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Sorry, Johen, if this spoils the game, but she's indeed Irish, or at least half Irish. When I went to youtube to listen to the song, the next one to come up was a song that's more recent and has her full name: Shannon Leeman. A quick google search says she's the daughter of the Irish consul in a Mexican city. The surname is also Irish. It matches her looks. However, if you told me she was half Mexican I wouldn't be surprised, necessarily, especially if the Mexican side was mostly "Iberian" in ancestry. I think there's more "Med" in her than there is in some Irish women.
As you say, she is not the better example for Irish women.
Concerning surname, he is not taken in account in Edw. MacLysaght's book about "Surnames of Ireland".
I just found this, serious enough seemingly, but not by force the Gospel:
Last name: Leeman
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Recorded as Leman, Leeman and the patronymic Leemans, this is an English surname. Deriving from the pre 7th century elements "Leof-mann" with leof meaning beloved and "mann," a friend, it is first recorded in the famous Domesday Book of 1066 as Leman of Hampshire. Other early personal name recordings include Lemannus de Fordham in the register of Holme Abbey, Norfolk in 1175, and the strange variant of "Lufmancat" also from Hampshire, in 1273. The surname development may also have a later Huguenot influence as the name is recorded heraldically for the Province of Holland. The medieval surname development includes recordings such as William Lemmon of Worcester in 1275, whilst a much later recording taken at random from church registers is that of Robert Leeman who married Ann Campions at St. Martin's Church, Stamford Baron, Northamptonshire, on November 27th 1788. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Reiner Leman. This was dated 1185, in the Knight Templar (crusader) register forthe county of Essex, during the reign of King Henry 11nd of England, 1154 - 1189.
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