Birth Name: William John Clifton Haley
Date of Birth: July 6, 1925
Place of Birth: Highland Park, Michigan, United States
Date of Death: February 9, 1981
Place of Death: Harlingen, Texas, United States
Ethnicity: English, 1/8th German, 1/256 Scots-Irish (Northern Irish), remote French
Bill Haley was an American singer, songwriter, and musician. He was the singer, guitarist, and frontman of the rock and roll band Bill Haley & His Comets.
Bill was the son of Maude (Green) and William Albert Haley. Maude was an English immigrant. William was American, and had mostly English ancestry, with one quarter German, more distant Scots-Irish (Northern Irish), and remote French ancestry.
Bill’s paternal grandparents were James Arthur Haley (the son of Benjamin R. Haley and Cynthia Dyer) and Agnes “Aggie” Jacobs (the daughter of Henry Jacobs and Rebecca). Bill’s great-grandfather Henry was German.
Bill’s maternal grandparents were John Green and Margaret Annie Edmundson/Edmondson (the daughter of Moses Edmundson/Edmondson and Bridget Thompson).
Sources: Genealogy of Bill Haley (focusing on his father’s side) – http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com
Genealogy of Bill’s paternal grandfather, James Haley – https://familysearch.org
Genealogies of Bill Haley (focusing on his mother’s side) – https://www.geni.com
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com