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.
Ella Jane Fitzgerald was born in Newport News, Va. on April 25, 1917. Her father, William, and mother, Temperance (Tempie), parted ways shortly after her birth. Together, Tempie and Ella went to Yonkers, N.Y, where they eventually moved in with Tempie's longtime boyfriend Joseph Da Silva.