Ancestry of
Marilyn Monroe

Actress, Model, and Singer

Charles Adams Gifford

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• • Great-grandfather of Marilyn Monroe — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 8 
  • Father:
  • John Allen Gifford 
  • Mother:
  • Lydia F. Tompkins   
  • Birth Date:
  • 7 May 1839 
  • Birth Location:
  • New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 5 Apr 1874 
  • Death Location:
  • Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Susan Bateman Almy
  • Marriage Date:
  • 15 Feb 1866 
  • Marriage Location:
  • New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Frederick Almy Gifford (Ahnentafel No:4 )

• Sources for Charles Adams Gifford

  • ¹ Massachusetts, Marriages, 1841-1915, Marriage record for Charles A. Gifford and Susan B. Almy.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Vol. 196, p. 122, Birth record for son Frederick A. Gifford.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Taunton, Vol. 265, p. 149, Death record for Charles A. Gifford.
  • ⁴ Rhode Island Marriages, 1724-1916, Marriage record for son Frederick Almy Gifford and Lizzie Easton Tennant.
  • ⁵ 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).
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 134.
  • ⁷ 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.