Ancestry of
Raquel Welch

Movie Actress

William Torrey

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Raquel Welch — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 812 
  • Father:
  • William Torrey 
  • Mother:
  • Jane Haviland   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1638 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Combe St. Nicholas, Somersetshire, England 
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  • Death Date:
  • 11 Jan 1717/1718 
  • Death Location:
  • Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Deborah Greene
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 14 Sep 1670 
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  William Torrey

  John Torrey

  Samuel Torrey

  Joseph Torrey

  Phillip Torrey (Ahnentafel No:406 )

  Haviland Torrey

  Josiah Torrey

  Jane Torrey

• Sources for William Torrey

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Weymouth, Vol. 1, p. 313, Birth record for son Phillip Torrey.
  • ² Carleton, Hiram, ed., Genealogical and Family History of the State of Vermont, New York: The Lewis Publishing Company (1903), 237.
  • ³ Chamberlain, George Walter, History of Weymouth Massachusetts, in Four Volumes, Vol. 4, Genealogy of Weymouth Families, Weymouth, Massachusetts: Weymouth Historical Society (1923), 678.
  • ⁴ Fenno-Gendrot, Almira Torrey Blake, The Ancestry and Allied Families of Nathan Blake 3rd and Susan (Torrey) Blake, Early Residents of East Corinth, Vermont, Boston, Massachusetts: Published by the Author, at the Stanhope Press (1916), 84, 94-95.
  • ⁵ Richardson, Douglas and Kimball G. Everingham, editor, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd edition, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2011), Vol. 2, pp. 379-380.
  • ⁶ Torrey, Frederic Crosby, The Torrey Families and Their Children in America, Vol. 1, Lakehurst, New Jersey: n. p. (1924), 13, 29-31.

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