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Tennessee Williams

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Tennessee Williams

Author of A Streetcar Named Desire


    Joshua Coggeshall

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    • 7th Great-grandfather of Tennessee Williams — 10th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 780 
    • Birth Date:
    • ABT 1632 
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    • Death Date:
    • 1 May 1688 
    • Death Location:
    • Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island 
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    • Marriage Date:
    • 22 Dec 1652 
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    • Joshua Coggeshall

      John Coggeshall (Ahnentafel No:390 )

      Humility Coggeshall

  • Additional marriages for Joshua Coggeshall


    • Spouse:
    • Rebecca Russell
    • Marriage Date:
    • 21 Jun 1677
    • Marriage Location:
    • Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island

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  • Sources for Joshua Coggeshall

    • 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 Coggeshall, Charles Pierce and Thellwell Russell Coggeshall, The Coggeshalls in America: Genealogy of the Descendants of John Coggeshall of Newport with a Brief Notice . . ., Boston, Massachusetts: C. E. Goodspeed and Company (1930), 11, 14-16.
    • 4 Greene, Frank L., Descendants of Joseph Greene, of Westerly, R. I.: Also Other Branches of the Greenes of Quidnesset . . ., Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers (1894), FHL #929.273/G83g, 11.
    • 6 Sinnott, Mary Elizabeth, Annals of the Sinnott, Rogers, Coffin, Corlies, Reeves, Bodine and Allied Families, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company (1905), 226.
    • 7 Thurston, Charles Myrick, Genealogy of Charles Myrick Thurston and of his Wife Rachel Hall Pitman, New York: John F. Trow and Co. (1865), 50, 52.
    • 9 Wilson, Lelia Morse, Ten Generations from William and Mary Dyer, Pioneer Settlers in Newport, Rhode Island, Putnam, Connecticut: Case, Lockwood and Brainard (1949), 53.