She has been called "Miss Photogenic," "Miss San Diego," "Miss Maid of California," and "The Worst Actress of All Time." She tried out for the role of Mary Ann in "Gilligan's Island" in the mid-1960's, and has appeared as a "Foster Grant" sunglasses girl. In 1995 she was ranked #18 in Empire magazine's one 100 Sexiest Stars in film history.Raquel Welch was born in Chicago on September 5, 1940 to a Bolivian aerospace engineer and the daughter of Irish-American architect Emery Stanford Hall. When Jo Raquel Tejada was only two the family relocated to San Diego, California.
Raquel was married four times (James Westley Welch; Patrick Curtis; André Weinfeld, and Richard Palmer) and worked as the weather girl for a local San Diego TV channel. She appeared in a number of TV and movie roles, but her big break came in 1966 when she appeared in the movie One Million Years B.C. and quickly assumed a role she retains today, as an American Sex Symbol (which she has likened to being a convict).
Here is the family connection:
| Baron William De Ros VI and Margaret Fitzalan | ||
| Margaret De Ros b.1398 | Baron Thomas De Ros IIX b.1406 | |
| Anne Tuchet b.1422 | 1 | Richard De Ros b.1428 |
| Margaret Dutton b.1446 | 2 | Mary De Ros b.1478 |
| Richard Aston b.1465 | 3 | Margaret Capell b.1500 |
| Thomas Aston b.1490 | 4 | Geoffrey Warde b.1526 |
| Ellen Aston b.1510 | 5 | Thomas Warde b.1548 |
| Thomas Lathrop b.1536 | 6 | Richard Ward b.1575 |
| John Lathrop b.1584 | 7 | Gov. Andrew Ward I b.1597 |
| Abigail Lathrop b.1636 | 8 | Esther Ward b.1623 |
| John Clark b.1672 | 9 | Daniel Burr b.1660 |
| John Clark b.1700 | 10 | Elizabeth Burr b.1696 |
| Cutting Clark b. 1754 | 11 | Nathaniel Hull b.1726 |
| Betsey Clark b.1786 | 12 | Ezekiel Hull b.1765 |
| Elbridge Gerry Hall b. 1810 | 13 | Platt Hull b.1787 |
| Justin Smith Hall b. 1840 | 14 | Ezekiel Hull b.1813 |
| Emery Stanford Hall b. 1869 | 15 | Rebecca L. Hull b.1841 |
| Josephine Sarah Hall b. 1909 | 16 | Frank Martin Bragg b.1867 |
| Jo Raquel Tejada b. 1940 [Raquel Welch] | 17 | Orval Bishop Bragg b.1895 |
This would make Raquel Welch and our grandfather 17th cousins, making us 17th cousins 2 times removed.
