Birth Name: Sean Perelman
Place of Birth: Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
Date of Birth: November 2, 1966
Ethnicity:
*Ashkenazi Jewish (father and maternal grandfather)
*German and Irish (maternal grandmother; who likely converted to Judaism)
Sean Kanan is an American actor.
Sean is the son of Michele/Michelle Gail (Keyes) and Dale R. Perelman. Sean’s father is Jewish (with ancestors from Poland and Russia). Sean’s maternal grandfather was of Lithuanian Jewish and Russian Jewish descent, and Sean’s Canadian-born maternal grandmother was of German and Irish descent, and likely converted to Judaism.
Sean’s paternal grandfather was Lawrence Edward Perelman (the son of Jacob Frank Perelman and Susan/Sue/Sadie Rizika/Riziha). Jacob was born in Ohio, to parents from Russia. Susan was born in Russia, to parents from Russia.
Sean’s paternal grandmother was Janice Lenore Sandusky (the daughter of Morris M. Sandusky and Sorley/Sorly Rabinowitz). Sorley was born in Pennsylvania, to parents from Poland.
Sean’s maternal grandfather was Sydney/Sidney Clifton Keyes. His parents were Abel/Abe Katz and Sarah Green (the daughter of Isaac Green and Rose Maslon). Abel was born in Skudutiškis, Lithuania; Sarah was born in Wisconsin, to parents from Russia.
Sean’s maternal grandmother was Alma Ida Toeppner. Her parents were William Frederick Toeppner (the son of Frederick August Toeppner and Josephine Mechefski/Mechefske) and Mary Alexander Nesbitt (the daughter of James George Nesbitt and Elizabeth Victoria Lowe).
Sean’s great-grandfather William was born in Canada, to Lutheran parents from Insterburg, East Prussia (now Chernyakhovsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia) and Dorfe Baute, Prussia. Sean’s great-grandmother Mary was also born in Canada, to Irish parents.
Sources: Obituary of Sean’s paternal grandfather, Lawrence Edward Perelman – http://thejewishchronicle.net/
Sean’s paternal great-grandfather, Jacob Frank Perelman, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHQZ-X18
Sean’s paternal great-grandmother, Sorley/Sorly (Rabinowitz) Sandusky, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X7D8-5JP
Genealogy of Sean’s maternal grandparents, Sidney Clifton Keyes/Katz and Alma Ida Toeppner – http://www.toeppner.ca/Ancestry/10851.html
Obituary of Sean’s maternal grandmother, Alma (Toeppner) Keyes – http://www.ncnewsonline.com/
Genealogy of Sean’s maternal great-great-grandparents, James George Nesbitt and Elizabeth Victoria Lowe – http://gw.geneanet.org/belfast8?lang=en&p=james&n=nesbitt&oc=98
Information on Sean’s maternal great-great-grandparents, Frederick August Toeppner and Josephine Mechefski/Mechefske – http://www.toeppner.ca/Frederick/index.html
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/73078382/
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