Nixon Family History & Genealogy

Lorna Jean Nixon of Rochester, Campaspe Shire County, VIC Australia was born in 1913 in Rochester to Ethel Maud (Wallis) Nixon and Francis Leonard Nixon. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Lorna Jean Nixon.

Richard Nixon of Rushworth, Campaspe Shire County, VIC Australia was born in 1863 in Maldon, Mount Alexander Shire County, and died at age 76 years old in 1939 in Rushworth, Campaspe Shire County.

Isabel IsabelSarah (Johnson) Nixon of Maldon, Mount Alexander Shire County, VIC Australia was born circa 1868, and died at age 58 years old in 1926 in Maldon.

Richard Clarence Nixon of Melbourne, VIC Australia was born in 1893 in Maldon, Mount Alexander Shire County, and died at age 83 years old in 1976 in Melbourne.

Effie Maud (Nixon) Binks of Bendigo, Greater Bendigo City County, VIC Australia was born in 1890 in Maldon, Mount Alexander Shire County, and died at age 73 years old in 1963 in Bendigo, Greater Bendigo City County.

Francis Leonard Nixon of Noble Park, City of Greater Dandenong County, VIC Australia was born in 1888 in Maldon, Mount Alexander Shire County, and died at age 93 years old in 1981 in Noble Park, City of Greater Dandenong County.

Ethel Maud (Wallis) Nixon of Toorak, City of Stonnington County, VIC Australia was born in 1891 in Malmsbury to Mary Emma (Stephenson) Wallis and John Flew Wallace. She had siblings Laura Mary Wallis, Henry John Wallis, William Leslie Wallis, and Raymond Frederick Wallis. She married Francis Leonard Nixon in 1912, and had a child Lorna Jean Nixon. Ethel Nixon died at age 57 years old on January 19, 1949 in Toorak.

Richard Milhous Nixon was born on January 9, 1913 in Yorba Linda, California to parents Francis Anthony Nixon (1878-1956) and Hannah Elizabeth Milhous (1885-1967). He was one of five children in his family. Nixon spent his early years on his family's lemon farm and later moved to Whittier, California, where he attended high school and college. Following his undergraduate studies, Nixon received a scholarship to attend Duke University School of Law, where he earned his law degree in 1937. He then began his political career where he rose to prominence as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California in the late 1940s, where he gained national attention for his role in the Alger Hiss case. Nixon then served as Dwight D. Eisenhower's vice president from 1953 to 1961, during which he played a significant role in shaping Cold War policies and handling international crises. After losing the 1960 presidential election to John F. Kennedy, Nixon staged a political comeback, winning the presidency in 1968 and again in 1972. His presidency was marked by significant domestic and foreign policy initiatives, including the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency, desegregation efforts, and diplomatic openings with China and the Soviet Union. However, Nixon's administration was also marred by the Watergate scandal, leading to his resignation in 1974, making him the only U.S. president to resign from office. Despite his resignation, Nixon remained a significant figure in American politics, continuing to influence public discourse through writing, speaking engagements, and international diplomacy until his death in 1994.

Gary Earl Nixon was born on December 29, 1950 in Lynchburg, Campbell County, Virginia United States. Gary Nixon got married to James Melville White on June 18, 2008 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Gary Earl Nixon.

Brenda Karen Nixon is the daughter of Arthur E Nixon Jr (1918-1999) and Anna Elmore McNeil (1921-2009). She was born on July 31, 1963 in Coatesville, Chester, Pennsylvania, USA and had five siblings including Mildred C. Maxwell (1947-2018). Brenda graduated from Coatesville Area High School (Coatesville, Pennsylvania, USA) in 1981. She was involved in a number of extracurriculars including serving as class officer, member of the girls indoor track club, pep club, the Society of Progressors, Spanish club, hockey, girls track, and more. After high school she went on to attend the West Chester University of Pennsylvania in West Chester, Pennsylvania and was a member of the Zeta Phi Beta sorority. See Brenda Nixon- Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Sisters.

Sofia (Nixon) Russell of Maldon, Mount Alexander Shire County, VIC Australia was born in 1868 in Maldon, and died at age 26 years old in 1894 in Maldon.

Mary Henrietta was a caring and wonderful mother and Grandmother. Mary had seven daughters. Mary married Samuel Nixon

Samuel Nixon, everyone called him Nico or Sam He worked on the wharf a quiet gentleman hard worker always came home black shoveling coal all day in the ships

Married John Charles Hucker in 1878. John Charles Hucker died on October 30, 1884, in Carlton. He was only 35.

Donald Nixon of Melbourne South Australia was born in 1850 at Kilbride, Isle of Arran, Scotland, United Kingdom, and died at age 82 years old on June 21, 1933 at 175 Gladstone St, South Melbourne in Melbourne South, Vic. Donald Nixon was buried at Brighton General Cemetery in Caulfield South, City of Glen Eira County.

