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Sir William Carrington, {Fictional}

Also Known As: "Sir William Vl Smith of Carrington"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Dunham Massey, Cheshire, England
Death: October 1378 (64-65)
Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
Immediate Family:

Son of Sir John Smith of Carrington, {Fictional} and Lady Sibilan Smyth, {Fictional}
Husband of Lady Catherine Montagu, {Fictional}
Father of Sir Thomas Carrington, {Fictional}; Michael Carrington, {Fictional}; Eleanor Carrington, {Fictional}; Catherine Carrington, {Fictional}; Isabel Carrington, {Fictional} and 1 other

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About Sir William Carrington, {Fictional}

This person is fictional, and part of a major genealogical hoax.

The Smyth-Carrington line is, according to J. Horace Round, a fiction. The line has been based on a work by Dr. Walter Arthur Copinger -- History and Records of the Smith-Carington Family, from 1901, which is itself full of misreadings, inaccuracies, and sheer inventions, and is furthermore based on an earlier work, The Pedigree and Exploits in Foreign Countries of John Carrington, Armiger, which, though supposedly written in 1446, was itself not only a fabrication, but a forgery, written in the 17th century. See Round, J. Horace, Peerage and Pedigree: Studies in Peerage, Law and Family History, first published in 1910, and republished in Baltimore by the Genealogical Publishing Company in 1970 -- chapter 2 is the relevant one here, The Great Carington Imposture. The work is available online at https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE2226... (March 31, 2017; Anne Brannen, curator)

NOTE: SIR KNIGHT WILLIAM CARRINGTON WAS BORN IN DUNHAM MASSEY, CHESHIRE, ENGLAND

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Sir William Carrington, {Fictional}'s Timeline

1313
1313
Dunham Massey, Cheshire, England
1335
1335
Buckingham, England (United Kingdom)
1337
1337
Rivenhall, Essex, England (United Kingdom)
1339
1339
Rivenhall, Essex, England (United Kingdom)
1341
1341
Rivenhall, Essex, England (United Kingdom)
1345
1345
Rivenhall, Essex, England (United Kingdom)
1346
1346
Rivenhall, Essex, England (United Kingdom)
1378
October 1378
Age 65
Salisbury, Wiltshire, England