Husband Thomas ROWLANDSON
Born: Abt 1599
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Marriage: Bef 26 Sep 1648 - Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts
Wife Bridget BRADSTREET
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THOMAS, Ipswich 1637, freeman 2 May 1638, then spelled Rawlinson, as often in town records it is Rolenson, had Thomas, Joseph, and perhaps other children some, if not all, born in England. Died at Lancaster 17 Nov. 1657.
("A Genealogical Dictionary of The First Settlers of New England, Before 1692 Volume #3" by James Savage)
PROBATEof Thomas Rolenson. Letters of administration granted April 1657. Mentions widow Bridgett; sons Thomas and Joseph; sons-in-law Richard Wells and John Eaton.
My source isn't too sure about the last name of Bridget, the second wife.
Husband John WIGHT
Born: 1552 - Hareby, Lincolnshire, England
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Wife Anna BRAY
Born: 1556 - Hareby, Lincolnshire, England
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1 M Robert WIGHT
Born: 1578 - Hareby, lincolnshire Eng
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Died: 21 Jul 1603 - Hareby, Lincolnshire , England
Buried: 8 Jan 1617 - Hareby, Lincolnshire, England
Spouse: Elizabeth FULSHAW (1611-1620)
Marr: 21 Jul 1603 - Alford, lincolnshire Eng
Spouse: Bridgett WHITE ( - )
Marr: 25 Nov 1613 - Alford, Lincoln, England
Husband Edward BRECK
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Wife Mary FISKE
Born: Abt 1561
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Died: 16 Jan 1650 - Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts
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Father: Nicholas FISKE (Abt 1517-1569)
Mother: Joan CRISPE (Abt 1527- )
Other Spouse: Anthony FISHER (1558-1640) - 16 Oct 1586 - Syleham, Suffolk, England
Other Spouse: John RIGBY ( - )
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Mary Fiske's ancestors are consistently found in the neighborhood of Laxfield, Suffolk, England, from the time of the Norman conquest. May have been there since the 9th century. Name means fish. One village where they lived was given a Germanic name for salmon lake. The Fisher family is as old in the same area.
Candler, a cousin, in a contemporary genealogical manuscript, says she married ___ Fisher of Syleham
Their position ranged from simple village yeomen to sheriff, and a different line may at a late date have become lords of a small manor. .Some of the family were wealthy clothiers. Mary's immediate ancestors were wheelwrights/ artisians, very prosperous, some sent sons to university to train for the clergy, and, partly because they also had Puritan leanings, some of those became Puritan clergy. One line of the family seems to have sent most of the numerous Fiske's that went to New England. This line contained a number of people who were fanatical Puritans and were severely persecuted for their cause.
Sources are an article in NEHGS, July 1997 (possibly see below), Sandra Wamsley (cited)
http://www.fiskes.co.uk/Richards_descendants.htm - Fiske Family Papers; web site on Fiske family of Suffolk, England, which reports extensive research in the parish and probate records for Laxfield and vicinity.
A posting in the [email protected] mailing list by Todd A. Farmerie in November 2004
REF: NEHGS vol151:292 and 300 (1997) articles on the ancestors of the Fishers of Dedham MS
The identity of Mary Fiske's parents is controversial. Several works on the family have advanced different reconstructions of the wills, court documents and church records from the area.
Here is the beginning of the 1932 NEHGR article on the Fiske family. (Article continues in installments over three years.) The article summarizes the earlier sources of information on the Suffolk roots of thsi family, then develops its own very different family tree.
A series of articles in 1997 NEHGR Anthony Fisher family, the Crispe family, and another family ancestral to Mary Fiske, identifies Mary's mother and changes which wife of her father was her mother. However they present no new arguments or information on the identity of her father, instead they refer to Moriarty's 1932-34 work.
The ancient Suffolk family of Fiske adn its connection with New England have long been known, and two books ... have been published about the family.
Fiske and Fish Family, by Frederick Clifton Pierce, Chicago, at Ancestry.com, and
The Fiske Family Papers, Henry Ffiske, in the family history collection at Brigham Young University libraries.
