Birth Name: William Mills Irwin
Place of Birth: Santa Monica, California
Date of Birth: April 11, 1950
Ethnicity:
*English (father)
*Irish, German (mother)
Bill Irwin is an American actor, clown, and comedian. His father had English ancestry. His mother was of half Irish and half German descent.
Bill’s paternal grandparents were Glenn L. Irwin (the son of Isaiah T. Irwin and Surilda Jane Reed) and Inez A. Hawkins/Heness.
Bill’s maternal grandparents were Dennis “Denny” Chas Mills (the son of Dennis Mills and Mary Ann Walsh) and Minnie Kusler (the daughter of George G. Kusler and Bernhardine Frederika Wilhelmine Hilgemann). Bill’s great-grandparents Dennis and Mary were Irish, with Mary having been born in Dublin. George was born in Russia, to ethnic German parents. Bernhardine was German.
Source: Genealogy of Bill’s mother (focusing on her own mother’s side) – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com
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