John Amos Amos (Commenus) Komnenos (abt. 1500)

Descendants

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Warning: Homonyms

This profile is for John Amos Commenus, a fictive ancestor of the Fernald family. Dates given for his descendants suggest he would have been born around 1500-1510.

This person must NOT be confused with John Amos Comenius, who really existed but was much younger, being born in 1592.

Research notes

John Amos Commenus is introduced in the bizarre genealogy of the Fernald family, Universal International Genealogy and of the Ancient Fernald Families, by Charles Augustus Fernald, published in 1909, as the father of Maria Commenius, who would marry Francis Junius Fernald, and become the ancestress of the Fernald family.

The book alleges that John Amos's father "Phil" was an ancestor of "Louis Marie Cormenin the writer of the Public and Private History of the Popes of Rome, descendants of the Comneni families".

This John Amos Commenus appears to be a fabrication and probably did not exist at all.

Sources

• Family Search discussion of CA Fernald
• Sally & Allen Fernald, "Subject: Re: [FERNALD Charles Augustus Fernald's book]," Fernald Rootsweb List, 01 Apr 2005
• Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Joseph Waterhouse (Portland, Maine, 1949), pp. 35-37, reprinted in Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis, ed. Gary Boyd Roberts, 3 vols. (Baltimore, 1996), 1:535-37, where attention is drawn to the passage in the editor’s introduction, at p. xviii.