Ancestry of
Orson Welles

Radio, Stage, and Movie Actor

Richard Head Welles

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• • Father of Orson Welles — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • Richard Jones Welles 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Blanche Head   
  • Birth Date:
  • 12 Nov 1872 
  • Birth Location:
  • near St. Joseph, Buchanan, Missouri 
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  • Death Date:
  • 28 Dec 1930 
  • Death Location:
  • Chicago, Cook, Illinois 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Beatrice Ives
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  (George) Orson Welles (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  • Notes: 

  • Richard Head Welles was born Richard Hodgdon Wells.

• Sources for Richard Head Welles

  • ¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 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), 292.
  • ³ Wikipedia, "Orson Welles", (accessed 02/04/2015).