Why should the New England Hall group be interested in the fact that Rachel Welch is 80. Old fogeys like myself remember her from her debut films like “One Million Years B.C.” in 1966.
The reason is simply that Rachel Welch (Jo Rachel [Tejada] Welch), through her mother Josephine Sarah Hall, is a descendant of the Hall Family of Yarmouth (DNA Family 020).
Not only that, but she could qualify as a member of the DAR with at least five already documented Patriot ancestors (that I know of…). Based on her maternal grandmother Clara Louise Adams, she is a first cousin six times removed from President John Adams.
When I mentioned recently the new NEHGS book by Gary Boyd Roberts “The Mayflower 500”, I said it listed many notable people with Mayflower ancestry and MANY also with New England Hall ancestry. Raquel is mentioned there because she has Mayflower lineage, also through her mother.
Roberts documents that through her maternal Hall grandfather Emery Stanford Hall (who was a well known architect) she descends from Pilgrims Edward Doty and Frances Eaton. My research adds an additional lineage from Richard Warren. I have not looked into her Stanford lineage, but I suspect we will find additional interesting ancestry there. Through her maternal grandmother’s Adams family, she descends from Pilgrims John Alden and Priscilla Mullins.
I recently posted a note on Facebook that relates to her Adams ancestry. Her great-grandmother Josephine Hall Merrill (1836-1899), wife of Joseph Warren Adams, was born in Maine to currently unidentified parents, but likely has an additional Hall lineage and, likely, they will come from southeastern Massachusetts and might have additional Mayflower lineages.
Raquel, it looks like you have melded well your father’s Bolivian ancestry with your mother’s New England ancestry. Congratulations on your 80th birthday. Time sure does fly…