what was lincolin's ethnicity/race?
2007-03-21 20:28:22 · 6 answers · asked by TDAdancer 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
Abraham Lincoln was mostly English on his father's side. Lincoln is an English name. The original Lincoln American colonist, Samuel Lincoln, arrived in Hingham, Massachusetts, in 1637, having departed from a town in England of that same name.
Abraham Lincoln also appears to have been mostly English on his mother's side. His mother was Nancy Hanks. Nancy was an illegitimate daughter of Lucy Shipley, who married James Hanks after Nancy was born, and Nancy took James' surname as her own.
Lucy had been an impoverished seamstress who wandered around taking sewing jobs. Nobody is really sure who Nancy Hanks' father was.
Abraham Lincoln was not Jewish. It was quite common among English Christian parents to name their children after characters in the Bible, which tradition is also customary among Jews.
Here's Abe's family tree insofar as I can see it.
Abraham Lincoln (16th US President)
F - Thomas Lincoln
FF - Abraham Lincoln (a prior)
FFF - John Lincoln
FFFF - Mordecai Lincoln
FFFFF - Samuel Lincoln
FFFFFF - Edward Lincoln
FFFFFM - Bridget Gilman
FFFFM - Sarah Jones
FFFM - Hanna Salter
FFM - Rebecca Flowers
FFMF - Enoch Flowers
FFMM - Rebecca Barnard
FFMMF - Richard Barnard
FFMMM - Francis Lambe
FFMMMF - Richard Lambe
FFMMMM - Lucy Baillie
FM - Bathsheba Herring
FMF - Alexander Herring
FMM - Abigail Harrison
M - Nancy Hanks
MF - James Hanks (?)
MFF - Joseph Hanks (?)
MFM - (unknown)
MM - Lucy Shipley
MMF - Robert Shipley JR.
MMFF - Robert Shipley SR.
MMFM - Elizabeth Stevens
MMM - Sarah Dorsey
Gilman is English (via German).
Jones can be English or Welsh.
Salter can be English or German.
Flowers is English.
Barnard can be English or French.
Lambe can be English or Irish.
Baillie is Scottish.
Herring can be English, Dutch, German or Scottish.
Harrison is English.
Hanks can be English, Scottish, Irish, or German.
Shipley is English.
Stevens is English.
Dorsey is English (via Norman).
All known lines of ancestry for Abraham Lincoln trace back to central or northern Europe, the UK, and Ireland. The only question about his racial composition comes from the uncertain paternity of Lincoln's mother, Nancy Hanks. Because of that uncertainty, some people are going around trying to claim one thing or another, perhaps for political reasons.
2007-03-21 20:40:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
For his father side: Welsh Americans (Welsh Americans are citizens of the United States whose ancestry originates in the northwest European nation of Wales (which is part of the United Kingdom).
2007-03-22 03:54:08 · answer #2 · answered by myllur 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A proud white man who gave his amazing wisdom to all of any color.Did you know Lincoln was one of the first 15 presidents who DIDN'T have a child with a slave? Also one of the first to refuse having slaves? He remains one of our best leaders ever.
2007-03-22 05:44:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
It is interesting that you ask this question. I just read an article in the newspaper a couple of weeks ago, that he might have been jewish, but it was not conclusive. His race was "white"
2007-03-22 05:46:41 · answer #4 · answered by michelebaruch 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
white
2007-03-23 00:13:07 · answer #5 · answered by blondie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/genealogy/
presidents/presidents.html
(It won't fit on one line, so use copy/paste,
without the added ...)
2007-03-22 06:24:37 · answer #6 · answered by also... 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