Butch Cassidy Had Brit Ancestry
American outlaw Butch Cassidy had Geordie roots, it has emerged. His mum was born in Newcastle and lived there for decades before moving to the United States.
Butch's Geordie link was discovered by fan Mike Bell, who saw the movie as a teenager - in Newcastle, reports the Sun.
Mike, now 52, said: "I've been from Utah to Argentina looking for information on Butch. All the time the house where his mum lived was around the corner."
Butch, christened Robert Leroy Parker, was born in Utah in 1866.
But according to census records, mum Ann Gillies - whose parents were Scottish - lived for years in Brandling Village at Jesmond, Newcastle, before emigrating to start a new life in New York.
She later moved to Utah and wed Butch's dad Maximilian Parker in 1865.
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The D'estourmel, D'estournel name originates from the Capet Royal Family of France and produced Kings, Dukes, Barons through out
French History from the 8th Century to the 20th with the Nobel Prize winner Baron Paul Henri Benjamin Balluet D'estournelles De Constant. There were Barons pre and post Revolution there was Huguenots and Catholics, Royalists and Revolutionaries who were all descendants.
The English ones are now Disternal's due to 18th Century changes in spelling.
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