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Birth Name: Samuel McCarthy
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, U.S.
Date of Birth: March 15, 2002
Ethnicity: German, Irish, English, Scottish, distant French-Canadian, Dutch, and Welsh
Sam McCarthy is an American actor. His roles include the films All These Small Moments , 18 to Party , and The Marshmallow Experiment ; and the series The Jim Gaffigan Show , Condor , Dead to Me , and Goosebumps: The Vanishing .
He is the son of actress and playwright Carol Schneider and actor and author Andrew McCarthy .
Sam’s paternal grandfater was Stephen Gordon McCarthy (the son of John Aloysius McCarthy and Loretta Madeleine Emerson). Stephen was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. John was born in New Jersey, to Irish parents, John C. McCarthy and Catherine A. O’Brian/O’Brien, whose family was from Kerry. Sam’s great-grandmother Loretta was born in New York, the daughter of Stephen Gordon Emerson, who was born in Canada, to an English father, and to a mother of Scottish descent; and of Ellen/Nellie Berriah/Bergen/Berrigan, whose parents, Michael Berriah and Annie McArdle, were Irish.
Sam’s paternal grandmother was Dorothy Mallory (the daughter of Walter Comstock Mallory and Vivienne Margaret Hadley). Walter was born in Connecticut or Nebraska, the son of Charles Edward Mallory and Margaret Mal Ferris. Sam’s great-grandmother Vivienne was born in Kentucky, the daughter of Thomas C. Hadley and Leonetta/Annette “Nettie” Schneider/Snyder, whose own parents were German.
Sam’s maternal grandfather was Robert Lee Schneider (the son of Leonard Fred Schneider and Bernice D. Krieg). Robert was born in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. Leonard was born in Sanilac County, Michigan, the son of John Albert Schneider, whose family was from Mecklenburg, Germany; and of Lina/Lena Bopp, who was born in Darmstadt, Germany. Sam’s great-grandmother Bernice was born in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, the daughter of George Krieg and Anna Labuhn, who were the children of German parents, his roots from Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria, respectively; and hers from Mecklenburg.
Sam’s maternal grandmother was Shirley Virginia Browne (the daughter of Arthur Earl Browne and Edna Elizabeth Bush). Shirley was born in Wyandotte, Wayne, Michigan. Arthur was born in Haskins, Wood, Ohio, the son of Earl Roger Browne and Lucy May Vanbuskirk/Van Buskirk, whose maternal grandmother was from Ontario, Canada. Sam’s great-grandmother Edna was born in Ford, Michigan, the daughter of Ernest Alfred Bush, who was born in Canada, to English parents; and of Edna Helen Bondie, whose maternal grandparents were German.
Sources: Obituary of Sam’s paternal grandfather, Stephen Gordon McCarthy – https://www.legacy.com
Sam’s maternal grandfather, Robert Lee Schneider, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Obituary of Sam’s maternal grandfather, Robert Lee Schneider – https://www.reynolds-jonkhoff.com
Sam’s maternal great-grandmother, Bernice D. Krieg, on the 1910 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Obituary of Sam’s maternal grandmother, Shirley Virginia (Browne) Schneider – https://www.echovita.com
Sam’s maternal great-grandparents, Arthur Earl Browne and Edna Elizabeth Bush, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org