Birth Name: William Wayne McMillan Rogers III
Date of Birth: April 7, 1933
Place of Birth: Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Date of Death: December 31, 2015
Place of Death: Los Angeles, California, United States
Ethnicity:
*English, Irish, Scottish (father)
*white Creole (French, French-Canadian, Basque, Luxembourgian), along with English, Scottish, Welsh, distant French Huguenot (mother)
Wayne Rogers was an American actor. He is known for playing Captain “Trapper” John McIntyre in the television series M*A*S*H. Wayne was the son of Lydia (Eustis) and William McMillan Rogers II. His father had English, Irish, and Scottish ancestry, and his mother had white Creole (French, French-Canadian, Basque, Luxembourgian), English, Scottish, Welsh, and distant French Huguenot, ancestry.
Wayne’s paternal grandparents were William McMillan Rogers (the son of Joel Rogers and Madeline McMillan) and Juliette Barry Frierson (the daughter of Samuel Reese Frierson and Mary Evelyn Barry). Joel was born in South Carolina. Madeline was born in Alabama. Samuel was born in Tennessee.
Wayne’s maternal grandparents were George Patrick Eustis (the son of Allain Eustis and Anais Saint-Manat/de Sentimanot/de Sentmanat) and Loula Gray Jordan (the daughter of Fleming Jordan and Julia Janette Sadler). Allain’s father, George Eustis, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and had English ancestry, and his mother, Clarissa Allain, as well as Wayne’s great-grandmother Anais and her parents, were all born in New Orleans, and were of white Creole background (they had ancestry primarily from France, but also Quebec, the Basque region in Spain, and Luxembourg). Wayne’s grandmother Loula was born in Alabama, and had English, Scottish, Welsh, and distant French Huguenot, ancestry.
Sources: Genealogy of Wayne Rogers – http://www.geni.com
Genealogy of Wayne’s maternal grandfather, George Patrick Eustis – https://familysearch.org
Genealogy of Wayne’s maternal grandmother, Loula Gray Jordan – https://familysearch.org
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