 "A ledger from the Kensal Green Cemetery in Great Britain recorded the burial of Michael Wilson, Sen. Ted Cruz’s half-brother, on Dec. 9, 1966.")
On Ted Cruz’s Canadian birth certificate, his mother is listed as Eleanor Darragh Wilson, using the last name of her first husband, Alan Wilson. The Fort Worth native and long-time resident of London, Wilson is now an unwitting player in the drama that surrounds Cruz’s family.
Wilson, who has never previously spoken about his past with the news media, told McClatchy in a telephone interview from London that he did not realize he was connected to the U.S. Texas senator, however indirect. He didn’t realize that his first wife, Eleanor, whose maiden name is Darragh, had such a well-known son, whose citizenship is at issue in the presidential campaign, or that “Wilson” is on the birth certificate.
“I’ll be darned,” said Wilson, who speaks in a soft tone with traces of his Texas origins. “No kidding. That is Eleanor’s son? I had no idea.” He said he knew that she “had married a man named Cruz” but little else and had not made the connection to the presidential candidate.
Cruz’s mother is at the center of an explosive issue in the GOP presidential primary, whether the Texas senator is eligible to be president. During Thursday night’s GOP debate, Cruz and New York billionaire Donald Trump battled over Cruz’s claim that he’s a “natural born” citizen, a requirement in the Constitution for any president.
Cruz relies on his mother’s U.S. citizenship for his “natural-born” status since his father, Rafael Cruz, held Cuban citizenship at the time of Ted Cruz’s birth.
During the debate, Cruz said it is “settled law” that a child born abroad of a U.S. citizen is automatically a U.S. citizen at birth and therefore “natural born.” But Trump disagreed, and legal experts differ on what the law provides. No U.S. president has ever been boirn outside the United States.
Wilson confirmed one fact critical to Cruz’s presidential campaign, that Cruz’s mother never became a British subject while she was working in London. Despite his many years in Britain, Wilson said he too never became a citizen of the United Kingdom.
Wilson makes a brief appearance in Cruz’s book, “A Time for Truth: Reigniting the Promise of America,” which was published last year.
“In 1956, my mom married her first husband, a mathematician named Alan Wilson,” Cruz wrote. The couple moved to London in 1960 after a few years working in the U.S., and Cruz revealed something of a bombshell: his mother had given birth to a son, Michael Wilson, in 1965, who had died a crib death later in the year.
Cruz wrote about her mother’s devastation: “Losing Michael to crib death broke my mother’s heart, and had a profound effect on her, so much so that I never even knew that I had had a brother until I was a teenager and my mother told me the story.”
Cruz added, “And the heartbreak also ended her marriage.”
Wilson, floored to learn that he was mentioned in Cruz’s book, said, in a bombshell of his own, that the account is not accurate: He was not the father of the baby.
“We were divorced and she was living on her own,” said Wilson. He said that Eleanor asked him if she could use his last name on the birth certificate. When Michael Wilson later died, he said, “I hadn’t even met the baby.”
Alan Wilson said by chance he and Eleanor Wilson were being treated in the same hospital when she was pregnant when a nurse told his “his wife” was there – startling the Fort Worthian. “I didn’t know she was pregnant. We were definitely divorced.”
Asked what went wrong, he said, “Marriages don’t always work. It wasn’t because of infidelities or anything like that.”
He said the time frame was around 1963 that they were divorced. Although Cruz in his book cites 1965 for Michael Wilson’s birth and death, London records obtained by McClatchy show that a Michael Wilson was born and died in 1966 and was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery in Kensington, a London neighborhood.
Cruz’s mother did not return a phone message to her Houston home asking for comment.
Eleanor Wilson left England sometime after the death of Michael and returned to the United States, where she met Rafael Cruz, whom she married in 1969. Ted Cruz was born in Calgary, Alberta, in 1970.
