{"id":957,"date":"2007-01-10T22:00:31","date_gmt":"2007-01-11T05:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/10\/peggy-yvonne-middleton-aka-yvonne-decarlo-aka-lily-munster\/"},"modified":"2007-01-10T22:00:31","modified_gmt":"2007-01-11T05:00:31","slug":"peggy-yvonne-middleton-aka-yvonne-decarlo-aka-lily-munster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/957","title":{"rendered":"Peggy Yvonne Middleton a.k.a. Yvonne DeCarlo a.k.a. Lily Munster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yvonne DeCarlo died on 08 Jan 2007 .\u00a0 She was born Margaret Yvonne Middleton on 01 Sep 1922 in Vancouver, British Columbia, although the exact date of her date of birth is the subject of some speculation .\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Through her life, Margaret usually went by the name of Peggy .\u00a0 Peggy&#8217;s father left\u00c2\u00a0in 1925,\u00a0and when\u00c2\u00a0she was 15 years old, her mother brought\u00c2\u00a0her to Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p>For a stage name,\u00a0Peggy took her own middle name and her mother&#8217;s middle name to become Yvonne DeCarlo .\u00a0 A beautiful young woman,\u00a0Peggy began a successful career in motion pictures; one of her most important roles was as the wife of Moses in the film <em>The Ten Commandments<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The role for which she is best known, however, was as Lily Munster on the television show <em>The Munsters<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Peggy\u00c2\u00a0was born too late to be listed on the currently available Canadian Census Records, and she arrived in the United States too late to be listed on the currently available United States Census Records .\u00a0 However, genealogical information about\u00c2\u00a0Peggy Yvonne Middleton is readily available on the internet, such as this clipping about her marriage to Robert Morgan.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"Yvonne DeCarlo Marriage\" href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/Yvonne-DeCarlo-Marriage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image953\" style=\"width: 278px; height: 192px\" height=\"192\" alt=\"Yvonne DeCarlo Marriage\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/Yvonne-DeCarlo-Marriage.jpg\" width=\"278\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Yvonne DeCarlo&#8217;s Marriage to Robert Morgan<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">SOURCE: &#8220;Yvonne DeCarlo Weds&#8221;. <em>Dallas Morning News<\/em>. November 22, 1955. Page 16 .\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/\">http:\/\/www.GenealogyBank.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The greatest source of records\u00c2\u00a0about Peggy\u00c2\u00a0on Ancestry.com is the Immigration Records, since\u00c2\u00a0she traveled frequently .\u00a0 Being a Canadian Citizen, she had to register as an alien each time she entered the United States .\u00a0 Peggy frequently traveled with Constance MacKenzie.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"Peggy Middleton 1951 Southampton\" href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/Yvonne-DeCarlo-1951-Mall-Cr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image956\" style=\"width: 457px; height: 139px\" height=\"139\" alt=\"Peggy Middleton 1951 Southampton\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/Yvonne-DeCarlo-1951-Mall-Cr.jpg\" width=\"457\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Passenger Manifest from Mallorca to New York 1951<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Based on this manifest,\u00a0Peggy was born in 1924 and Constance was born in 1901 .\u00a0 This manifest shows that the two women sailed in First Class on the S.S. Independence from Mallorca .\u00a0 Constance traveled with 5 pieces of luggage .\u00a0 Peggy traveled with 8 pieces of luggage .\u00a0 I don&#8217;t even own 8 pieces of luggage.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"Peggy Middleton 1952 Southampton\" href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/Yvonne-DeCarlo-1952-South-C1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image955\" style=\"height: 134px\" height=\"134\" alt=\"Peggy Middleton 1952 Southampton\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/Yvonne-DeCarlo-1952-South-C1.jpg\" width=\"456\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Passenger Manifest from Southampton to New York 1952<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Based on this manifest, Peggy and Constance have both become younger .\u00a0 Although this manifest was prepared a year after the previous manifest, both Peggy and Constance have become a year younger .\u00a0 Based on this information, Peggy was born in 1926, and Constance was born in 1903 .\u00a0 This time, the two women traveled First Class on the S.S. United States from Southampton .\u00a0 Constance traveled with 4 pieces of luggage and Peggy with 8.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">By examining the\u00c2\u00a0immigration records at Ancestry.com, one can follow Peggy around the world in the 1940s and 1950s .\u00a0 While most of our ancestors left behind only one passenger manifest, Peggy left dozens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yvonne DeCarlo died on 08 Jan 2007 .\u00a0 She was born Margaret Yvonne Middleton on 01 Sep 1922 in Vancouver, British Columbia, although the exact date of her date of birth is the subject of some speculation .\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Through her life, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/957\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-fr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}