Category: John Warburton Womack Ancestry - Fraud
Categories: Frauds and Fabrications
In 1889 John Warburton Womack provided a biography claiming descent from two bishops of the Church of England through Edward Womack, a fictitious son of Lawrence Womack (1612-1685 O.S.), a Rector in the Church of England and in 1683 consecrated Bishop of the Church in Wales Diocese of St Davids; died in office 12 March 1686 (Old Style 1685). This biography was disproven in the early 1900s but continues to be used by Womack family historians to this day.
- Fraudulent biography of John Warburton Womack published 1889: (Hathi Trust) American Ancestry: Giving the Name and Descent, in the Male Line, of Americans Whose Ancestors Settled in the United States Previous to the Declaration of Independence, A.D. 1776, Volume IV, John Munsell's Sons, Publisher, 1889, Albany, NY. Vol IV, p.71, sketch of John Warburton Womack and son-in-law General Marcus Joseph Wright. (1889) - p.71 (following ancestry of Marcus Joseph Wright, husband of John's daughter Pauline)
- The Womack Family of Georgia and Alabama. by Mrs. Jennie S. Perkins. The Gulf States Historical Magazine, Volume II, No. 1. July, 1903. Whole No. 7. Includes some of the fraudulent material mixed with accurate family information. The author was a friend of John Warburton Womack's son-in-law General Marcus Joseph Wright.
- See John Warburton Womack Ancestry - Fraud for an examination of the intermingling of fraudulent and real persons included in this ancestry.
This category is a location to identify the profiles of people whose biographies or family histories have been affected by the fraudulent John Warburton Womack Ancestry. "Affected" is the operative word -- listing in this category does NOT mean that the profile itself is fraudulent; hopefully it is listed because the [fraud or fabrication] has been identified and corrected.
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