Told that Eleanor had used his last name on Ted Cruz’s birth certificate, Wilson said, “I see. That’s interesting.” Pressed to say how he felt about it, he said, “I don’t have any feelings about it.” He later wondered, “Why did she do that? Maybe she’s adopting that name for no reason.”
Asked about what he thought of Ted Cruz, Wilson said, “I don’t necessarily keep track of what’s going on in the States. . . I know nothing about it.” He said he was neither a Democrat nor a Republican and does not vote. “I’m not there,” he said.
Eleanor Darragh and Alan Wilson met at Rice University in Houston in the 1950s when she was studying mathematics and he was a Ph.D. student in mathematics. They married in 1956 after Eleanor, then 21, graduated from Rice. Wilson received three degrees from Rice: a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering in 1949, a Masters in mathematics in 1956 and a Ph.D. in 1958. He also served in the Air Force after getting his bachelor’s degree.
Although Wilson lived in various places in Texas, he still remembers Fort Worth well. “I was born there – 15 years of memories,” he said.
Wilson was born at Fort Worth’s St. Joseph’s Infirmary, a now defunct hospital, in 1928 to locally well known parents, Joseph Alan Wilson and Burness Elizabeth Elliston. The father was in advertising and later became an oil executive and the couple lived on Irwin Avenue in the well-heeled Mistletoe Heights neighborhood.
Wilson went to the city’s R. L. Paschal High School but the family moved to Dallas and he spent his senior year at Highland Park High School where he graduated in 1945.
But because he still had friends at Paschal, he attended his class’s 50th reunion in 1995. “I saw Fort Worth as it had been transformed,” he said, adding it was the last time he saw the city.
Wilson had no children of his own, and was married two more times to English women. He is retired after a long career working with computers.
Asked if he would like to talk to his first wife, Wilson paused. “No, I don’t think so. I’m glad things are well. I would be glad to read about her. I wish her every happiness.”
FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM RESEARCH DIRECTOR CATHY BELCHER CONTRIBUTED TO THIS REPORT.
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January 16th, 2016 @ 5:41 am
Seems to be hinting that cruz, just like obama, may be a product of illegitimate birth. No matter, his birth story, what they actually pass off as his circumstance of birth, is exactly what exposes him as a fraud, and not a “Natural Born” U.S. citizen,just like the fraud and foreign infiltrator obama.
Only the ignorant, traitorous liars, or cowards, refer to obama as president. Only the ignorant, traitorous liars, or cowards, claim cruz, rubio, or jindal, are “Natural Born” U.S. citizens.
January 16th, 2016 @ 11:24 am
Wow! This does have some intrigue!
With all the foreign loyalties, and Cruz born in Canada, there’s no way he’s eligible to run for the Oval Office!
How obnoxious can a candidate get?
He’s totally untrustworthy!
January 16th, 2016 @ 1:57 pm
Has Cruz listed this name on forms asking under what other names he may have been known? If not, this also a “convenient oversight” and dishonest.
January 16th, 2016 @ 2:42 pm
Let’s never forget that Obama used hundreds of Tax Payers hard earned dollars to fight his place of Birth. Not to forget the many of Lawyers. To what ends? TO HIDE HIS REAL PLACE OF BIRTH. Give me a break. Where are all of his records of his College transcripts? NOT to be found. What was he a ghost? Get a live Trump.
January 16th, 2016 @ 4:13 pm
Might Cruz’s children STILL be
DUAL CITIZENS
even though the senator gave up HIS Canadian Citizenship recently? He was STILL CANADIAN when they were born in 2008 and 2011:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_nationality_law
Canadian citizenship by descent
Every person born outside of Canada in
the first generation abroad
is a Canadian citizen by descent.
January 16th, 2016 @ 5:40 pm
Two things:
What does Cruz’ affidavit that he generated to enter the U.S. Senate say?
And facetiously: Why don’t we we just let Cruz slide on this so he can maybe become the Republican candidate? The Democrats would never throw the issue into the courts in all 50 states leading up to the election, just to win the presidency for Hillary… that would be beneath them.
