Terry and his daughter Rachel
Birth Name: Terry Paxton Bradshaw
Place of Birth: Shreveport, Louisiana
Date of Birth: September 2, 1948
Ethnicity: English, some German and Swiss-German, remote French and Irish
Terry Bradshaw is an American former football quarterback in the National Football League, as well as a television analyst and actor. He is in the NFL Hall of Fame as a Steeler. Terry is the son of Novis (Gay) and William “Bill” Marvin Bradshaw.
Terry has English, some German, and remote French and Irish, ancestry. He is descended from Dr. Pierre Chastain, who was born, c. 1659, in France. He has German ancestry, through his “Lyda” line, and a great-grandmother surnamed “Snider”. Terry’s remote Irish paternal ancestor Mary Flanigan was in born 1768.
Terry’s paternal grandparents were John Stanley Bradshaw (the son of John Robert Bradshaw and Sarah Frances Bellamy) and Amelia Margie Rittenberry (the daughter of Sylvester V. Rittenberry and Nancy Ann Baker).
Terry’s maternal grandparents were Clifford Hezekiah Gay (the son of James Marion Gay and Lillie Mae Allen) and Lula Estelle Thornhill (the daughter of James Jackson Thornhill and Sarah Izora Snider).
Sources: Genealogies of Terry Bradshaw – https://www.geni.com
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com
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