LOS ANGELES – JAN 13: Mark Deklin at the Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movies and Mysteries Winter 2018 TCA Event at the Tournament House on January 13, 2018 in Pasadena, CA
Birth name: Mark Scott Schwotzer
Date of birth: December 3, 1967
Place of birth: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Ethnicity:
*father – German, distant Austrian
*mother – English, Scottish, Irish, German, Cornish
Mark Deklin is an American actor and fight coordinator.
Mark’s paternal grandfather was Norman Nero Schwotzer, who was born in Jefferson Township, to German emigrants.
Mark’s paternal grandmother was Mary Augusta Horning (the daughter of George H. Horning and Wilhelmina Lutz). Mary was born in Baldwin Township, Pennsylvania. George was the son of Jacob Horning and Susan Linhart, and had some deep lines in America. Wilhelmina was the daughter of German emigrants, August Lutz and Augusta Huth.
Mark’s maternal grandfather was Reginald Scott Gillespie (the son of James Gillespie and Ellen Catherine Scott). Reginald was born in North Tonawanda, New York. James was born in Canada to parents from Ireland, James Gillespie, who was born County Roscommon to Scottish parents, and Rebecca Brownlee, from County Cavan. Ellen was the daughter of William Scott, who was listed as of Irish origin in Canadian censuses, and Ann Cordelia Fowle, who was born in Calcutta, India, to English parents, her father being from Berkshire.
Mark’s maternal grandmother was Hilda Victoria Peuchen (the daughter of Stanley Cooper Peuchen and Mary Harriet Bowden). Hilda was born in New York. Stanley wa the son of Godfrey Emanuel Peuchen, a German emigrent from Westphalia, and Eliza Eleanor Clark, an English emigrant from Hull, Yorkshire. Mary was the daughter of John Wilson Bowden, an English emigrant from Cornwall, and Margaret Eliza Purdy, who was born in Canada to parents from Ireland.
Sources: Family tree of Mark Deklin — https://www.familysearch.org/tree/pedigree/landscape/GFS6-BFN
Obituary of Mark’s mother, Sally Louise (Gillespie) Schwotzer — https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/postgazette/obituary.aspx?n=sally-gillespie-schwotzer&pid=86041582
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