mother, respectively)
Alden Richards is a Filipino actor, host, and model. He is best known as one-half of AlDub, alongside Maine Mendoza. His father, Richard Peralta Faulkerson, Sr., is of half-American and half-Ilocano descent. His mother, Rosario “Rio” Reyes, was a native of Pampanga.
Alden’s paternal grandfather was William Marion Faulkerson (the son of William Ney Fulkerson and Ida Estella May Tennant). Alden’s grandfather William was American, from Fort Wayne, Indiana. Alden’s great-grandfather William was the son of Marion Montgomery Fulkerson and Harriet Hinchman. Estella was the daughter of Scottish immigrant William James Tennant, of Glasgow, and Jane Coveney.
Alden’s paternal grandmother was Erlinda Concepcion Peralta (the daughter of ? Peralta and ? Concepcion). Erlinda was Ilocana, from Sinait, Ilocos Sur.
Sources:
Birth record of Alden’s father – https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939F-5D9F-RM
Genealogy of Alden’s paternal grandfather – http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/f/u/l/Chuck-Fulkerson/GENE6-0092.html
Marriage record of Alden’s paternal great-grandparents – https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6SK7-7BB