Ancestry of
Marilyn Monroe

Actress, Model, and Singer

Frederick Almy Gifford

View famous kin of Frederick Almy Gifford

• • Grandfather of Marilyn Monroe — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 4 
  • Father:
  • Charles Adams Gifford 
  • Mother:
  • Susan Bateman Almy   
  • Birth Date:
  • 12 Apr 1867 
  • Birth Location:
  • New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 4 Jul 1957 
  • Death Location:
  • Riverside County, California 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Easton Tennant
  • Marriage Date:
  • 25 Apr 1888 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Newport, Newport Co., Rhode Island 
  • Child:

  Charles Stanley Gifford (Ahnentafel No:2 )

• Sources for Frederick Almy Gifford

  • ¹ California, U.S., Death Index, 1940-1997, Death record for Frederick Almy Gifford.
  • ² Federal Census, RI, Newport County, 1900, Newport Ward 3, ED #218, Sheet 5B, Image 10 of 48.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Vol. 196, p. 122, Birth record for Frederick A. Gifford.
  • ⁴ Rhode Island Births and Christenings, 1600-1914, Birth record for son Charles Stanley Gifford.
  • ⁵ Rhode Island Marriages, 1724-1916, Marriage record for Frederick Almy Gifford and Lizzie Easton Tennant.
  • 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 Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 134.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 296-297.