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Orson Welles

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Joseph Head

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Orson Welles — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 80 
  • Father:
  • Jonathan Head 
  • Mother:
  • Susanna Wilcox   
  • Birth Date:
  • 1 Sep 1705 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island 
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  • Death Date:
  • AFT 14 Dec 1742 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Bathsheba Palmer
  • Marriage Date:
  • 27 Nov 1737 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island 
  • Child:

  Jonathan Head (Ahnentafel No:40 )

  • Notes: 

  • Joseph Head may have had a daughter named Phebe. Evidence is needed to support this.

• Sources for Joseph Head

  • ¹ Rhode Island Vital Records, 1636-1850 - Town and Church Records, Newport County, Vol. 4, p. 1-35, Marriage record for Joseph Head and Bathsheba Palmer.
  • ² Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 103, 119.
  • ³ 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.
  • ⁴ Wilbour, Benjamin Franklin, comp., Little Compton Families, Volume 1, Baltimore, Maryland: Reprinted for Clearfield Co. by Genealogical Publishing Co. (2003), 330.
  • ⁵ Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 12, Francis Cooke, Revised Edition, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press (2011, revised edition 3rd printing), 134, 337-338.