Marie Smith, {Fictional - Fernald fraud}

Caution: profile is a known fraud.

The following passage shows the judgment of noted genealogist Walter Goodwin Davis:

Perhaps you should be warned to relax at this point for startling events impend. To Francis and Maria Fernel were born four children whose marriages were spectacular in the extreme. Their daughter Maria married Capt. John Smith, the famous voyager and raconteur. Their son Peter became the father of Peter Fanuel, the Boston merchant for whom the great town market was named. A second son, Dr. Jean Furnius Fernel, our ancestor in the 152nd generation, married Annietta de Coligny, daughter of Gaspard de Coligny, Admiral of France and firm Huguenot, who, like Marcus Agrippa Lucius Furnius, made an otherwise unrecorded voyage to America. It is, however, for the second daughter, Anne Fernel, that the most astounding distinction is reserved. Having been adopted by 'Mr. Hathaway' in England, this child eventually married one Samuel Washington who wrote rather successful plays under the pen-name William Shakespeare!

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References

1. Cutter, William Richard. American Biography: A New Cyclopedia - Volume 7. American historical society, 1920. Page 329-320. < GoogleBooks >;
2. Fernald, Charles Augustus. Universal International Genealogy and of the Ancient Fernald Families. (1909). Page 213. < Archive.Org >. Described as “bizarre genealogy.”
3. “Caution: ancestry is a known fraud.” The following passage shows the judgment of noted genealogist Walter Goodwin Davis (1966) … (quoted in profile for Dr. Jean Fernald, {Fictional - Fernald fraud}).