Birth Name: Richard Starkey
Place of Birth: Liverpool, England
Date of Birth: 7 July 1940
Ethnicity: English
Ringo Starr is an English musician who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for The Beatles. Ringo is the son of Elsie (Gleave) and Richard Starkey. He is married to actress Barbara Bach.
Ringo’s paternal grandparents were John Alfred Parkin Starkey (the son of Henry Parkin Starkey and Annie) and Annie Bower (the daughter of Alfred Bower and Margaret Ellen Parr).
Ringo’s maternal grandparents were John Gleave (the son of William Gleave and Mary Kate Conroy) and Catherine Martha Johnson (the daughter of Andrew Johnson and Mary Elizabeth Cunningham).
In Alan Clayson’s 1992 biography “Ringo Starr (Straight Man or Joker?)”, the author describes Ringo as the only Beatle not having any Irish ancestry.
Sources: Family histories of Ringo Starr – http://www.telegraph.co.uk
http://www.beatlesireland.info
Genealogy of Ringo Starr – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com
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