When Winnie Fernald was born on 8 May 1876, in Lincolnville, Waldo, Maine, United States, her father, Ebenezer Hall Fernald, was 46 and her mother, Julia A. Young, was 24. She died on 13 May 1877, in her hometown, at the age of 1, and was buried in Youngtown Cemetery, Lincolnville, Waldo, Maine, United States.
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Altered form of French Fernel, itself a shortened form of a derivative of Old French ferron ‘blacksmith, ironmonger’.
History: This surname was brought to North America from England. It is listed along with its original form Fernel in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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