Ancestry of
Marilyn Monroe

Actress, Model, and Singer

Mercy Ham

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• • 6th Great-grandmother of Marilyn Monroe — 9th Generation
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  • John Ham 
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  • Mary Heard   
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  • Richard Nason
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  Nathaniel Nason (Ahnentafel No:172 )

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  • Some sources list Mercy Ham's birthdate as 19 JUL 1708. Other sources give her mother's birthdate over 50 years earlier and her death date as 1706. So it does not seem possible that Mercy's birthdate was in 1708 unless her mother's dates are incorrect.

• Sources for Mercy Ham

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1872, Vol. 26, p. 389.
  • ² The Newport Mercury, 28 MAR 1903, p. 8.
  • ³ Batchellor, Albert Stillman, ed., Probate Records of the Province of New Hampshire, Vol. 1: 1635-1717, Concord, New Hampshire: Rumford Printing Co. (1907), 319-320, Will of father John Ham.
  • ⁴ 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).
  • ⁵ Stackpole, Everett S., Old Kittery and Her Families, Lewiston, Maine: Press of Lewiston Journal Company (1903), 626-627.