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Marilyn Monroe

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Marilyn Monroe

Actress, Model, and Singer


    Dorcas Gardiner

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    • 7th Great-grandmother of Marilyn Monroe — 10th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 663 
    • Birth Date:
    • ABT 1690 
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    • ABT 1762 
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    • Marriage Date:
    • 20 Nov 1712 
    • Marriage Location:
    • North Kingston, Washington, Rhode Island 

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  • Sources for Dorcas Gardiner

    • 1 Rhode Island: Vital Records, 1636-1850, p. 19525, Marriage record for Abial Sherman and Dorcas Gardiner.
    • 2 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).
    • 3 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.