Ancestry of
Marilyn Monroe

Actress, Model, and Singer

Thomas Tillinghast

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Marilyn Monroe — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 94 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Tillinghast 
  • Mother:
  • Lydia Simmons   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1731 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Newport, Newport Co., Rhode Island  
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  • Death Date:
  • 12 Oct 1793 
  • Death Location:
  • Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Carter
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  • Child:

  Olivia Tillinghast (Ahnentafel No:47 )

• Additional marriages for Thomas Tillinghast

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  • Spouse:
  • Abigail Hunt
  • Marriage Date:
  • 25 Feb 1753
  • Marriage Location:
  • Newport, Newport Co., Rhode Island

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  • Spouse:
  • Polly Parsons
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1763

• Sources for Thomas Tillinghast

  • 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 Tillinghast, Wayne G., The Tillinghasts in America: The First Four Generations, Greenville, Rhode Island: Rhode Island Genealogical Society (2006), 149, 514-517.
  • 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), 251.