Birth Name: Michael John Cloete Crawford Rutherford
Place of Birth: Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
Date of Birth: 2 October 1950
Ethnicity:
87,5 % English
12,5% Afrikaner (Dutch, German, distant Danish and French Huguenot, remote Bengalese and Angolan)
Family Background: Mike Rutherford is an English musician. He is one of the founding members of Genesis, which also included Phil Collins and Peter Gabriel. In 1985, he formed the band Mike and the Mechanics.
Mike is the son of Capt. William Francis Henry Crawford Rutherford, a Royal Navy officer, and Annette Jessie Downing Wilson. Mike’s paternal great-grandmother was of Afrikaner background. Some of her traceable ancestors have lived in South Africa since the 1600s. Mike’s paternal great-uncle (grandmother’s brother) was Dirk Jackson, a rugby player for the Springboks. Mike owns a house in Cape Town’s Bantry Bay, South Africa.
Mike’s paternal grandfather was Col. Nathaniel John Crawford Rutherford. Nathaniel was born in Surrey, England.
Mike’s paternal grandmother was Lilla Robertha Jackson (the daughter of Charles Henry Jackson and Johanna Reneira Catherina Cloete). Lilla was born in Wynberg, Western Cape, South Africa. Charles was from Chatham, Kent, England, and was the son of Henry Jackson and Georgina Sophie Goss. Johanna was South African, the daughter of Dirk Cloete and Johanna Reiniera Catherina Van Osterzee, whose father was Dutch, from Rotterdam, and whose mother was born in Indonesia.
Mike’s maternal grandfather was William Downing Adlington Wilson (the son of Daniel Wilson). William was from Bidstone, Cheshire, England.
Mike’s maternal grandmother was Jean Jessie Clover (the daughter of Charles James Clover)
Family history of Mike Rutherford – https://bygonesandbyways.blogspot.com/2013/08/
Biographical sketch about Mike’s father – http://www.unithistories.com/officers/RN_officersR4.html
Genealogy of Mike Rutherford (focusing on his father’s side) – https://www.1820settlers.com/
Genealogy of Mike’s paternal grandmother, Lilla Robertha Jackson (through Lilla’s brother, Dirk Jackson) – https://www.geni.com/
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