Ancestry of
Beyoncé

Singer and Movie Actress

Mathew Knowles

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• • Father of Beyoncé — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • Mathew Knowles 
  • Mother:
  • Lou Helen -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 9 Jan 1952 
  • Birth Location:
  • Gadsden, Etowah, Alabama 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Celestine Ann "Tina" Beyonce
  • Marriage Date:
  • 5 Jan 1980 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Galveston, Galveston Co., Texas 
  • Children:
  
  

  Beyoncé Giselle Knowles (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  Solange Piaget Knowles

  • Notes: 

  • Mathew and Celestine Knowles were divorced on 17 NOV 2011 in Harris, Texas.

• Sources for Mathew Knowles

  • ¹ Texas, Marriage Collection, 1814-1909 and 1966-2011, Marriage record for Mathew Knowles and Celestine A. Beyonce.
  • ² Texas, U.S., Divorce Index, 1968-2014, Divorce record for Mathew and Celestine Knowles.
  • ³ Arenofsky, Janice, Beyoncé Knowles: A Biography, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press (2009), 2.
  • ⁴ Noël, Jacques, La Diaspora Québécoise, Québec, Canada: Les Éditions GID (2016), 139, 141-142, gives incorrect birth year.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 990.
  • ⁶ Wikipedia, "Mathew Knowles", (accessed 05/06/2014).

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