Birth Name: Peter Mark Sinclair Almond
Place of Birth: Southport, Lancashire, England, U.K.
Date of Birth: July 9, 1957
Ethnicity: Scottish, Norwegian, English, Welsh, distant Danish, remote German and Dutch
Marc Almond is an English singer, songwriter, and musician. He is the vocalist in the English synthpop duo Soft Cell. Marc is the son of Sandra Mary (Diesen) and Peter John Sinclair Almond.
On his twitter, Marc wrote:
I’ve got Scottish roots I really have, half my family tree is Scottish the other half is Norwegian.
Marc’s maternal grandparents were Jens Peter Diesen (the son of Sigurd Diesen and Sofie Elisabeth Betsy Lassen) and Gladys Vivian Wynn/Wynne (the daughter of Herbert John Wynn and Ada Barnard). Sigurd and Sofie was both born in Oslo, Norway. Sofie had distant Danish, and remote German and Dutch, ancestry. Gladys had English, and likely some Welsh, ancestry.
Sources: Genealogy of Marc Almond (focusing on his mother’s side) – http://www.xn--familiertter-2jb.no
Genealogy of Marc’s mother – http://www.geni.com
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