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Mary Marechal

Belgian tennis player

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 26, 2025
Entity authorityQ28033759 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mary Marechal was a female Belgian tennis player who has represented Belgium in the Federation Cup in 1963, and also played in Wimbledon.

She also represented Belgium in hockey in the 1960 World Cup. She is wife to Christopher Penn, mother to 4 (Erica, Sophie, Bella and Victoria) and grandmother to 12 (Benjamin, Oliver, Rebecca, Natalie, Sally, Patrick, Emily, Thomas, Elizabeth, William, Samuel and Phoebe).

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Mary Marechal” as belgian tennis player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Mary, Marechal and Belgian.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1963, 1960—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1963. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Mary, Marechal and Belgian providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Mary Marechal”, the useful work is to connect “belgian tennis player” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 26, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q28033759. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1963 and 1960.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mary Marechal” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.