NYTIMES Marni Nixon, the American cinema’s most unsung singer, died on Sunday in Manhattan. She was 86. The cause was breast cancer, said Randy Banner, a student and friend. Ms. Nixon, a California native, had lived in Manhattan, on the Upper West Side, for more than 40 years. Classically trained, Ms. Nixon was throughout the 1950s and ’60s the unseen — and usually uncredited — singing voice of the stars in a spate of celebrated Hollywood films. She dubbed Deborah Kerr in “The King and I,” Natalie Wood in “West Side Story” and Audrey Hepburn in “My Fair Lady,” among many others. Her other covert outings included singing for Jeanne Crain in “Cheaper by the Dozen,” Janet Leigh in “Pepe” and Ida Lupino in “Jennifer.” “The ghostess with the mostest,” the newspapers called her, a description that eventually began to rankle. Before her Hollywood days and long afterward, Ms. Nixon was an acclaimed concert singer, a specialist in contemporary music who appeared as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic; a recitalist at Carnegie, Alice Tully and Town Halls in New York; and a featured singer on one of Leonard Bernstein’s televised young people’s concerts. Her concerts and her many recordings — including works by Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Webern, Ives, Copland, Gershwin and Kern — drew wide critical praise. Yet as late as 1990, decades after Ms. Nixon had made good on her vow to perform only as herself, she remained, in the words of The Los Angeles Times, “the best known of the ghost singers.” Marni Nixon - My Fair Lady - Theater MARCH 6, 2007 At the midcentury, Hollywood was more inclined to cast bankable stars than trained singers in films that called for singing. As a result, generations of Americans have grown accustomed to Ms. Nixon’s voice, if not her face, in standards like “Getting to Know You,” from “The King and I”; “I Feel Pretty,” from “West Side Story”; and “I Could Have Danced All Night,” from “My Fair Lady.” Ms. Kerr was nominated for an Academy Award in 1956 for her role as Anna in “The King and I”; the film’s soundtrack album sold hundreds of thousands of copies. For singing Anna’s part on that album, Ms. Nixon recalled, she received a total of $420. “You always had to sign a contract that nothing would be revealed,” Ms. Nixon told the ABC News program “Nightline” in 2007. “Twentieth Century Fox, when I did ‘The King and I,’ threatened me.” She continued, “They said, if anybody ever knows that you did any part of the dubbing for Deborah Kerr, we’ll see to it that you don’t work in town again.” Marni Nixon as Eliza Doolittle in “My Fair Lady” onstage in 1964. Credit Alix Jeffry Though Ms. Nixon honored the bargain, her work soon became one of Hollywood’s worst-kept secrets. She became something of a cult figure, appearing as a guest on “To Tell the Truth” and as an answer to clues featured by “Jeopardy!,” Trivial Pursuit, and at least one New York Times crossword puzzle. Her increasing renown helped bring her spectral trade into the light and encouraged her to push for official recognition. “The anonymity didn’t bother me until I sang Natalie Wood’s songs in ‘West Side Story,’ ” Ms. Nixon told The Times in 1967. “Then I saw how important my singing was to the picture. I was giving my talent, and somebody else was taking the credit.” Although the studios seldom accorded Ms. Nixon the screen credit and royalties that she began to demand, both became customary for ghost singers. Starting as a teenager in the late 1940s and continuing for the next two decades, Ms. Nixon lent her crystalline soprano to some 50 films, sometimes contributing just a line or two of song — sometimes just a single, seamless note — that the actress could not manage on her own. The voice of an angel heard by Ingrid Bergman in “Joan of Arc”? It was Ms. Nixon’s. The songs of the nightclub singer, played by Ms. Kerr, in “An Affair to Remember”? Also Ms. Nixon. The second line of the couplet “But square-cut or pear-shape/These rocks don’t lose their shape,” with its pinpoint high note on “their,” from “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”? That was Ms. Nixon too. (The film’s star Marilyn Monroe sang most of the rest of the number, “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend.”) It was a decidedly peculiar calling — and not one on which Ms. Nixon had ever planned — entailing not so much imitating actors as embodying them. “It’s fascinating, getting inside the actresses you’re singing for,” she told The New York Journal-American in 1964. “It’s like cutting off the top of their heads and seeing what’s underneath. You have to know how they feel, as well as how they talk, in order to sing as they would sing — if they could sing.” Marni Nixon and Dick Latessa in the Encores! production of the musical “Music in the Air” at City Center in 2009. Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Over time, however, Ms. Nixon came to regard her spectacular mimetic gift as more curse than blessing. For despite her myriad accomplishments as a singer of art songs, she was obliged to spend years exorcising her ghostly cinematic presence.