Share Ross

Birth Name: Sharon June Howe

Place of Birth: Glencoe, McLeod, Minnesota, United States

Date of Birth: March 21, 1962

Ethnicity:
*father – half Norwegian, half German
*mother – English, one eighth Dutch, one eighth Czech, some German, distant Scottish, likely some Irish

Share Ross, also known as Share Pederson, is an American rock musician. She was the bass player and high-harmony vocalist of all-female glam metal/hard rock band Vixen. Other members of the band are/were Janet Gardner, Jan Kuehnemund, and Roxy Petrucci.

Share is married to Bam Ross, of English bluesy hard rock band The Dogs D’Amour.

Share’s paternal grandfather was Arthur L. Howe (the son of John A. Haug Howe and Bolette Sofia Marie Iversdatter). Share’s grandfather Arthur was born in Faribault, Minnesota, to Norwegian parents. John was from Rakkestad, Østfold, the son of Anders Ingebretsen and Karine Larsdatter Finnestad.

Share’s paternal grandmother was Elinor Ida Harmel (the daughter of Gustave Julius Harmel and Emilie Auguste Schruhl). Elinor was born in Minnesota. Gustave was the son of Carl Harmell and Augusta Kern, who were born in Germany. Emilie was born in Jeziorki, then in the German Empire, now Poland, the daughter of August Schruhl and Emilie Mathilde Schruhl, who were ethnic Germans.

Share’s maternal grandfather was Gilbert Christian Kisor (the son of Lester Aaron Kisor and Anna Petronella De Bruyn Kops). Gilbert was born in Morristown, Minnesota. Lester was born in Waterville, Minnesota, the son of Aaron Kisor, who was of mostly German descent, and of Sarah Greenfield Dunlavey. Anna was born in Rice, Minnesota, the daughter of a Dutch father, Henry de Bruyn Kops, from Haarlem, and of a Czech mother, from Prague, Anna Petronella Sucre.

Share’s maternal grandmother was Glady Evelyn/Evaline Temple (the daughter of Lewis Eddy Temple and Laura Grace Henry). Gladys was born in Rice, Minnesota, and had deep roots in the U.S. Lewis was born in Mason City, Illinois, the son of Jonathan Peterson Temple and Diantha Rhoda Osborn. Share’s great-grandmother Laura was born in Morristown, Minnesota, the daughter of William Birchmore Henry, whose parents were from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, and whose maternal grandparents were English; and of Elizabeth Guist, whose maternal grandmother was Canadian.

Source: Genealogy of Share Ross (through her brother) – https://www.familysearch.org