Place of Birth: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
Date of Birth: August 13, 1981
Ethnicity:
*English, German, 1/8th Hungarian, distant Welsh, Scottish, and Irish (mother)
*publicly unknown (father)
Ray William Johnson is an American YouTube personality, actor, comedian, producer, director, writer, singer, rapper, and songwriter. He is known for his YouTube series Equals Three (=3).
Ray’s mother’s name is Cindy Kay Robbins. Ray has said that he was brought up by his mother and his grandparents, and that his father was an addict who left the family when Ray was one year old.
Ray’s mother has English, German, 1/8th Hungarian, and distant Welsh, Scottish, and Irish, ancestry. It is not publicly known what his father’s ancestry is. Although various claims have been made that Ray is of Indian descent, he has clearly stated that he is not Indian. In this clip, Ray talks about his father, soon after he had passed away.
Ray’s maternal grandparents are Earl William Robbins (the son of William Henry Robbins and Anna Marie Kusil) and Dixie Raye Gazaway (the daughter of Odell Don Gazaway and Clara Lona Gordon). Ray’s great-grandmother Anna was born in Ohio, to Mathias “Mats” Kusil and Katherine Bittinger, who were born in Hungary. Katherine’s family was of ethnic German descent. Mathias likely had Hungarian ancestry.
Sources: Obituary of Ray’s maternal grand-uncle, William Henry Robbins – http://legacy.newsok.com
Genealogies of Ray’s maternal great-grandmother, Anna Marie Kusil – http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com
http://www.ancestry.com
http://www.findagrave.com
Genealogies of Ray’s maternal grandmother, Dixie Raye Gazaway (through Dixie’s sister, Janice Marie Gazaway) – https://www.geni.com
http://www.findagrave.com
https://familysearch.org
Obituary of Ray’s maternal great-grandmother, Clara Lona Gordon – http://legacy.newsok.com
Genealogy of Ray’s maternal great-great-grandmother, Lona Caroline Pannell – http://www.ancestry.com