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Murphy in 2014, Debby Wong /bigstock.com
Birth Name: Carolyn A. Murphy
Place of Birth: Panama City, Florida, U.S.
Date of Birth: August 11, 1974
Ethnicity: English, along with Scottish, one eighth Italian, Irish, smaller amounts of German and Swiss-German, distant Dutch, French, Angolan, and Belgian
Carolyn Murphy is an American model and actress.
She was raised between the Gulf Coast, and her family farm in Virginia.
Carolyn’s paternal grandfather was Everett Bruce Murphy (the son of Robert Bruce Murphy and Beatrice Alice McLeod). Everett was born in Seaview, Prince Edward Island, Canada. Robert was the son of James Murphy and Alice Donnelly, and was of Irish, English, and Scottish ancestry. Beatrice was the daughter of George Alexander McLeod, whose parents were Scottish, and of Alice Morrison, who was also of Scottish descent.
Carolyn’s paternal grandmother was Georgia Elizabeth Knight (the daughter of George Walter Knight and Eula Jane Goins). Georgia was born in Georgia, and had deep roots in the U.S. George was the son of Francis Barto Knight and Amanda F. Phillips. Eula was the daughter of Druie Lumpkin Goins and Elizabeth Smith. The Goins family traces back to an Angolan ancestor, who paid for his son’s freedom from slavery.
Carolyn’s maternal grandfather was Raymond Karl Herrell (the son of John Eli Herrell and Adelena Rose Leverone). Raymond was born in Washington, D.C. John was the son of Franklin Ashley Herrell and Carrie Elizabeth Steadman, and had deep roots in the U.S. Adelena was the daughter of Paul Leverone, an Italian emigrant, from Camogli, Liguria, and of Mary A. Rizzo, whose parents were also Italian.
Carolyn’s maternal grandmother was Lois Carolyn Andrews (the daughter of George Russell Andrews and Carolyn Rice). Lois was born in Brookneal, Virginia, and had deep roots in the U.S. George was the son of Henry Nicholas Andrews and Margaret Elizabeth Hill. Carolyn’s great-grandmother Carolyn was the daughter of William David Rice and Lelia Irene Berger.
Source: Genealogy of Carolyn Murphy – https://www.familysearch.org