Birth Name: Bruce Travis McGill
Place of Birth: San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, U.S.
Date of Birth: July 11, 1950
Ethnicity:
*Irish, English, distant French (father)
*Ashkenazi Jewish (mother)
Bruce McGill is an American actor.
Bruce is the son of Adriel Rose (Jacobs), an artist, and Woodrow Wilson McGill, a real estate and insurance agent. His father has Irish, English, and French ancestry. His mother is Ashkenazi Jewish.
Bruce’s paternal grandfather was Tuble Stephens McGill (the son of Andrew Franklin McGill and Nancy Elizabeth Priscilla Stephens). Andrew was of Irish descent, the son of William McGill and Martha Seymour. Nancy was the daughter of Alsey Stephens and Priscilla Ozier.
Bruce’s paternal grandmother was Clara Belle Travis (the daughter of Stoddard Carleton Travis and Martha Ada Edwards). Stoddard was the son of Howard Carleton Travis and Mary Louise Moore. Martha was the daughter of William Berry Edwards and Sarah Jane Couch.
Bruce’s maternal grandfather was Leon Jacobs (the son of Reuben Jacobs and Sarah Edloff). Reuben was Jewish, and was born in Vishtinetz, Lithuania, the son of Nathan Lichtenstein. Sarah was the daughter of Moses Edloff, who was a Polish Jew, and Rosa “Rosalie” Wahl, a German Jew.
Bruce’s maternal grandmother was Bella Mazur (the daughter of Abraham Mazur and Caroline Meyer). Abraham was a Polish Jew, and was the son of W. M. Mazur and Reva. Caroline was a German Jew.
Sources: Genealogies of Bruce McGill – https://www.geni.com
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com
https://www.findagrave.com (through his brother, Lee Stephen McGill)
Genealogies of Bruce’s father – http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com
Bruce’s maternal grandparents, and maternal great-grandparents, Abraham Mazur and Caroline Meyer, on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Bruce’s maternal great-grandparents, Reuben Jacobs and Sarah Edloff, on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
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