“It got so I’d lent my voice to so many others that I felt it no longer belonged to me,” she told The Times in 1981. “It was eerie; I had lost part of myself.” A petite, fine-boned woman who resembled Julie Andrews, Ms. Nixon was born Margaret Nixon McEathron on Feb. 22, 1930, in Altadena, Calif., near Los Angeles. She began studying the violin at 4 and throughout her childhood played bit parts — “the freckle-faced brat,” she called her typical role — in a string of Hollywood movies. At 11, already possessed of a fine singing voice, she won a vocal competition at the Los Angeles County Fair and found her true calling. She became a private pupil of Vera Schwarz, a distinguished Austrian soprano who had settled in the United States.At 17, Ms. Nixon appeared as a vocal soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Leopold Stokowski, singing in Orff’s “Carmina Burana.” She later studied opera at Tanglewood with Sarah Caldwell and Boris Goldovsky.During her teenage years, Ms. Nixon worked as a messenger at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Knowing of her musical ability — she had perfect pitch and was an impeccable sight reader — the studio began recruiting her to furnish the singing voices of young actresses. The work helped pay for Ms. Nixon’s voice lessons. Her first significant dubbing job was singing a Hindu lullaby for Margaret O’Brien in “The Secret Garden,” released in 1949. Ms. Nixon occasionally took center stage, as when she played Eliza Doolittle in a 1964 revival of “My Fair Lady” at City Center in New York. (Ms. Andrews had played a part in the original Broadway production, which opened in 1956.) In 1965, Ms. Nixon was seen on camera in a small role as a singing nun in “The Sound of Music,” starring Ms. Andrews. Liberace and Ms. Nixon on “The Hollywood Palace” in 1966. Credit ABC Photo Archives, via Getty Images On Broadway, Ms. Nixon appeared in the Sigmund Romberg musical “The Girl in Pink Tights” in 1954 and, more recently, in the musical drama “James Joyce’s ‘The Dead’ ” (2000), the 2001 revival of Stephen Sondheim’s “Follies” and the 2003 revival of “Nine.”Ms. Nixon’s first marriage, to Ernest Gold, a film composer who won an Oscar for the 1960 film “Exodus,” ended in divorce, as did her second, to Lajos Frederick Fenster. Her third husband, Albert Block, died in 2015. Survivors include her daughters from her first marriage, Martha Carr and Melani Gold Friedman; her sisters Donyl Mern Aleman, Adair McEathron Jenkins, and Ariel Lea Witbeck; six grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. A son from her first marriage, Andrew Gold, a popular songwriter whose hit “Thank You for Being a Friend” became the theme of the NBC sitcom “The Golden Girls,” died in 2011 at 59. Ms. Nixon’s other onscreen credits include “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.” In the 1970s and ’80s, she was the host of “Boomerang,” a popular children’s television show in Seattle, where she had made her home for some years before moving to Manhattan. She also supplied the singing voice of Grandmother Fa in Disney’s animated film “Mulan,” released in 1998. (The character’s spoken dialogue was voiced by the actress June Foray.) She taught for many years at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, where she was the founding director of the vocal department. But it was her work as a ghost that is enshrined forever in the cinematic canon: “West Side Story” won the Oscar for best picture of 1961; “My Fair Lady” won for 1964. Both films remain perennials on television. Ms. Nixon, who continued singing until she was in her 80s, eventually came to regard her heard-but-not-seen life with affection. She paid it homage in a one-woman show, “Marni Nixon: The Voice of Hollywood,” with which she toured the country for years. She did likewise in a memoir, “I Could Have Sung All Night,” published in 2006. (The memoir was written with a ghost, Stephen Cole, whom Ms. Nixon credited prominently on the cover and the title page.) In the few movie musicals made today, directors tend to cast actors who are trained singers (like Meryl Streep in “Into the Woods”) or those whose star power mitigates the fact that they are not (like Helena Bonham Carter in “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”). What this means is that the ghost singers who were once a Hollywood mainstay have now, for the most part, become ghosts themselves. A version of this article appears in print on July 26, 2016, on Page B8 of the New York edition with the headline: Marni Nixon, the Singing Voice Behind the Screen, Dies at 86. RELATED COVERAGE Marni Nixon - My Fair Lady - Theater MARCH 6, 2007

Dorothy Florence (Tucker) Nixon of Brisbane Australia was born on April 4, 1907 in Armadale, Victoria, and died at age 73 years old in 1980 in Brisbane, QLD.

Norman Charles Nugent Nixon of Australia was born on November 30, 1909 in Rockhampton, QLD, and died at age 90 years old on September 2, 2000 in Brisbane.

Martha Nixon of Albany, Shackelford County, TX was born on May 4, 1923, and died at age 82 years old on December 7, 2005.

Martha A Nixon of TX was born circa 1955. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Martha A. (Gilder) Nixon.