Background and family life
Blair was born in Edinburgh, Scotland[9] on 6 May 1953,[10] the second son of Leo and Hazel Blair (née Corscadden). Leo Blair, the illegitimate[11] son of two English actors, had been adopted as a baby by Glasgow shipyard worker James Blair and his wife, Mary. Hazel Corscadden was the daughter of George Corscadden, a butcher and Orangeman who moved to Glasgow in 1916 but returned to (and later died in) Ballyshannon in 1923, where his wife, Sarah Margaret (née Lipsett), gave birth to Blair's mother, Hazel, above her family's grocery shop.[12][13] The Lipsett family in Donegal supposedly originated with a German Jewish immigrant to Ireland prior to the 18th century.[14] George Corscadden was from a family of Protestant farmers in County Donegal, Ireland,[15] who descended from Scottish settlers who took their family name from Garscadden, now part of Glasgow.
http://www.geneall.net/U/per_page.php?id=322638
Sarah Margaret Lipsett
+ 01.10.1978
Marriages
George Corscadden
Children
* Hazel Elizabeth Corscadden Leo Charles Lynton Blair
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Former British PM Tony Blair’s family is also of mixed heritage. His father, Leo Blair, was the illegitimate child of English actors (although Tony was born in Scotland). His mother, Hazel Corscadden, was the daughter of a butcher, and the family owned a grocery store. Tony Blair’s maternal grandmother, Sarah Margaret Lipsett, from Donegal, allegedly have German Jewish blood and emigrated to Ireland in the 18th century. Tony Blair himself was raised an Anglican but recently converted to Catholicism, his wife’s religion.
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George Corscaden1
M, #317737
Last Edited=29 Oct 2008
George Corscaden married Sarah Margaret Lipsett.1
Child of George Corscaden and Sarah Margaret Lipsett
* Hazel Elizabeth Rosaleen Corscaden+1 b. 12 Jun 1923, d. 28 Jun 1975
Citations
1. [S318] Edward J. Davies, "A Descent of Tony Blair From James V, King of Scots", The Genealogist Vol. 22, No. 2 (Fall 2008): page 247-255. Hereinafter cited as "Descent of Tony Blair From James V."
Sarah Margaret Lipsett1
F, #317738
Last Edited=29 Oct 2008
Sarah Margaret Lipsett married George Corscaden.1
Her married name became Corscaden.1
Child of Sarah Margaret Lipsett and George Corscaden
* Hazel Elizabeth Rosaleen Corscaden+1 b. 12 Jun 1923, d. 28 Jun 1975
Citations
1. [S318] Edward J. Davies, "A Descent of Tony Blair From James V, King of Scots", The Genealogist Vol. 22, No. 2 (Fall 2008): page 247-255. Hereinafter cited as "Descent of Tony Blair From James V."
http://www.answers.com/topic/lipsett
American Family Name Origins:
Lipsett
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Frequency: (227)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Irish: according to MacLysaght this is an Anglicized form of German (or Jewish) Lipsitz (see Lipschutz), brought to Ireland before the 18th century and common in Donegal.
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Lipschutz
American Family Name Origins:
Lipschutz
Home > Library > Literature & Language > American Family Name Origins
Frequency: (293)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from Liebschütz in Thuringia, Leobschütz in Upper Silesia, or Liebeschitz in Bohemia. The place names are of Slavic origin, from lipa ‘lime tree’.See also Lipsett.
GIVEN NAMES: Jewish 18%. Mendel (3), Naftali (3), Shulem (2), Benzion, Bina, Chaim, Hirsch, Meyer, Moishe, Pinchos, Riv, Rivka.
Blair was born in Edinburgh, Scotland[9] on 6 May 1953,[10] the second son of Leo and Hazel Blair (née Corscadden). Leo Blair, the illegitimate[11] son of two English actors, had been adopted as a baby by Glasgow shipyard worker James Blair and his wife, Mary. Hazel Corscadden was the daughter of George Corscadden, a butcher and Orangeman who moved to Glasgow in 1916 but returned to (and later died in) Ballyshannon in 1923, where his wife, Sarah Margaret (née Lipsett), gave birth to Blair's mother, Hazel, above her family's grocery shop.[12][13] The Lipsett family in Donegal supposedly originated with a German Jewish immigrant to Ireland prior to the 18th century.[14] George Corscadden was from a family of Protestant farmers in County Donegal, Ireland,[15] who descended from Scottish settlers who took their family name from Garscadden, now part of Glasgow.
http://www.geneall.net/U/per_page.php?id=322638
Sarah Margaret Lipsett
+ 01.10.1978
Marriages
George Corscadden
Children
* Hazel Elizabeth Corscadden Leo Charles Lynton Blair
http://dawsr.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/s ... ancestors/
Former British PM Tony Blair’s family is also of mixed heritage. His father, Leo Blair, was the illegitimate child of English actors (although Tony was born in Scotland). His mother, Hazel Corscadden, was the daughter of a butcher, and the family owned a grocery store. Tony Blair’s maternal grandmother, Sarah Margaret Lipsett, from Donegal, allegedly have German Jewish blood and emigrated to Ireland in the 18th century. Tony Blair himself was raised an Anglican but recently converted to Catholicism, his wife’s religion.
http://209.85.129.132/search?q=cache:MJ ... =firefox-a
George Corscaden1
M, #317737
Last Edited=29 Oct 2008
George Corscaden married Sarah Margaret Lipsett.1
Child of George Corscaden and Sarah Margaret Lipsett
* Hazel Elizabeth Rosaleen Corscaden+1 b. 12 Jun 1923, d. 28 Jun 1975
Citations
1. [S318] Edward J. Davies, "A Descent of Tony Blair From James V, King of Scots", The Genealogist Vol. 22, No. 2 (Fall 2008): page 247-255. Hereinafter cited as "Descent of Tony Blair From James V."
Sarah Margaret Lipsett1
F, #317738
Last Edited=29 Oct 2008
Sarah Margaret Lipsett married George Corscaden.1
Her married name became Corscaden.1
Child of Sarah Margaret Lipsett and George Corscaden
* Hazel Elizabeth Rosaleen Corscaden+1 b. 12 Jun 1923, d. 28 Jun 1975
Citations
1. [S318] Edward J. Davies, "A Descent of Tony Blair From James V, King of Scots", The Genealogist Vol. 22, No. 2 (Fall 2008): page 247-255. Hereinafter cited as "Descent of Tony Blair From James V."
http://www.answers.com/topic/lipsett
American Family Name Origins:
Lipsett
Home > Library > Literature & Language > American Family Name Origins
Frequency: (227)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Irish: according to MacLysaght this is an Anglicized form of German (or Jewish) Lipsitz (see Lipschutz), brought to Ireland before the 18th century and common in Donegal.
http://www.answers.com/topic/lipschutz
Lipschutz
American Family Name Origins:
Lipschutz
Home > Library > Literature & Language > American Family Name Origins
Frequency: (293)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from Liebschütz in Thuringia, Leobschütz in Upper Silesia, or Liebeschitz in Bohemia. The place names are of Slavic origin, from lipa ‘lime tree’.See also Lipsett.
GIVEN NAMES: Jewish 18%. Mendel (3), Naftali (3), Shulem (2), Benzion, Bina, Chaim, Hirsch, Meyer, Moishe, Pinchos, Riv, Rivka.
