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'''Orson Welles''', (1915 - 1985) Actor

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==Orson Welles==

Orson Welles was born 6 May 1915 in Kenosha, Kenosha County, [[Wisconsin]], the second son of Richard Head Welles, and Beatrice Ives. 

Sometime before Mar 15 1932 he moved to Highland Park, [[Illinois]].

Sometime before 1951 he moved to [[New York]].

His second wife was actress [[Rita Hayworth]].

He died 10 Oct 1985 in Hollywood, Los Angeles County, California, but had been recently living in Las Vegas.

===Primary Documents===
*[http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/view.aspx?dbid=7488&path=1932.3.15.Olympic.36&fn=Orson&ln=Welles&st=r&pid=2014794677&rc=&zp=75 New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957] for the ship Olympic on Mar 15, 1932 stating "Olympic sailing from Southampton, arriving at New York.  Orson Welles, age 16, male, single, born May 6, 1915 Kenosha, Wisc., residing at 1928 Groveland avenue, Highland Park, Eavinia, Illinois."

*[http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=View&r=an&dbid=50000&iid=95497913&fn=orson&ln=welles&st=d&ssrc=&pid=124797 ''New York Times'' (New York)], [[Nov 18]], 1934 "Orson Welles Actor to Wed", "...will be married... to Virginia Nicholson of Wheaton, Ill.  Mr Welles, 19 years old.... Miss Nicholson, 18, is the daughter of Leo Nicholson, a Chicago real estate man."

*[http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=View&r=an&dbid=50000&iid=118514459&fn=orson&ln=welles&st=d&ssrc=&pid=125331 ''New York Times'' (New York)], [[Dec 24]], 1934  "Miss Virginia Nicolson... to Orson Welles... [in Llewellyn Park, New Jersey]"

*[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&rank=0&f1=Orson&f2=&f0=Welles&sx=&f4Day=&f4Month=&f4Year=&f6=&f5Day=&f5Month=&f5Year=&f7=&f10=&f9=&f3=&f8=&prox=1&f4=++&f5=++&db=cadeath1940&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&fh=0&recid=7810852&recoff=2+3 California Death Index], stating "George Orson Welles, born 6 May 1915 Wisconsin, mother's maiden name IVES, died 10 Oct 1985 Los Angeles County

*[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&rank=0&gsfn=Orson&gsln=Welles&sx=&f9=&f8=&f10=&f6=&f5=&f7=&f1=&f15=&f14=&f13=&f12=&f20=&f0=&prox=1&db=ssdi&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&fh=0&recid=74721653&recoff=1+2 Social Security Death Index], stating "Orson Welles, last residence Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, born 6 May 1915, died Oct 1985, SSN issued by New York before 1951"

===Other sources===
*[http://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00084581&tree=LEO Entry on genealogics]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Welles Entry on wikipedia]
*[http://trees.ancestry.com/owt/person.aspx?pid=32797297&st=1 Entry on OneWorldTree]

*[http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/BookView.aspx?dbid=49024&pageno=58 ''American Ancestors and Cousins of the Princess of Wales''], by Gary Boyd Roberts & William Addams Reitwiesner. Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc. Baltimore, 1984. page 58-9 [[Orson_Welles_to_Diana|here]]

==Richard Head Welles==
Richard Head Welles was born about 1872 in Missouri to Richard Welles and his wife Mary Head.  His mother Mary remarried to Fredrick Yotthersen and the family moved to Kenosha, Wisconsin, where they appear in the 1900 census.

Beatrice Ives was born about 1871 in Illinois.  They married about 1903/4 and had their eldest son Richard I about 1905/6, and second son Orson in 1915.

Wikipedia states that "...his parents divorced when he was six" [so 1921 or 1922], "...Beatrice Welles died of jaundice on May 10, 1924 in a Chicago hospital. Richard Welles became an alcoholic and died when Orson was fifteen....Maurice Bernstein became his guardian."

