Ancestry of
Marilyn Monroe

Actress, Model, and Singer

Abiel Sherman

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Marilyn Monroe — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 662 
  • Father:
  • Samson Sherman 
  • Mother:
  • Isabel Tripp   
  • Birth Date:
  • 16 Oct 1684 
  • Birth Location:
  • Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island 
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  • Death Date:
  • ABT 1746 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Dorcas Gardiner
  • Marriage Date:
  • 20 Nov 1712 
  • Marriage Location:
  • North Kingston, Washington, Rhode Island 
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  Experience Sherman (Ahnentafel No:331 )

• Sources for Abiel Sherman

  • ¹ Rhode Island: Vital Records, 1636-1850, p. 19525, Marriage record for Abial Sherman and Dorcas Gardiner.
  • ² Rhode Island: Vital Records, 1636-1850, Vol. 1, p. 22, Birth record for Abiel Sherman.
  • ³ 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).
  • ⁴ 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), 6, 18.