Ancestry of
Marilyn Monroe

Actress, Model, and Singer

Benjamin Spooner

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Marilyn Monroe — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 90 
  • Father:
  • Wing Spooner 
  • Mother:
  • Deborah Church   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1742 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Newport, Newport Co., Rhode Island  
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Hunt
  • Marriage Date:
  • 26 Mar 1760 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Newport, Newport Co., Rhode Island 
  • Child:

  Mary Ann (Nancy) Spooner (Ahnentafel No:45 )

• Sources for Benjamin Spooner

  • ¹ 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).
  • ² Spooner, Thomas, Records of William Spooner of Plymouth, Mass., and His Descendants, Vol. 1, Cincinnati, Ohio: Press of F. W. Freeman (1883), 56, 111-112.
  • ³ Wakefield, Robert S., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 18, Part 2, 2nd Ed., Richard Warren, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2011), 289.