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Birth Name: Ash Blue Gutierrez
Place of Birth: Florida, U.S.
Date of Birth: January 20, 2005
Ethnicity: English, one quarter Mexican [Spanish, likely Indigenous, more distant Italian, Portuguese, French, Canary Islander], Welsh, Polish, German, Austrian, 1/16th Scottish, Northern Irish
Glaive is an American singer and songwriter. He is also known as ovine hall.
His father, Mark, and grandfather, Bennie Gutierrez, were professional polo players. His mother, Rebecca, is from Penrith, Cumbria, England. The Polo Ralph Lauren logo is based on an image of Glaive’s grandfather Bennie.
Glaive was partly raised in Hendersonville, North Carolina.
Glaive’s paternal grandfather was Bennie Gutierrez (Bennie Martinez Gutierrez, the son of Quirino Salinas Gutierrez, Jr. and Trinidad Nerio Martinez). Bennie was born in San Antonio, Texas. Quirino was born in Webb, Texas, to Mexican-American parents, Quirino Serrato Gutierrez and Nazaria Salinas. Glaive’s great-grandmother Trinidad was born in San Antonio, also to Mexican-American parents, Miguel Martinez and Elizabeth Isabel Nerio. Bennie had ancestors from Spain, as well as distant ancestors from Italy, Portugal, France, and the Canary Islands, as well as having forebears born in Puerto Rico.
Glaive’s paternal grandmother was Kay Maday (the daughter of Richard Frank Maday and Anna Emma Bartels). Richard was born in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, the son of Frank Maday, who was Polish, from Rudnik; and of Agnes Ann Novak/Nowakowski, who had roots in Poznań, Poland. Glaive’s great-grandmother Anna was born in Chicago, the daughter of Otto Ernest Bartels, who was of German descent; and of Ottilia Katherine Riedler, who was born in Steyr-Land, Upper Austria, Austria.
Glaive’s maternal grandfather was James A. C. McElwee (the son of Frederick Charles McElwee and Dorothy Elizabeth Ockleston). James was born in Chippenham, Wiltshire, England. Frederick was born in Dublin, Ireland. His father, James Thomas McElwee, was the son of a Canadian father from Montréal, Québec, who had Northern Irish ancestry, and of an English mother, from Portsmouth, Hampshire. Frederick’s mother, Maggie Anne Campbell, was born in Staffordshire, to Scottish parents. Glaive’s great-grandmother Dorothy was born in Dublin, the daughter of Thomas Oswald Ockleston, who was born in Alrtincham, Cheshire; and of Dorothy Frances Franckel, who was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, and was of one quarter German descent.
Glaive’s maternal grandmother was Anne Frances Fletcher (the daughter of Eric Walshaw Fletcher and Florence Maud Astbury). Anne was born in Rhyl, Flintshire, Wales. Eric was born in Yorkshire. Florence was born in Nannerch, Flintshire.
Sources: Obituary of Glaive’s paternal grandfather, Bennie Martinez Gutierrez – https://www.uspolo.org
Marriage record of Glaive’s maternal grandparents, James A. C. McElwee and Anne Frances Fletcher – https://www.myheritage.com
Genealogy of Glaive’s maternal grandfather, James A. C. McElwee – https://www.myheritage.com
Birth record of Glaive’s maternal grandfather, James A. C. McElwee – https://www.myheritage.com
Genealogy of Glaive’s maternal grandmother, Anne Frances Fletcher – https://www.myheritage.com