In spite of this the pedigree of the family has remained in great confusion and presents many difficulties... The American book is, in so far as teh pages dealing with the family in Enlgand are concerned, of little value, as teh very brief summaries of the wills there given contain numerous errors and omit many important details relating to the estates of the testators ... while the conclusions of the compiler are often incorrect. The Enlgish book contains much valuable material, but it is not as carefully compiled as it should be, with the result taht the pedigrees therein are often erroneous and misleading. From early times the family was very prolific, and the records... very voluminous and therefore confusing. In the American book the progenitor of the family in the fifteenth century, one branch of whose descendants became lords of the Manor of Stodleigh in Laxfield... is styled "Lord Symon Fiske", the compiler evidently being under teh impression that the lord of a manor and his remote ancestors were peers of the realm and entitled to be called "Lords". In the sixteenth century th ancestors of the American family exercised the useful but hardly noble calling of wheelwrights...
The pedigree of the branch which sent several members to America has been preserved in teh Candler Manuscripts, the better copy of which is in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. Matthias and Philip Candler, who were descendants of this branch and lived in the middle of the seventeenth century, were excellent genealogists, and they were sufficiently near the persons of whom tehy wrote to know the facts. The pedigree of the Laxfield-New England Fiskes, as given by the Candlers, begins with a certain Richard Fiske, who was living in the Braodgates of Laxfield in the middle of the sixteenth century." (Following is a discussion of why this Richard was teh son of Simon Fiske of Laxfield who wrote a will in 1536.) The ancestors of teh New England Fiskes were ntoable for their adherence to the Reformed Religion... At the time of the settlement of New Engalnd the Fiskes were a family of exceedingly prosperous artisians and yeomen, who sent several of their sons to the unversities, whence they went forth to become Puritan ministers."
Fiske and Fisk genealogy (Peirce) identifies Mary as the daughter of William Fiske and Anna Anstye (a number of variations of that last name exist), son of Robert Fiske and Sybilla (Gould) Barber. She is now identified as the daughter of this Robert's brother Nicholas Fiske and Joane Crispe.
There seem to have been a bunch of brothers. We seem to know they were brothers but they seem to have quite a number of fathers. The brothers include Robert, who married Sibylla (Gould) Barber, both of whom were persecuted for their Puritan beliefs; whose descendants include a grandson who wrote the Candler Manuscript, John Locke, quite a number of Fiske's who went to New England, including an outstanding minister and scholar who'd been persecuted in England, some fanatics, and three members of teh jury in the Salem witch trials; William, who was persecuted for his beliefs and whose grandson was executed at Bury St. Edmonds for killing his father;, Richard, who was persecuted for his beliefs, and Nicholas, who Foxe wrote in his book of martyrs was a brother in law of a Noyes of Suffolk who was burned at the stake.
Mary Fiske who married Anthony Fisher is variously supposed to have been a granddaughter of Robert, and the daughter of Nicholas. The theory that she is the daughter of Nicholas is more current and currently the accepted version, and I'm going by the family as put together by Moriarty in the NEHGR articles.
It does seem that every version on teh Internet, some of them put together on solid research, comes to slightly different conclusions.
Husband John BRECK
Born: 4 Mar 1671
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Marriage: 9 Mar 1697 - Sherborn, Massachusetts
Wife Mehitable MORSE
Born: 2 Nov 1681 - Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachussetts
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Father: Joseph MORSE [CAPT] (1649-1717)
Mother: Mehitable WOOD (1655-1681)
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Invalid seal-to-parents temple code: L.
Husband Anthony FISHER
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Christened: 23 Apr 1591 - Syleham, Suffolk, England
Died: 18 Apr 1671 - Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts
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Father: Anthony FISHER (1558-1640)
Mother: Mary FISKE (Abt 1561-1650)
Marriage: 14 Sep 1663 - Dorchester, Massachusetts
Other Spouse: Alice ( - ) - Abt 1615 - England
Wife Isabelle BRECK (RIGBY)
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Candler said he went with his family to New England.
From Savage:
ANTHONY, Dorchester, call. sen. freem. 1645, was selectman 1646; d. 1671, in his 80th yr. Says Blake. He had m. 14 Nov. 1663, as sec. w. Isabel, w. of Edward Breck. His inv. of 12 May 1671 was ret. by s. Daniel and Nathaniel, and in July foll. they, with Cornelius, sis. Joanna, wid. of his s. Anthony and Daniel Morse, wh. m. Lydia, ano. sis., all b. in Eng., div. the est.
