Jan 03, 2024 15:52
The star reveals the research into the family tree: a great-great-grandfather from the Marche region of Ascoli appears
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Russell Crowe it (also) has distant Italian origins. The New Zealand-born Australian actor himself revealed this in a series of posts. However, in the end it turned out that “my great-great-great-grandfather on my mother's side, who came to New Zealand in 1864, was Luigi Ghezzi, born in Ascoli Piceno in 1829”.
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“Gladiator” he then says that Luigi Ghezzi was the son of “Augestine and Annunziata, born in Parma.” He went to work in Argentina, then embarked for India, was shipwrecked and landed in Cape Town, where he met and married Mary Ann Curtain. The two then emigrated to New Zealand. Russell Crowe conducted careful historical research into his ancestors, discovering Norwegian, Italian, Scottish and Maori ancestry. A DNA test from a close relative revealed he was of “predominantly Irish ancestry,” although we don’t know how or by whom.
“In my mother's family, three generations apart, there were women married to men named Crowe. Some people came to me to tell me we were related and I was a little skeptical because I thought I knew every member of the Crowe family, but I'm also related to another line of Crowes that apparently lived in Australia from an early age.”
The curiosities discovered by the Oscar winner Among the curiosities is the direct relationship, “on my father's mother's side, through John (Jock) Fraser, who arrived in New Zealand in 1841, with Simon Fraser, the eleventh Lord Lovat. An interesting character, nicknamed 'Old Fox.'” sent to the gallows at the age of 80, “a mark of shame” considering he was “the last man to be beheaded in the Tower of London “. There was a crowd watching the execution and a building constructed for spectators collapsed, killing nine people. Lord Lova laughed “and was still laughing” as the executioner cut off his head, “resulting in a proverbial phrase in English” that could be translated as “dying laughing.”
Russell Crowe, the Gladiator and Italy The actor loves Italy very much. Since he made Ridley Scott's film (but set in ancient Rome, Malta). And then he came several times over the years, both on vacation and to accept awards, make films and promote them. But so far he has never been to the places of origin of his ancestors. Discovering them could be “an adventure,” the actor concludes. “As mayor, I can only take this opportunity to publicly invite Russell Crowe to visit Ascoli. We will be happy to welcome him,” said the mayor of the city of Marche, Marco Fioravanti. At the end of June, Russell Crowe dedicated the concert with his rock band Indoor Garden Party in Bologna to the flood victims: “Let's play for Emilia Romagna”.
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