A person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another. Classified under: Nouns denoting people. Synonyms: heir; heritor; inheritor. Hypernyms (heir is a kind of...): receiver; recipient (a person who gets something)
Ella Jane Fitzgerald was born on April 17, 1917, in Newport News, Virginia. Her parents were William and Temperance (Tempie); they divorced shortly after she was born. Ella and her mother moved to Yonkers, New York, where they eventually moved in with her mother s boyfriend, Joseph Da Silva.
... in the Hall of Fame of the jazz magazine Down Beat.Fitzgerald's childhood Ella Fitzgerald was born on April 25, 1917, in Newport News, Virginia. Most biographies and reference books list the year of her birth as 1918, but her 199Ella Fitzgerald was born on April 25, 1917, in Newport News, Virginia.