Frederick Gilman (Forsaith) Forsyth (1855 - 1925)

Born 18 Jul 1855 in Portland, Cumberland, Maine, United States

Ancestors

Died 2 Nov 1925 at age 70 in Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada

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Frédéric Forsyth de Fronsac (Forsaith) Forsyth is Notable.

Biography

"The registers of Maine confirm his birth in Portland, but also reveal that his real name was Frederick Gilman Forsaith and that he was born on July 18, 1855." His parents were Frederick Forsaith and Harriet (Henrietta Marie Jewett ^{[1] [2]}

Founder of The Aryan Order of America and the College of Arms of Canada (1880-1937).

Falsely self-styled as the Viscount de Fronsac. Author of widely distributed, fabricated lineage, using assumed alias: "Frédéric Forsyth de Fronsac", and often published as "F.G. Forsyth", or "Forsyth de Fronsac" (his common, appropriated, alias name).

Yves Drolet, University of Montreal:

"Henrietta’s mother, Mary Parker Marr, belonged to a family which claimed that their forebear John Marr, who came to America in 1717, was the son of John Erskine, Earl of Mar (1675 - 1732), a descendant of the Stuart kings of Scotland who fled to France after leading the failed Jacobite 20 uprising of 1715 against the House of Hanover that had just acceded to the British throne . From 1833 onward, the family spent a for tune trying to press their claims on the Mar estates in Scotland; unsurprisingly, they ultimately lost their case which was only based on a similarity of surnames [21]. The two sons of Frederick and Henrietta, christened Frederick Gilman and Thomas Scott, thus grew up being told they had royal and Jacobite ancestry , which gave them a sense of belonging to an aristocracy. There was a strong French flavour to that ancestry, as the Stuart dynasty originated from Brittany , and the Jacobites were sheltered and supported by the Bourbon kings between the English Revolution of 1688 and the French Revolution of 1789. The Jewett family too claimed French, and more precisely Norman origin [22] . (page 9)

"From 1878 until his death in 1925, he published more than 30 books and articles in which he speaks at length about the Aryan Order and the College of Arms... Studies reveal that Forsyth de Fronsac advocated a monarchist, antidemocratic and racist-tinged ideology that underlied all his actions, both in the United States and Canada... The same blend of wild imagination and absolute disregard for consistency pervades the whole works of Forsyth de Fronsac, whether he revisits his life, the story of his family, or the history of North America....

...The meeting also took note of the publication of a book entitled Americans of Royal Descent edited by Charles Henry Browning in 1883, esteeming it worthy of praise as a first effort in this line by an American. Browning was a Pennsylvania genealogist and a member of the Aryan Order who made his living off the fashion for royal lineage among Americans who publicized their actual or imagined descent from royal or noble blood [...], relying on the notion of heredity to legitimize their claims to social superiority...' Inspired by Browning, with whom he was already collaborating in 187984, Forsyth embarked on a lifelong genealogical journey that would ultimately turn him into a descendant of Charlemagne and Odin. Already claiming descent from the noble Clan Forsyth, he started styling himself Viscount de Fronsac in the late 1880s. A testament to Forsyth’s francophilia, this spurious title was based on the phonetic consonance between the surname Forsyth and the southwestern French place name Forsath that he found in an American edition of the 14th century Chronicles of Jean Froissart...

...BROWNING, Charles Henry (1846-1926), American genealogist and publisher, b. Cincinnati OH, d. Devon PA; editor in chief of American Historical Register and publisher of Americans of Royal descent and other genealogical studies..."^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Birth: "Maine, U.S., Birth Records, 1715-1922"
   Maine State Archives; Cultural Building, 84 State House Station, Augusta, ME 04333-0084; Pre 1892 Delayed Returns; Roll Number: 38
   Ancestry Sharing Link (free access)
   Ancestry Record 1960 #1146387 ($, accessed 11 May 2022)
   Name: Frederick Gilman Forsaith [Frederick Gregory Forsyth]; Gender: Male; Birth Date: 18 Jul 1855; Birth Place: Portland, Cumberland, Maine, USA; Father: Frederick Forsaith; Mother: Harriet Forsaith.
2. ↑ The Aryan Order of America and the College of Arms of Canada 1880-1937, by Yves Drolet; Montreal, Canada; 2015, Genealogy - pg. 8
3. ↑ The Aryan Order of America and the College of Arms of Canada 1880-1937, by Yves Drolet; Montreal, Canada; 2015, pp. 8, 9, 11, 25, 45, 73. (Genealogy - pg. 8)

• Jewett, Frederic Clarke, History and Genealogy of the Jewetts of America, Volume I, The Grafton Press, New York, 1908. Pg. 430.

• "'Americans of Royal Descent', Charles Henry Browning, Ed.; Porter & Coates; Phil, PA, USA; 1883." Forsyth included among fraudulent genealogies

• "'Memorial of the family of Forsyth de Fronsac', by Frédéric Gregory Forsyth de Fronsac; S.J. Parkhill & Co.; Boston, Mass, USA; 1903." Forsyth included among fraudulent genealogies.

• Wikipedia:Nicolas Denys#Falsified genealogies
• "Publications généalogiques frauduleuses", Wikipedia, (French version)