He died in Baltimore in 1849 at the age of 61.īiden joked in his speech that another William Biden, who was a relative of his, wrote the rules for dealing with mutiny in the Royal Navy.īiden assumed his middle name, Robinette, was French in origin, but now believes that they were French Huguenot Protestants who settled in Nottingham. The first reference to him in the New World was to a William Biden who was based in Maryland in 1822. The Bidens came from Westbourne in West Sussex. In his speech to the Ulster University, he joked that he was once told, “You are English, just remember it”. What about the other 6/16th? The US president made reference to his English ancestors the Bidens. Over the coming days he will visit his Finegan and Kearney relatives in Co Louth and the Blewitts in Co Mayo. Ronan McGreevy writes: Much has been made, not least by Biden himself, about his Irish ancestry.Īccording to the genealogist Megan Smolenyak, Biden is 10/16th Irish based on the ethnicity of his great-grandparents.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |