Ancestry of
John Wayne
Movie Actor
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- 1st Generation
- Ahnentafel No:
- 1
- Father:
- Clyde Leonard Morrison
- Mother:
- Mary Alberta "Molly" Brown
- Birth Date:
- 26 May 1907
- Birth Location:
- Winterset, Madison, Iowa
- Christening Date:
- Christening Location:
- Death Date:
- 11 Jun 1979
- Death Location:
- Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., California
- Burial Date:
- Burial Location:
- Pacific View Memorial Park, Corona del Mar, Orange, California
- Notes:
Actor John Wayne
Marion's middle name was changed from Robert to Mitchell when his parents decided to name another son Robert. Later a publicist reportedly got this wrong and referred to him as Marion Michael Morrison and many biographies reported the name wrong until the error was eventually discovered.
Marion Robert Morrison
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Marriages for Marion Robert Morrison
- Spouse:
- Josephine Alicia Saenz
- Spouse:
- Esperanza Diaz Ceballos
- Spouse:
- Pilar Palette
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Sources for Marion Robert Morrison
- 1 California Death Index, 1940-1997, Death record for Marion Robert Morrison.
- 2 Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 08/04/2013).
- 3 Iowa, Births and Christenings, 1830-1950, Birth record for Marion Robert Morrison.
- 4 Eyman, Scott, John Wayne: The Life and Legend
, New York: Simon and Schuster (2014).
- 5 Parsons, Gerald James, The Parsons Family: Descendants of Cornet Joseph Parsons . . . Through His Grandson Jonathan Parsons (1693-1782), Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press, Inc. (1984), 197.
- 6 Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 118.
- 7 Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 641.
- 8 Shepherd, Donald and Robert Slatzer, Duke: The Life and Times of John Wayne, New York: Citadel Press Books (1985).
- 9 Wikipedia, "John Wayne", (accessed 08/04/2013).