Did You Know #31

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.