Hillary Clinton's ancestry

Hillary Clinton’s great-grandparents
[With the ethnic/national personal ancestry of each individual]

Seven of Hillary Clinton’s eight great-grandparents originate in Britain primarily from Northern England and Wales, five of them were immigrants. Those seven British lines enter Canada or the U.S. between the 1830s and 1880s, mostly in the latter decades of that range, which makes Hillary Clinton’s family tree a relatively young one in the US. The eighth ancestral branch originates mainly in France but also includes French Canadian, Scottish and Dutch ancestry.

The short biographies below are largely inspired by an article of E.H Hail published in 2015 which was based on work by William Addams Reitwiesner ^{[3] [4]}.

[#8] Jonathan Rodham (1843 County Durham, Northeast England - 1917 Scranton, PA) [100% England]

Jonathan Rodham was born 1843 in County Durham, Northeast England. He died in September 1917 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, four months to the day after his wife’s death.
Personal ancestry: All his ancestors were apparently living in County Durham in England back to the mid-1700s at least.
Marriage: 1860s in Durham, England.

[#9] Isabella Simpson Bell (1849 County Durham, Northeast England - 1917 Scranton, PA) [100% England ]

Personal ancestry: Her ancestors lived in County Northumberland, Northeast England, going back at least to the early 1800s.
Marriage: 1860s in Durham, England.
Occupations: Her father was a coal miner, as was her husband (#8 above). She had eleven children.
Immigration: She immigrated to the U.S. with eight children in 1882 (three more were born in the US).

[#10] John Jones (1836 Wales - ?) [100% Wales ]

Personal ancestry: Presumably all Welsh.

[#11] Mary Griffiths (1839 Merthyr Tydfil, Wales - 1900s) [Probably 100% Wales ]

Personal ancestry: Presumably Wales (no further info.)
Occupations: From an early age supported her widowed mother. Official records show she was working as a servant by the age of 12 but in reality she may have been working even earlier. Her husband was a coal miner and later a teamster. Hillary Clinton says Mary’s family was full of coal miners.
Immigration: From Wales to the U.S. in 1879 with her husband.
Descendants: Hillary Clinton's grandmother Hannah Jones is one of four children out of 14 born to survive. Hannah Jones then eloped with Hugh Rodham - Mrs Clinton's grandfather - to marry because his family probably disproved of her poor background.

[#12] Edwin John Howell Sr. (1867 Bristol, County Gloucester, Southwest England - 1941 California) [50% England ; 50% Wales ]

Personal ancestry: This man’s parents were both born in County Gloucester, England in the 1840s; two grandparents were born in Wales and two were born in Southwest England (County Somerset).
Marriage: 1894 near Chicago, Illinois
Immigration: From England to Chicagoland, sometime in the 1880s or early 1890s. He later moved to Southern California (1920s).

[#13] Emma Josephine Monk (1874 Canada - 1940 California) [100% England ]

Personal ancestry: Her father John Monk (1838-1916) was born in New York to then-recent immigrants from England (County Warwick, West Midlands. He married an English-born woman (Sarah Abbs, b.1841) in 1867 and winds up living in Canada a while, before returning to the U.S. in the 1870s, and then to Elgin in the 1880s. The personal ancestry of John Monk (father of #6) is entirely in County Warwick, in England’s West Midlands region, back deep into the 1700s.
Marriage: 1894 near Chicago, Illinois.
Immigration: Emma Monk emigrated from Canada to Detroit, Michigan as a girl sometime in the 1870s. She moved again in 1880s to Chicago. This line ultimately entered the U.S. in the 1830s (paternal grandparents) and 1840s or 1850s (mother).

[#14] Daniel Murray (1859 Ontario, Canada - ?) [100% Scotland ]

Personal ancestry: Parents both born in Scotland.
Marriage: 1882 in Detroit, Michigan.
Occupations: Jobs listed as polisher (1900), harness maker (1910), and watchman (1920).
Immigration: From Canada to the U.S. in 1880. Naturalized U.S. citizen in 1885. He initially moved to Detroit at age 20, and moved back and forth between Detroit and the Chicago region.
Descendants: Daughter Della Murray (1902-1960) was born in Chicagoland, and at age 16 in 1918 married Edwin John Howell Jr. (1897-1946). Edwin John Howell Jr. was the son of of #12 and #13 above. They had two daughters, the first of whom was Hillary’s mother Dorothy (1919-2011).

[#15] Delia Martin (1861 Michigan - ?) [53.9% France ; 39.1% French North American Colonial ; 6,2% Scotland ; 0,8% Holland ]

Personal ancestry: Delia’s father, Antoine Martin, born in Brouviller (Moselle, France) in 1813, emigrated to Canada as a young man, probably in the 1830s (he marries in Canada in 1841). His ancestors were all French going back to the mid-1700s. As for Delia’s mother (Mary Anne Frances McDougall, 1823-1898), she has the longest personal history in North America of anyone profiled in Hillary Clinton’s ancestral tree. She was of fully Colonial frontier stock. All four of her grandparents were born in Detroit in the 1750s and 1760s, when it was a French frontier fort town, a large village of a few hundred people having grown up around it. Detroit was captured by the British in 1760 and by the 1790s was absorbed into the United States. As for Anne Frances McDougall’s personal ancestry, three of her eight great-grandparents were born in early Detroit in the 1730s, four others were born in French Quebec, and one was born in Scotland (from which the McDougall surname originates).
Marriage: 1882 in Detroit, Michigan.
Immigration: Delia Martin was native to North America going back very far, but there is no evidence of any American Indian ancestry at all^[4]. Her father (1813-ca.1872) immigrated from France to Ontario, Canada probably in the 1830s. Her parents immigrated to the U.S. sometimes between their marriage in 1841 and 1861 when Delia (#15 here) was born.
Descendants: Same as #14

Hillary Clinton, a cousin of Justin Trudeau, Madonna, Celine Dion, Justin Bieber, Ryan Gosling, Angelina Jolie and Camilla, Queen of the United Kingdom…

perche-quebec.com has discovered that Hillary Clinton has many family ties with other celebrities in politics (Justin Trudeau), music (Madonna, Celine Dion, Justin Bieber), the film industry (Ryan Gosling, Angelina Jolie) and royalty (Camilla, Queen of the United Kingdom)! All those celebrities have in common French-Canadian pioneers, and in particular Percheron pioneers.

For instance, Catherine Godet (1793-1855), the mother of Mary Anne Frances McDougall, is a direct descendant of Percheron pioneer Nicolas Gode, an emigrant originating from the vicinity of Ige (Orne, France).

Hillary Clinton's family tree counts other Percheron emigrants as the famous Jean Guyon, the direct ancestor of Celine Dion, Mathurin Gagnon, both originating from Tourouvre (Orne, France), Gaspard Boucher from Mortagne-au-Perche (Orne, France) and a common ancestor of Celine Dion, Madonna, Angelina Jolie and Camilla, Queen of the United Kingdom.

Moreover, Pierre Gagne, a pioneer from Ige like Nicolas Gode is represented in the ancestry of James McDougall, the father of Mary Anne Frances McDougall. This makes Hillary Clinton a relative of Celine Dion and Madonna.

As strange as it may seem, there is nothing exceptional about those family ties. As Percheron pioneers were among the very first French emigrants to settle in New France, most of North Americans with French-Canadian ancestry have Percheron blood and are more or less related.