 His patrilineal great-great grandfather, Englishman Elisha Redford, married Irish-Catholic Mary Ann McCreery in Manchester Cathedral; they emigrated to New York City in 1849, immediately settling in Stonington, Connecticut.They had a son named Charles, the first in line to have been given the name.Redford’s maternal lineage the Hart’s were Irish from Galway, the Green’s were Scots-Irish who settled in the 18th century.