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Alexa Ray Joel

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Place of Birth: Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S.

Date of Birth: December 29, 1985

Ethnicity:
*Ashkenazi Jewish (father)
*German, Irish, English, Scottish (mother)

Alexa Ray Joel is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. She is the older daughter of singer-songwriter Billy Joel and first child of model Christie Brinkley.

Alexa Ray’s paternal grandparents are Helmuth Julius Joel (son of Karl Amson Joel and Meta Fleischmann) and Rosalind Nyman (the daughter of Philip Nyman and Rebecca Gershon). Helmuth was a Jewish immigrant from Germany, born in Nuremberg. Meta was the daughter of Elias Fleischmann and Elise Wertheimer; Elise was killed in the Holocaust, in 1943. Alexa’s grandmother Rosalind was born in New York, to English Jewish parents (of Ukrainian Jewish and Polish Jewish descent).

Alexa Ray’s maternal grandparents are Herbert Hudson (the son of Herbert A. Hudson and Isabelle E. Gessner) and Marjorie Marie Bowling (the daughter of William Harrison Bowling and Ida “Mamie” Henson).

Sources: Genealogy of Alexa Ray Joel – http://www.geni.com

Genealogy of Alexa Ray’s mother, Christie Brinkley (listing her stepfather) – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com

Alexa Ray’s maternal grandfather, Herbert Hudson, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org

Alexa Ray’s maternal great-grandfather, Herbert A. Hudson, on the 1900 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org

Alexa Ray’s maternal great-grandmother, Isabelle E. Gessner, on the 1900 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org

Alexa Ray’s maternal great-grandparents, William Harrison Bowling and Ida “Mamie” Henson, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org

Genealogy of Alexa Ray’s maternal great-grandfather, William Harrison Bowling – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com

Genealogy of Alexa Ray’s maternal great-grandmother, Ida “Mamie” Henson (through Ida’s brother, Lyler Henson) – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com

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