F. Scott Fitzgerald

Birth Name: Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

Date of Birth: September 24, 1896

Place of Birth: Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.

Date of Death: December 21, 1940

Place of Death: Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Ethnicity:
*father – English, Irish, some Scottish
*mother – Irish

F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. Part of the modernism literary movement, he wrote the novels This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, Tender Is the Night, and the unfinished The Last Tycoon, the novella The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, the short stories “The Ice Palace,” “Bernice Bobs Her Hair,” “May Day,” “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” “Winter Dreams,” “Absolution,” “The Rich Boy,” and “Babylon Revisited,” and the essay “Echoes of the Jazz Age.” He co-wrote the films Three Comrades (1938) and Winter Carnival.

F. Scott was the son of Mary “Mollie” and Edward Fitzgerald, who had a wicker furniture-manufacturing business, and was later a salesman. His family moved to Buffalo, New York, shortly after his birth, and also lived in Syracuse, NY, for a time, before returnign to Saint Paul. He was raised Catholic. He lived for a while as an expatriate in Europe, and befriended fellow Americans such as Ernest Hemingway. F. Scott had a turbulent marriage with his muse, novelist, painter, and socialite Zelda Fitzgerald, with whom he had a daughter, writer and journalist Frances Scott Fitzgerald. Zelda was the daughter of lawyer and politician Anthony D. Sayre.

Through his paternal grandmother, F. Scott was a second cousin, three times removed, of composer Francis Scott Key, who wrote “The Star Spangled Banner,” and who he was named after. F. Scott’s great-great-great-great-grandparents, Phillip Key and Susannah Gardiner, were also Francis’s paternal great-grandparents; Philip was born in Parish of St. Paul, Covent Garden, London, England. His father was a first cousin, twice removed, of Mary Surratt, who was hanged in 1865 for conspiring to assassinate U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.

F. Scott’s paternal grandfather was Michael T. Fitzgerald (the son of Benjamin Fitzgerald and Araminta Warfield). Michael was born in Maryland. Benjamin was from County Kerry, Ireland. Araminta was the daughter of John Worthington Warfield, who was of mostly English Colonial ancestry; and of Susanna/Susannah Holland, whose parents were from Portland, Dorset, England.

F. Scott’s paternal grandmother was Cecilia Ashton/Aston Scott (the daughter of John Scott and Eliza Maynadier Key). Cecilia was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and had deep Colonial American roots on both sides, of mostly English, and some Scottish, descent. John was born in Chestertown, Kent, Maryland, the son of Judge John Scott, Jr. and Elizabeth Goodwin Dorsey. F. Scott’s great-grandmother Eliza was born in Leonardtown, Maryland, the daughter of Philip Key and Rebecca Jowles Sothoron. Philip was a politician, who was a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Maryland, from 1791 to 1793.

F. Scott’s maternal grandfather was Philip Francis McQuillan (the son of James McQuillan and Mary Neason). Philip was Irish, the son of parents from Fermanagh. He became wealthy as a wholesale grocer.

F. Scott’s maternal grandmother was named Louisa Allen (the daughter of Joseph Allen). Louisa was born in Illinois. Joseph was an immigrant from Ireland.

Sources: Genealogies of F. Scott Fitzgerald – https://en.geneastar.org
https://www.wikitree.com
https://www.geni.com
https://pt.findagrave.com
https://famouskin.com