Like Father, Like Son?!!

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Granted that IS creepy as hell, but I also find his mom in similar category.










Many years ago when she was innocent & cute...



Every June or July for nearly a decade, the family Haldeman roamed the Kalahari desert in search of its fabled Lost City, retracing the steps of William Leonard Hunt, also known as Guillermo Farini, a Canadian explorer. In 1970, she married Errol Musk, an engineer she had met in high school, and a year later, Elon was born, followed by another son, Kimbal, and a daughter, Tosca. Ms. Musk earned a master’s degree in dietetics from the University of the Orange Free State in South Africa. (And later another in nutritional sciences from the University of Toronto.) The marriage, though, lasted barely nine years, and Ms. Musk left Pretoria for Durban, a coastal town. Elon and Kimbal asked their mother to move to San Francisco in 1996, where they started Zip2, a software company.
Maye Musk  (site use to have alot of info, but seems to have disappeared)


The Swiss connection...

Historians trace Elon Musk’s Swiss roots to Emmental

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has roots in a small, picturesque farming region in central Switzerland. Using genealogy websites and local archives, historians have been able to connect Musk with the Haldimann name, which is still present in the Emmental region today.

Using genealogy websites, the SonntagsZeitung was able to trace the family history back to 1544. At that time Bartholomeus Haldimann was born in the town of Signau in Emmental. This is eleven generations before Elon Musk’s great grandfather John Elon Musk was born. Bartholomeus’ son Andreas Haldimann was born in 1572 and his grandson Peter Haldimann on August 19, 1593. Local archives, based on church records, validate this.

Based on the journalist’s research, the Haldimann family emigrated to the US in 1719. There they renamed themselves Haldeman and settled in Pennsylvania.

“It is clear that Elon Musk has roots in Signau and Eggiwil because the Haldimanns have lived in this area since time immemorial. Another origin is impossible, because outside of the Emmental region this surname never appeared at that time,” said local historian Hans Minder.

Don't know if a bloodline relation but here's Château Haldimand castle in Quebec City, Canada.

Translated from German wiki...

Sir Frederick Haldimand KB (born August 11, 1718 in Yverdon; June 5, 1791 ibid; actually François-Louis-Frédéric Haldimand) was a Swiss military officer and colonial administrator in British service. He fought in the French and Indian Wars and was also stationed in Florida. From 1778 to 1786 he was governor of the province of Québec, one of the colonies in British North America, now Canada.

The family originally came from Eggiwil in the Emmental and settled in Thun in the 16th century. Grandfather Kaspar Haldemann, a cooper, moved to French-speaking Switzerland in 1671 and received citizenship of the town of Yverdon. The family name was later changed to the French spelling Haldimand.

Frederick Haldimand (German wiki)