===Primary documents===
*[http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=View&r=an&dbid=7602&iid=WIT623_1794-0175&fn=Jacob+R&ln=Yotthersen&st=r&ssrc=&pid=63409375 1900 Census of Kenosha, Wisconsin], transcribed [[RichardWellesC1900|here]]

*[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?viewrecord=1&ti=0&r=an&db=1910USCenIndex&F2=WIT624_1715-0168 1910 Census of Kenosha, Wisconsin], transcribed [[RichardWellesC1910|here]]

===Other sources===
*[http://trees.ancestry.com/owt/person.aspx?pid=32889996 Entry on OneWorldTree]

==Beatrice Ives==
Beatrice Ives was born 1870/1 (she is 39 in 1910), in Illinois.  She married Richard Head Welles about 1903/4 and had one son Richard Ives Welles about 1905/6.

Wikipedia states about Orson Welles, that "...his parents divorced when he was six" [so 1921 or 1922], "...Beatrice Welles died of jaundice on May 10, 1924 in a Chicago hospital. Richard Welles became an alcoholic and died when Orson was fifteen....Maurice Bernstein became his guardian."

===Primary documents===
*[http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=view&dbid=7365&iid=NEWS-WI-DA_NO.1903_02_11_0004&r=an&rc=4872,2150,5017,2183;4475,2179,4592,2212&fn=richard&ln=welles&st=d&ssrc=&pid=473508868 ''The Daily Northwestern'' (Oshkosh, Wisconsin)], [[Feb 11]], 1903, page 4, "Persons and Things", "The engagement of Richard Head Welles of Kenosha and Miss Beatrice Ives of Chicago is announced.  Miss Ives was formerly a social leader at Detroit."
*[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?viewrecord=1&ti=0&r=an&db=1910USCenIndex&F2=WIT624_1715-0168 1910 Census of Kenosha, Wisconsin], transcribed [[RichardWellesC1910|here]]
*[http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=View&r=an&dbid=50000&iid=432023852&fn=richard&ln=welles&st=d&ssrc=&pid=1342123 ''Chicago Daily Tribune''], [[12 May]], 1924 (obituary), "Welles &mdash; Beatrice Ives Welles, May 11, wife of Richard Head Welles; mother of Richard Ives and George Orson Welles.  Funeral services at chapel, 1253-5 N. Clark St, Tuesday, May 13, at 10:30 a.m. Interment Kenosha, Wis."

===Other sources===
*[http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=1988-quest_1&id=I07031 An entry in the Ancestry World Tree] which evidently gives an obit although the underlying source is not indicated so it should be viewed with a bit of skepticism
*[http://trees.ancestry.com/owt/person.aspx?pid=12897160&st=1 OneWorldTree entry]

==Richard Welles==
An unconfirmed entry in the Ancestral World Tree gives that Richard was born 1843 in Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania; he married Mary Blanche Head 1868 in Kenosha; and that his father was Henry Hill Welles b 1797 in Sussex County, Delaware.

The 1880 census states that he was born abt 1843 but in New York.

===Primary sources===
*[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&rank=0&gsfn=mary&gsln=welles&sx=y&f5=&f4=&f7=&f42=&f15=&f8=&f21=Wisconsin&rg_81004011__date=1850&rs_81004011__date=5&_8000C002=&f28=&_80008002=&f16=&_80018002=&f6=&f11=&f10=&f22=&f43=&gskw=&prox=1&db=1880usfedcen&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&fh=7&recid=33255645&recoff=1+2+21+22+23 1880 Census of Kenosha, Wisconsin]

===Other sources===
*[http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ttg13&id=I42215 An entry in the Ancestry World Tree] which states his birthplace, marriage place and father, but with a useless underlying citation.

==Mary Head==
Born about 1847 in Wisconsin, possibly in Kenosha. Married Richard Welles between 1860 and 1880.

