Ancestry of
Marilyn Monroe

Actress, Model, and Singer

Experience Sherman

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• • 6th Great-grandmother of Marilyn Monroe — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 331 
  • Father:
  • Abiel Sherman 
  • Mother:
  • Dorcas Gardiner   
  • Birth Date:
  • 1 Jun 1729 
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  • Death Date:
  • 11 Nov 1809 
  • Death Location:
  • North Kingston, Washington, Rhode Island 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Joseph Taylor
  • Marriage Date:
  • 6 Apr 1749 
  • Marriage Location:
  • South Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island 
  • Child:

  Mary Taylor (Ahnentafel No:165 )

• Sources for Experience Sherman

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A112682.
  • ² Rhode Island Marriages, 1724-1916, Marriage record for Joseph Taylor and Experience Sherman.
  • ³ Rhode Island: Vital Records, 1636-1850, p. 159438, Death record for Experience Taylor.
  • ⁴ Rhode Island: Vital Records, 1636-1850, Vol. 1, p. 116, Birth record for daughter Mary Taylor.
  • ⁵ The Congdon Chronicle, Grafton, Vermont: G. E. Congdon (1921-1935), 213.
  • ⁶ 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).
  • ⁷ Robinson, Caroline E. and Daniel Goodwin, ed., The Gardiners of Narragansett: Being a Genealogy of the Descendants of George Gardiner The Colonist, 1638, Providence: Printed by the Editor (1919), 18, 52.