Ancestry of
Tennessee Williams

Author of A Streetcar Named Desire

Joan West

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• • 7th Great-grandmother of Tennessee Williams — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 781 
  • Father:
  • Matthew West 
  • Mother:
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1633 
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  • Death Date:
  • 24 Apr 1676 
  • Death Location:
  • Providence, Providence Co., Rhode Island 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Friend's Churchyard, Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Joshua Coggeshall
  • Marriage Date:
  • 22 Dec 1652 
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  Joshua Coggeshall

  John Coggeshall (Ahnentafel No:390 )

  Humility Coggeshall

• Sources for Joan West

  • ¹ Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries Database Index, p. 87917, Cemetery record for Joan Coggeshall.
  • ² Rhode Island: Vital Records, 1636-1850, p. 30907, Death record for Joan Coggeshall.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 407.
  • ⁴ 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).
  • ⁵ 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), 15-16.
  • ⁶ 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.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 178.
  • ⁸ Sinnott, Mary Elizabeth, Annals of the Sinnott, Rogers, Coffin, Corlies, Reeves, Bodine and Allied Families, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company (1905), 226.
  • ⁹ 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.
  • ¹⁰ Wilson, Lelia Morse, Ten Generations from William and Mary Dyer, Pioneer Settlers in Newport, Rhode Island, Putnam, Connecticut: Case, Lockwood and Brainard (1949), 53.