Birth Name: George Virden Watsky
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, United States
Date of Birth: September 15, 1986
Ethnicity:
*Ashkenazi Jewish (father)
*English, distant Irish (mother)
George Watsky is an American hip hop artist, poet, and author. He is the son of Clare E. (Miller) and Paul Norman Watsky. He has a twin brother, Simon.
George’s paternal grandparents were Seymour A. Watsky (the son of Abraham Watsky and Ethel Frank) and Sydelle “Syde” Siegel. Seymour was born in New York, to parents from Russia.
George’s maternal grandfather was Clement Woodnutt Miller, a Democratic politician, who was a U.S. Representative from California, from 1959 to 1962 (the son of Clement Woodnutt Miller and Katherina Hulda Dunham). George’s great-grandfather Charles was the son of Charles R. Miller, a Republican politician, who was Governor of Delaware, from 1913 to 1917, and who had Irish and English ancestry, and of Abigail “Abbie” Morgan.
George’s maternal grandmother was Katherine Southerland (the daughter of Clarence A. Southerland and Katherine Virden). Katherine was a conservationist and activist. Clarence was the son of Clarence Southerland/Sutherland and Amy F.
Sources: https://www.youtube.com
Obituary of George’s paternal grandmother, Sydelle “Syde” (Siegel) Watsky – http://query.nytimes.com
Genealogy of George’s maternal grandfather, Clement Woodnutt Miller (focusing on his own father’s side) – https://www.geni.com
Genealogy of George’s maternal great-great-great-grandfather, Robert H. Miller – http://www.ancestry.com
Obituary of George’s maternal grandmother, Katharine (Southerland) Miller Johnson – https://www.washingtonpost.com
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