Birth Name: Francis Elliott Kranz
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California
Date of Birth: July 13, 1981
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Type/Color: Green
Ethnicity:
*German, Irish (father)
*English, Northern Irish/Irish, Scottish (mother)
Family info: Fran Kranz is an American actor.
His father is of one quarter German and three quarters Irish ancestry. His mother has English, Northern Irish/Irish, and Scottish ancestry.
Fran’s paternal grandfather was Frank George Kranz (the son of Henry George Kranz and Ida E. Hart). Frank was born in Iowa. Henry was a German immigrant. Ida was born in Illinois, to Irish parents John Patrick Hart (from County Sligo) and Mary Moran.
Fran’s paternal grandmother was Eileen E. Savage (the daughter of Thomas F. Savage and Lydia T.). Eileen was born in Colorado. Thomas was born in New York; according to several records, Thomas was born to an Irish-born father and a New York-born mother, while one record lists both of Thomas’s parents as having been born in Ireland. Lydia was born in Kansas, to Irish parents.
Fran’s maternal grandfather was Richard Thomas Barton (the son of George Sydney Barton and Marjorie Dow Moses). George was born in California, to English parents Thomas W. Barton and Anna Parr. Marjorie was born in Wisconsin, to Frederick L. Moses and Ella B. Nye. Marjorie had English ancestry.
Fran’s maternal grandmother was Patricia P. Caddell (the daughter of John Graham Caddell and Florence Anita Pearl). John was born in Colorado, to Edward Caddell and Elizabeth Graham, immigrants from either Northern Ireland, or Ireland and Scotland, respectively. Florence was born in California, to a father from Minnesota, Fred Lewis Pearl, and a mother from Canada, Fannie West. Fred and Fannie both had English ancestry.
Source: Fran’s paternal grandfather, Frank George Kranz, on the 1910 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/ML4W-QXP
Genealogy of Fran’s paternal great-grandmother, Ida E. Hart (focusing on her own father’s side) – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=hartth1&id=I0342
Fran’s paternal grandmother, Eileen E. Savage (“Aileen Savage”), on the 1910 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MKWB-P8L
Fran’s maternal grandfather, Richard Thomas Barton, on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MHQJ-WDY
Fran’s maternal great-grandmother, Marjorie Dow Moses, on the 1910 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MVL9-MKZ
Fran’s maternal grandmother, Patricia P. Caddell, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XCFL-BXH
Fran’s maternal great-grandfather, John Graham Caddell, on the 1910 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MK4W-N51
Fran’s maternal great-great-grandfather, Fred Lewis Pearl, on the 1880 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MZ9Z-CR6
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