Jacqueline Lee Bouvier was born on July 28, 1929 in Southampton, New York, to Wall Street stockbroker John Vernou "Black Jack" Bouvier III and socialite Janet Norton Lee. Her mother was of Irish descent and her father had French, Scottish, and English ancestry. She was raised as a Roman Catholic. She had a sister, Caroline Lee, who was born four years later on March 3, 1933.