Ancestry of
Raquel Welch

Movie Actress

Clarissa Vinton Thomas

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• • 2nd Great-grandmother of Raquel Welch — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 29 
  • Father:
  • Isaac Thomas 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Vinton   
  • Birth Date:
  • 28 Aug 1809 
  • Birth Location:
  • Greene, Androscoggin, Maine 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 10 Sep 1837 
  • Death Location:
  • Lewiston, Androscoggin, Maine 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Old Valley Cemetery, Greene, Androscoggin, Maine 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Elias Adams
  • Marriage Date:
  • 29 Jan 1829 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Greene, Androscoggin, Maine 
  • Child:

  Joseph Warren Adams (Ahnentafel No:14 )

  • Notes: 
  • Some sources list 19 MAR 1829 as the marriage date for Elias and Clarissa. Further investigation is needed to resolve the dispute.

• Sources for Clarissa Vinton Thomas

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A000637.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 02/05/2013).
  • ³ Mower, Walter L., Sesquicentennial History of the Town of Greene, Androscoggin County, Maine: 1775 to 1900, Auburn, Maine: Merrill and Webber (1938), 149, 391.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 306.
  • ⁵ Vinton, John Adams, The Vinton Memorial Comprising A Genealogy of the Descendants of John Vinton of Lynn, 1648, Boston: S.K. Whipple and Company (1858), 143, 243.

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