Birth Name: Ryan Takacs Merchant
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, United States
Date of Birth: January 2, 1981
Ethnicity:
*Irish, Swiss-German, English, German, remote Scottish (father)
*Hungarian (mother)
Ryan Merchant is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and producer. He is one half of the indie pop duo Capital Cities, alongside Sebu Simonian.
Ryan is the son of Patricia A. (Takacs) and John Langon Merchant. Ryan’s father is of three eighths Irish, one quarter Swiss-German, one quarter English and Scottish, and one eighth German, descent. Ryan has also stated that he has Hungarian ancestry, which is also indicated by his mother’s maiden name, “Takacs”.
Ryan’s paternal grandparents were John Wilford Merchant (the son of Wilford E. Merchant and Anna Margaret Langan) and Marguerite Josephine Bauman (the daughter of Emil Fredrick Bauman and Agnes Amelia Gotsch). Ryan’s great-grandfather Wilford was born in Summit, Minnesota, and had English, and remote Scottish, ancestry. Anna had Irish ancestry. Emil was Swiss, born in Basel, Switzerland, of Swiss-German descent. Agnes was born in Iowa, the daughter of Charles Frederick Gotsch, who was born in New York, to German parents, and Ellen Conway, who was born in Ohio, to Irish parents.
Source: Ryan’s birth certificate – https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VL7H-1L2
Marriage record of Ryan’s parents – https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V6G3-9RC
Birth certificate of Ryan’s father – https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VGLZ-WCT
Genealogy of Ryan Merchant (focusing on his father’s side) – http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/
Genealogy of Ryan’s father (through his sister, Marguerite Josephine Merchant) – http://www.ancestry.com/
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