===Primary sources===
*[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=1850usfedcenancestry%2c&rank=0&gsfn=orson&gsln=head&sx=&gs1co=1%2cAll+Countries&gs1pl=1%2c+&year=&yearend=&sbo=0&srchb=r&prox=1&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&o_iid=21416&o_lid=21416&o_it=21416&fh=0&recid=8054459&recoff=1+3 1850 Census of Kenosha, Wisconsin], transcribed [[OrsonHeadC1850|here]]

*[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=1860usfedcenancestry%2c&rank=0&=%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c&gsfn=&gsln=head&sx=&gs1co=2%2cUnited+States+&gs1pl=52%2cWisconsin&year=&yearend=&sbo=0&srchb=r&prox=1&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&fh=30&recid=27051014&recoff=3 1860 Census of Kenosha, Wisconsin]

*[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&rank=0&gsfn=mary&gsln=welles&sx=y&f5=&f4=&f7=&f42=&f15=&f8=&f21=Wisconsin&rg_81004011__date=1850&rs_81004011__date=5&_8000C002=&f28=&_80008002=&f16=&_80018002=&f6=&f11=&f10=&f22=&f43=&gskw=&prox=1&db=1880usfedcen&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&fh=7&recid=33255645&recoff=1+2+21+22+23 1880 Census of Kenosha, Wisconsin]

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==Orson Sherman Head==
Orson Sherman Head was born 9 Oct 1817 according to an unsourced AWT entry.  The census of 1850 shows him as age 31, born New York, a lawyer.

===Primary Sources===
*[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=1850usfedcenancestry%2c&rank=0&gsfn=orson&gsln=head&sx=&gs1co=1%2cAll+Countries&gs1pl=1%2c+&year=&yearend=&sbo=0&srchb=r&prox=1&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&o_iid=21416&o_lid=21416&o_it=21416&fh=0&recid=8054459&recoff=1+3 1850 Census of Kenosha, Wisconsin], transcribed [[OrsonHeadC1850|here]]
*[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=1860usfedcenancestry%2c&rank=0&=%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c&gsfn=&gsln=head&sx=&gs1co=2%2cUnited+States+&gs1pl=52%2cWisconsin&year=&yearend=&sbo=0&srchb=r&prox=1&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&fh=30&recid=27051014&recoff=3 1860 Census of Kenosha, Wisconsin]

===Further reading===
The [http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=agbi%2c&rank=0&gsfn=orson&gsln=head&sx=&gs1co=1%2cAll+Countries&gs1pl=1%2c+&year=&yearend=&sbo=0&srchb=r&prox=1&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&o_iid=21416&o_lid=21416&o_it=21416&fh=0&recid=3215714&recoff=1+2 AGBI] states that "Orson Head" is mentioned in Volume: 76 Page Number: 398 Reference: Livermore fam. Of America. By Walt. Eliot Thwing. Boston, 1902. (479p.):104, 184

==Mary unknown==
===Primary sources===
*[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=1850usfedcenancestry%2c&rank=0&gsfn=orson&gsln=head&sx=&gs1co=1%2cAll+Countries&gs1pl=1%2c+&year=&yearend=&sbo=0&srchb=r&prox=1&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&o_iid=21416&o_lid=21416&o_it=21416&fh=0&recid=8054459&recoff=1+3 1850 Census of Kenosha, Wisconsin], transcribed [[OrsonHeadC1850|here]]

*[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=1860usfedcenancestry%2c&rank=0&=%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c&gsfn=&gsln=head&sx=&gs1co=2%2cUnited+States+&gs1pl=52%2cWisconsin&year=&yearend=&sbo=0&srchb=r&prox=1&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&fh=30&recid=27051014&recoff=3 1860 Census of Kenosha, Wisconsin]

*[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&rank=0&gsfn=mary&gsln=welles&sx=y&f5=&f4=&f7=&f42=&f15=&f8=&f21=Wisconsin&rg_81004011__date=1850&rs_81004011__date=5&_8000C002=&f28=&_80008002=&f16=&_80018002=&f6=&f11=&f10=&f22=&f43=&gskw=&prox=1&db=1880usfedcen&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&fh=7&recid=33255645&recoff=1+2+21+22+23 1880 Census of Kenosha, Wisconsin]

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