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Smith in 2018, DFree /bigstock.com
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, U.S. ( evidently )
Date of Birth: May 12, 1995
Ethnicity: Irish, as well as English, German, more distant French, Dutch, and Scottish, possibly other
Taylor John Smith is an American actor. His roles include the films A Haunted House 2 , Martyrs , Almost Friends , Wolves (2016), You Get Me , Lost Child (2017), Hunter Killer , The Outpost , Shadow in the Cloud , Blacklight , Where the Crawdads Sing , Depravity , and Warfare , and the series American Crime and Sharp Objects .
Taylor’s maternal grandfather is Lawrence Stephen McDonald, Jr. (the son of Lawrence Stephen McDonald and Edna Catherine Gallagher). Taylor’s grandfather Lawrence was born in New York. Taylor’s great-grandfather Lawrence was born in Canandaigua, Ontario, New York, the son of Lawrence McDonald and Helen Dower, who were born in New York, both of them to Irish immigrants. Taylor’s great-grandmother Edna was born in New York, the daughter of Edward Gallagher, whose father was the son of Irish parents, and whose mother had deep roots in the U.S.; and of Catherine C., who was born in Canada, to Irish immigrants.
Taylor’s maternal grandmother is Leslie Anne Delmege (the daughter of Leslie James DuRoss Delmege and Anne Winifred McGee). Taylor’s grandmother Leslie was born in New York. Taylor’s great-grandfather Leslie was born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio. Leslie’s father, Robert Duport Delmege, had Canadian parents, a father born in Chatham, Kent, Ontario, to an Irish father, from Limerick, and an English mother, from Devonshire; and a mother whose parents were also Irish. Leslie’s mother, Katherine DuRoss, had Irish paternal grandparents, with at least partial roots in Tyrone; and maternal grandparents who were Irish and German, respectively. Taylor’s great-grandmother Anne was born in Rochester, Monroe, New York, the daughter of James C. McGee, who was born in Canada, and likely was of Irish descent; and of Claire Frances Rossney, whose father, and maternal grandparents, were Irish, with roots in Offaly on her father’s side and Westmeath on her mother’s.
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Genealogy of Taylor John Smith (focusing on his mother’s side) – https://www.familysearch.org