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Birth Name: Kristin Michelle Hayter
Place of Birth: Del Mar, San Diego, California, United States
Date of Birth: June 17, 1986
Ethnicity: French-Canadian, Scottish, English, Irish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, German, Swedish, Welsh, Dutch, distant Danish, Norwegian, Belgian, and Jersey Channel Islander
Kristin Hayter is an American singer and pianist. She is known for her alter ego/project Lingua Ignota. She has also been billed as Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter.
Kristin’s paternal grandfather was Donald Francis Hayter (the son of William Daniel Hayter and Mary Geraldine Murphy). Donald was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. William was born in Halifax, the son of William John Hayter, who was born in England; and of Rachel MacDonald. Kristin’s great-grandmother Mary was born in Halifax, the daughter of Oliver Lewis Murphy and Ellen Rose Colford.
Kristin’s paternal grandmother was Marjorie Frances Good (the daughter of Howard Wreford Good and Francis Amanda Dobbins). Marjorie was born in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan. Howard was born in Gustin, Alcona, Michigan, the son of Canadian parents, from Ontario, Hiram Good, whose father was English, from Suffolk, and whose maternal grandparents were English and Irish, respectively; and Ann Margaret Stringer, who was from Thorold Township, Welland, and who had recent American ancestors. Kristin’s great-grandmother Francis was born in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, also to Canadian parents, Richard Dobbins and Catherine St Croix, who were from Newfoundland and Labrador, with roots in Holyrood. Catherine had ancestry in County Galway and County Waterford, Ireland.
Kristin’s maternal grandfather was John Loren Rauch (the son of John J. Rauch and Leila Mildred Parks). Kristin’s grandfather John was born in Abilene, Dickinson, Kansas. Kristin’s great-grandfather John was born in Kansas, the son of John Carl Rauch, whose parents were from Germany, with roots in Prussia; and of Margaret Smythe, who was from Salette, Ontario, Canada. Kristin’s great-grandmother Leila was born in Omega Township, Marion, Illinois, the daughter of George Brant Parks and Asenath Mary Pownall.
Kristin’s maternal grandmother was Margery Ann Cameron (the daughter of John McCalla Cameron and Loraine Frances Lucile Haverfield). Margery was born in Fort Collins, Colorado. John was born in Colorado, the son of The Rev. James Lawrie Cameron, who was born in Canada; and of Adelle McCalla, who herself was born in London, England, to Irish-born parents, and also had Scottish ancestry. Kristin’s great-grandmother Loraine was born in Creston, Union, Iowa, the daughter of Rutherford Hayes Haverfield, whose maternal grandmother was from Dromore, Down, Ireland; and of Bertha May McClure.
Source: Obituary of Kirstin’s maternal grandmother, Margery Ann (Cameron) Rauch – https://www.newspapers.com