Rachel Keller – FX’s “Taboo” TV Series Los Angeles Premiere – Arrivals – Directors Guild of America, 7920 Sunset Boulevard – Los Angeles, CA, USA – Photo Credit: Guillermo Proano / PR Photos
Birth Name: Rachel Rye Keller
Place of Birth: Glendale, California, United States
Date of Birth: December 25, 1991
Ethnicity: German, Irish, English, Scottish, distant French
Rachel Keller is an American actress. She is the daughter of Kelly Jeanne (Nightingale) Retka and Flint Hale Keller.
Rachel’s maternal grandfather is Dennis Ronald “Denny” Nightingale (the son of Theodore Nicholas Nightingale and Marjorie Alma Conrath). Theodore was the son of Edmund Alexander Nightingale and Katherine Ann Eagan, who were both born in Minnesota, to Irish parents. Marjorie was the daughter of ? Conrath and Clara M. Kelty, and had German, Irish, English, and French ancestry.
Rachel’s maternal grandmother is Jeannea Rae Smith (the daughter of Francis Joseph Smith and Harriet Rae Clendenning). Francis was the son of William Fayette Smith and Helena C. Probst, who was German.
Sources: Rachel’s great-grandfather, Theodore Nicholas Nightingale, on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4M9-46J
Rachel’s great-grandmother, Marjorie Alma Conrath, on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MW17-7T2
Genealogy of Rachel’s maternal grandmother, Jeannea Rae Smith (through her own brother, Francis Carson Smith; focusing on her father’s side) – http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/
Rachel’s great-grandfather, Francis Joseph Smith, on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MWYB-WDV