Birth Name: Jonathan Stevens Jackson
Place of Birth: Orlando, Florida
Date of Birth: May 11, 1982
Ethnicity: English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Danish, Scottish, Scots-Irish (Northern Irish), distant Dutch, French
Jonathan Jackson is an American actor, musician, and author. His brother, Richard Lee Jackson, is also an actor and musician. He has English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Danish, Scottish, Scots-Irish (Northern Irish), as well as distant Dutch and French, ancestry.
Jonathan’s paternal grandparents are Virgil Lee Jackson (the son of Ira Albert Jackson and Naomi May Rudd) and Ella Fay Smith (the daughter of Charlie Clyde Smith and Vera Vinnie Peters). Naomi was of 3/4 Norwegian, and 1/4 German, descent.
Jonathan’s maternal grandparents were John Sharp (the son of Grover Cleveland Sharp and Esther Matilda English) and Muriel Lehto (the daughter of Kustau/Kustaa Lehto, born Kustaa Adolf Engelbert Ackerman, and of Rhoda Christine Anderson). Esther’s parents were Swedish. Kustaa was Finnish, born in Rymättylä. Rhoda was the daughter of Peter Olof Anderson, who was Swedish, and of Elna Mathilda Mattison Carlson, who was Danish.
Sources: Genealogies of Jonathan Jackson (focusing on his father’s side) – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com
Genealogy of Jonathan’s maternal grandfather, John Sharp (focusing on his own father’s side) – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com
Genealogy of Jonathan’s maternal great-grandparents, Grover Cleveland Sharp and Esther Matilda English – http://records.ancestry.com.au
Genealogy of Jonathan’s maternal great-grandmother, Esther Matilda English – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com
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