04/30/2014 – Mare Winningham – 2014 Tony Awards Meet the Nominees Press Junket – The Paramount Hotel – New York City, NY, USA – Photo Credit: Laurence Agron / PR Photos
Birth Name: Mary Megan Winningham
Place of Birth: Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.
Date of Birth: May 16, 1959
Ethnicity: Dutch (maternal grandmother), Irish, English, German
Mare Winningham is an American actress, singer, and songwriter.
She is the daughter of Marilyn and Sam Neal Winningham, a football coach and player. She has five children with her former husband William Sweet Mapel.
Mare studied religion in the early 2000s. She converted to Judaism in 2003 as a personal choice. She is a practicing Jew and has released an album of Jewish/country/folk music.
Mare’s paternal grandfather likely was Neal Winningham (the son of George Washington Winningham and Josephine Simmons). George was the son of Isaac Winningham and Mary M. Evans. Josephine was the daughter of Gilman A. H. Simmons and Margaret Elizabeth “Mary” Young.
Mare’s paternal grandmother likely was Alida Willemetta Bogan (the daughter of John G. Bogan and Hattie Romain Himes). John was the son of William A. Bogan and Lida Beaty. Hattie was the daughter of Joseph B. Himes and Clara Cecelia Quigley.
Mare’s maternal grandfather was John Monas Maloney (the son of James Edward Maloney and Margaret Gertrude Flynn). James was the son of James Edward Maloney, whose parents were Irish, and of Mary Ann T. Monas, whose father was German and whose mother was Irish. Mary’s great-grandmother Margaret was the daughter of John Flynn, who was Irish, and of Catherine Cecelia Sweeney, whose father was Irish.
Mare’s maternal grandmother was Grace Vanderpol (the daughter of Arie Van der Pol and Neeltje De Reus). Arie was Dutch, and was the son of Arie Van der Pol and Adriana Van Herpen. Neeltje was the daughter of Dutch parents, Arij De Reus and Griettje Margaret Bruggeman.
Sources: Genealogy of Mare Winningham – https://www.genealogy.com
Likely Mare’s father on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Likely Mare’s father on the 1940 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org