Birth Name: David Samuel Peckinpah
Place of Birth and Death: Fresno, California, U.S. – Inglewood, California, U.S.
Date of Birth and Death: February 21, 1925 – December 28, 1984
Ethnicity: Irish, German, Scottish, English, Welsh, distant Dutch
Family Background:Sam Peckinpah was a legendary American film director and screenwriter.
Sam is the son of David Edward Peckinpah and Fern Louise Church
Sam’s family is said to have Frisian and Native American ancestry. It appears to not be accurate.
Sam’s patrilineal line can be traced back to Georg Peter Beckenbach, a German immigrant, born c.1738 in Hesse, and to his wife, Catherine Tullis.
Sam’s paternal grandfather was Mortimer Peckinpah (the son of Thaddius/Thaddeus Rice Peckinpah and Elizabeth Edwards). Thaddius was the son of John Peckinpaugh/Peckenpaugh and Christina/Christene Rice. Elizabeth was the daughter of Isaac Edwards and Rachel Rice. Mortimer’s parents were cousins
Sam’s paternal grandmother was Isabelle/Isabel J. Toner (the daughter of Hugh Toner and Margaret Boyd). Isabelle was born in Pennsylvania to Irish parents, from County Down, Ulster
Sam’s maternal grandfather was Denver Samuel Church (the son of Emory Jesse Church and Catherine/Hellen M.) Denver was a Superior Court judge and U.S. Congressman for Democratic Party, and was from Folsom, California. Emory was the son of Joshua Church, who was Scottish and Sophronia Shurtleff. Joshua’s brother, Moses J. Church (Sam Peckinpah’s great-uncle), was a notable engineer, the father of Fresno irrigation district.
Sam’s maternal grandmother was named Louise D. Derrick. She was born in Nevada, to a father from New York and a mother from Vermont whose surname was McGuire
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