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Birth Name: Emma Huntington
Place of Birth: Mission Viejo, Orange, California, United States
Date of Birth: March 30, 1992
Ethnicity: * father – English, one quarter Welsh, French-Canadian, Scottish, German, Swiss-German, Scottish, distant Narragansett and Wampanoag Native American * mother – Bolivian, Peruvian [Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French]
Emma Hardyman is an American singer and songwriter. She is behind indie folk rock band/project Little Moon, which won the Tiny Desk Contest in 2023. She is on lead vocals and guitar for the band.
Emma is married to Nathan Paul Hardyman, who is also in Little Moon.
Emma’s paternal grandfather was Roy Leon Huntington (the son of George Augustus Huntington and Elizabeth Ross). Roy was born in Midway, Utah. George was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, the son of George William Neal Huntington and Sarah Elizabeth Sprouse. Elizabeth was born in Midway, the daughter of Robert Bell Ross, Jr., who was from Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland; and of Ella Gertrude Alexander.
Emma’s paternal grandmother was Grace Letitia Rondot (the daughter of Earl Eugene Rondot and Letitia Davis). Grace was born in Los Angeles, California. Earl was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the son of Eugene Frank Rondot, whose father was born in Le Val-de-Gouhenans, Haute-Saône, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France, and whose mother was born in Belle Riviere, Ontario, Canada, of French-Canadian descent; and of Anna Alice Ervin, whose paternal grandfather was Irish and whose maternal grandfather was Swiss. Emma’s great-grandmother Letitia was born in Malad, Idaho, the daughter of Welsh parents, Richard Jenkins Davis, who was from Ystrad-Dafodwy Parish, Glamorganshire; and Elizabeth Cozzens, who was from Freystrop, Pembrokeshire.
Emma’s maternal grandfather was Guido Luis Peñaranda Peña (the son of Nestor Peñaranda Duran and Angela Eleuteria Otero de la Peña Rojas). Guido was born in La Paz, Bolivia. Nestor was born in La Paz, the son of Cnl. José Peñaranda Arguedas and Margarita Duran. Angela was born in La Paz, the daughter of Marcelino de la Peña, Coronel, and of Juana Rojas.
Emma’s maternal grandmother is Tula Isabel Tamayo Calderon (the daughter of Mariano Tamayo Villanueva and María Angélica Calderón Delgado). Tula was born in Arequipa, Peru. She was of Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and French descent. Mariano was born in Yarabamba, Arequipa, the son of Julian Tamayo Barrera and Jacoba Lastenia Villanueva Málaga. was born in Yura, Arequipa, the daughter of Mariano Tomas Calderón Zevallos and Estefanía Catalina Delgado Barbachan.
Source: Genealogy of Emma Hardyman – https://huntingtonfamily.org