Ancestry of
Marilyn Monroe

Actress, Model, and Singer

Samuel Tompkins

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Marilyn Monroe — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 136 
  • Father:
  • Nathaniel Tompkins 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Allen   
  • Birth Date:
  • 2 May 1681 
  • Birth Location:
  • Newport, Newport Co., Rhode Island 
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  • Death Date:
  • BY 10 Apr 1760 
  • Death Location:
  • Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Coe
  • Marriage Date:
  • 24 Jan 1712 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island 
  • Children:
  
  

  Joseph Tompkins

  John Tompkins

  Elizabeth Tompkins

  Christopher Tompkins

  Abigail Tompkins

  Nathaniel Tompkins

  Gideon Tompkins

  Micah Tompkins (Ahnentafel No:68 )

  Benjamin Tompkins

  Augustine Tompkins

  Priscilla Tompkins

  William Tompkins

• Sources for Samuel Tompkins

  • ¹ Brenneman, Richard E., "Notable Kin - New England in Hollywood, Part Three: The Possible Rhode Island Ancestry of Marilyn Monroe", www.americanancestors.org/notable-kin-the-possible-rhode-island-ancestry-of-marilyn-monroe, (accessed 10/09/2014).
  • ² Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 296.
  • ³ Williams, Alicia Crane, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1999), 69, 224-226.