Birth Name: Virginia Elizabeth Davis
Place of Birth: Wareham, Massachusetts
Date of Birth: January 21, 1956
Ethnicity: English, along with some distant Scottish, Welsh
Geena Davis is an American actress. She is of English descent, and also has some fairly distant Scottish and Welsh roots. Most or all of her family lines have resided in the United States, specifically in New England, and more specifically in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, since the 1600s.
It is possible, though uncertain, that Geena has no American-born ancestors who were born outside of New England.
Geena’s patrilineal ancestry can be traced back to Ichabod Davis, who was born, c. 1571, in Bennefield, Northampton, England.
On her father’s side, Geena is the granddaughter of Isaac Danforth Davis (the son of William Farnham Davis and Nancy May Green) and Edna Frances Green (the daughter of Frank Paschal Green and Hattie Elizabeth Livermore).
On her mother’s side, Geena is the granddaughter of William Henry Cook (the son of James B. Cook and Ada Fisher) and Florence Martha Hall (the daughter of Elbert L. Hall and Lucy J. Price).
Source: Genealogy of Geena Davis – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com
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