Birth Name: John Cameron Fogerty
Place of Birth: Berkeley, California, United States
Date of Birth: May 28, 1945
Ethnicity: English, Irish, German, Swiss-German, distant Welsh, Scots-Irish (Northern Irish), French, and Italian
John Fogerty is an American musician, songwriter, and guitarist. He is the son of Edith Lucille (Lytle) and Galen Robert Fogerty. His brother was musician Tom Fogerty.
John’s paternal grandparents were James Fogerty and Lillian Royer (the daughter of John Grove Royer and Elizabeth Reiff). James was English. Elizabeth’s ancestors were mostly German and Swiss-German immigrants to Pennsylvania.
John’s maternal grandparents were Everett Earl Lytle (the son of Thomas S. Lytle and Catherine Taylor) and Edith Gooch (the daughter of James Adolphus Gooch and Nannie V.).
Source: Genealogy of John Fogerty (focusing on his father’s side) – https://familysearch.org
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