Well I can't go all the way back to the beginning and tell you the first redheads on either side, being that I'm IRISH AND SCOTTISH you can pretty much guess that there have been many.
My father is an auburn...deep brown red, curly and covered in freckles with blue eyes and burn-tan skin.
My cousin Leah is a ravishing red, that carrot top glorious thick and wavy hair...she also has prominent features like a rather large nose and full lips, she's prone to wearing blue eyeliner and blue mascara. She also has two young ginger boys.
Her brother, my cousin Keith, he's a ginger too but more sandy...he looks just like Keith Moon.
I don't have any freckles...i have beauty marks.
I used to fake freckles in school, with brown eyeliner over the bridge of my nose and cheeks, and then I would pat it with powder to pretend i was trying to conceal them...every summer boys would say "I never noticed you had freckles...cute."
I have SEVERAL ginger friends.I sort of collect them. They're typically loud and outrageous and amazing.