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Orson Welles

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Jonathan Head

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Orson Welles — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 160 
  • Father:
  • Henry Head 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Lovett   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1678 
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  • Death Date:
  • from 14 Dec 1742 to 23 Nov 1748 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Susanna Wilcox
  • Marriage Date:
  • 7 Dec 1704 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island 
  • Child:

  Joseph Head (Ahnentafel No:80 )

• Sources for Jonathan Head

  • ¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 103, 119.
  • ² Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 293, 601.
  • ³ Wilbour, Benjamin Franklin, comp., Little Compton Families, Volume 1, Baltimore, Maryland: Reprinted for Clearfield Co. by Genealogical Publishing Co. (2003), 330.
  • ⁴ Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 12, Francis Cooke, Revised Edition, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press (2011, revised edition 3rd printing), 133-134.