January 16th, 2016 @ 7:36 pm
I like Kevin Lankford’s comments. So it seems that Cruz the Cuban might not be the bio Dad, this british citzen Wilson was. How ironic the only two Presidential Usurpers were British citizen and Ted was definitely a Canadian citizen which is part of Great Britain and could have also gotten British citizenship from Mr. Wilson possibly his real bio dad. https://www.royal.gov.uk/MonarchAndCommonwealth/Canada/TheQueensroleinCanada.aspx
Does father Cruz use his mother to gain entrance into America in return for caring for Ted?
January 16th, 2016 @ 9:50 pm
Why would we want a Cuban for our president since it seems strange that Obama just kissed up to Cuba? Castro was a slick talker just like Cruz!!! My husband and I are 85 and lived when America was GREAT and both grew up on a farm, and yes, people held on to their guns and religion — and work was hard!!
All of the people I have spoken to admire a real American (Mr.Trump)and want him to be our next President.
Now, as to citizenship, Barack Obama’s Birth
Certificate is in the British Archives in Series RG36 of the Family Records section in the Kew branch of the British National Archives. Kenya was still under British colonial rule. Kenya achieved independence from British colonial rule in 1963.
The reason Obama’s mother was in Kenya was to attend a Muslim festival in Mombasa. She was 9 months pregnant, was refused entry to fly,labor pains started so she was rushed to the Coast Provincial General Hospital in Mombasa, and Obama was born a few hours later at 7:21pm on August 4, 1961 — his father and Kenyan grandmother were present. 4 days later Obama’s mother flew to Hawaii and registered his birth in Honolulu as a Certificate of Live Birth which omitted the place and hospital of birth.
I have a copy of Obama’s Kenya Birth Certificate with his little foot print on it and all the true information. I forgot to tell you what Hillary did in 2009. “Crosby also alleges that, while the documents were once freely available, after Hillary made a visit to the BNA in 2009, the BNA changed its policy, and refused to allow anyone access to the documents. They now had “privileged” status.”
I hope to find out WHO VETTED OBAMA??????? Also, who is he? where did he come from? how could he go to Harvard as a Foreign Student?? Also, his mother married an Indonesian man and Obama was registered in school as a Muslim and his religion was registered as ISLAM !!!! That is no doubt why he doesn’t want to say radical Islam terrorists. Another thing,he uses a SS# of a dead man who was born in the 1800’s, etc., etc……
This information used to be available on the internet until Obama blocked it. You can keep up by going to http://www.orlytaitzesq.com. She is an Attorney and a dental surgeon.
I hope I have enlightened many as to what we really have in the White House. Thank you, Dee Seehusen
January 17th, 2016 @ 4:56 am
Just read that R. B. Cruz became a Canadian citizen in 1973 and a U. S. Citizen in 2005.
Ted Cruz have brother was buried in London on
December 9, 1966. He was born a British subject in circa 1966. Wiki claim a second brother born in 1960 and died in 1965. How many
half brothers does Ted Cruz ever have. Alan
Wilson claims he is not the father of any of
the children of Ted Cruz mother. Who is and
what is their nationality at birth?
January 17th, 2016 @ 5:07 am
The Republicans have earned the nickname Party of the Dumb in allowing first three, now two ineligible candidates to run for the presidency.As with all politicians they never admit to mistakes but double down on their stupidity.Every so called defense of Cruz is double talk and mumbo jumbo. Cruz may be an American citizen but he certainly is not a natural born citizen.
January 17th, 2016 @ 5:24 am
no, she was divorced from Wilson by then. Wilson stayed in UK, she went back to US and married Cruz. I don’t know why she kept the last name Wilson. Maybe she simply liked an all American name. Did anyone see the divorce decrees and a marriage certificate for Rafael Cruz and Eleonor Darrah Wilson?