Birth Name: Marvin Lee Aday
Place of Birth: Dallas, Texas, United States
Date of Birth: September 27, 1947
Ethnicity: English, small amounts of Irish and French, remote Italian/Sicilian
Meat Loaf is an American singer, songwriter, musician, actor, and record producer. He is the son of Wilma Artie (Hukel), a teacher, and Orvis Wesley Aday, a police officer.
Meat Loaf’s ancestry is mostly English. His fourth great-grandfather, John Ferrell, was Irish. His fifth great-grandmother, Margaret de Vane, had French ancestry. Through her, Meat Loaf is also descended from Anne Marie Martinozzi, who was Italian, of half Sicilian descent. He also descended from Bartholomew Taliaferro, an Italian who moved to England in the 1500s, and was the founder of a prominent family in mostly Virginia and Maryland.
Meat Loaf’s paternal grandparents were Marvin Wesley Aday (the son of Ellis L. Aday and Mary Elizabeth Bush) and Eula Jane Myers/Mires/Mars (the daughter of John Mires and Sarah Jane Atteberry).
Meat Loaf’s maternal grandparents were David Lee Hukel (the son of James Silas C. Hukel and Mary Amney Ferrell) and Charlsie Norrod (the daughter of James Alexander Norrod and Mary Alice Moore).
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