ANTHONY, Dedham 1637, b. at Syleham, near Eye in Co. Suff. on the border of Norf. eldest son of the preced. ar. co. 1644, freem. perhaps 1646, d. 13 Feb. 1670. In his inv. taken 7 Apr. 1670, he is call. late of Dorchester, yet perhaps he had never rem. from Dedham, bef. some recent day. He m. 7 Sept. 1647, Joanna Faxon, prob. sis. of Richard, had Mehitable, b. 27 June 1648; Josiah, 1 May 1654; Sarah, 27 Oct. 1658; and Elizabeth 18 Sept. 1669. The wid. long surv. and d. 16 Oct. 1694. It is not easy to discrimin. betw. these two Anthonies, both call. late of Dorchester, where ea. had lds. d. so near in time, or to resolve wh. was freem. in 1645, wh. in 1646.
From http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sunnyann/fisher.html by P. Davidson Peters - he has the Anthony Fisher's mixed up, and I do not know if the Fiske's are really of aristocratic descent.
Anthony Fisher was at syleham until atleast 1623. In Denton, Norfolk, about six miles from Syleham, in 1626 and 1629, the baptisms of two children of Anthony and alice were ercorded. In March, 1636, according to the will of his brother John, he was still living in Denton. anthony arrived in New England probably in 1637. First record of him in the colonies is 18 Jul 1637, when he appears on a list of those accepted by the town authorities in Dedham.
Anthony Fisher, son of Anthony and Mary Ann (Fiske), had been baptized in Syleham, county of Suffolk, England in April of 1591. In 1637 Anthony Fisher, his wife Mary (Buckingham), and their children Anthony, Cornelius, Nathaniel, Daniel, Lydia, and John came to Boston, departing most likely from Yarmouth in the ship Rose, and arrived in the last week of June. They settled in Dedham and subscribed to its covenant on July 18th of that year.
Mary Ann (Fiske) had descended from an ancient family who, until a recent period, had its seat and manorial lands in Laxfield, in the county of Suffolk, England. Lord Symond Fiske, the grandson of Daniel, was Lord of the Manor of Standhaugh, parish of Laxfield, and had lived during the reign of Henry IV and VI (1399-1422). His eldest son William had lived during the reign of Henry VI, Richard III, and Henry VII, and died about 1504. His grandson Robert had fled England with his family during the religious persecution, returned, and later married Sybil Gould who had been in great danger as had her sister Isabell Gould, who had been held in the Castle Norwich. Had Sybil's brothers not had such powerful influence in the county, it is believed by Sybil might not have escaped death.
The emigrant Anthony Fisher was said to have had a proud and haughty nature so that although his wife Mary (Buckingham) had joined the Dedham Church in March of 1642, he was not comfortably accepted until some time later. He was, however, made freeman in May of 1645 and had been chosen Selectman to act in town affairs in Dedham between the year 1646 and 1647, two years later became Deputy to the General Court, and in 1660 was County Commissioner. When he died in his 80th year on April 18th of 1671 in Dorchester it was said of him that he was "an Englishman of strong and positive character, and that for the times, he had liberal means and was considered favorable by his fellow-settlers and citizens." He and Mary's children were Anthony, Cornelius, Nathaniel, Daniel, Lydia, and John Fisher.
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She was widow of John Rigby and of Edward Breck, both of Dorchester.
Husband Stephen BRETT
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Marriage: 13 Nov 1602 - Cranbrook, Kent, England
Wife Elizabeth SHEAFE
Born: 1567 - St. Dunston's, Cranbrook, Kent, England
Christened: 19 Apr 1579 - St Dunstan, Cranbrook, Kent, England
Died: - , Kent, England
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Father: Thomas SHEAFE (1532-1604)
Mother: Mary HARMON (1536-1609)
Other Spouse: John RUCKE ( - )
Other Spouse: John RUCK ( - )
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Husband Francis Daniel FOOTE
Born: 1595 - , Colchester, Essex, England
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Father: Robert FOOTE (Abt 1553-1607)
Mother: Joan BROOKE (1559-1634)
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Other Spouse: LYDIA ( - )
Wife Lydia BREWER
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Husband John MAY
Born: 1631-1635 - , Mayfield, Sussex, England
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Died: 11 Sep 1671 - Roxbury, Suffolk, Mass
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Father: John MAY (1590-1670)
Mother: Mrs MAY (1592-1651)
Marriage: 19 Nov 1656 - Roxbury, Suffolk, Mass
Wife Sarah BREWER
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Wife Bethiah BRIDGES
Born: 1644 - Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts
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Father: Edmund BRIDGES (1612-1683)
Mother: Elizabeth ( - )
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Husband Edmund BRIDGES
Born: 4 Oct 1637 - Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts
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Father: Edmund BRIDGES (1612-1683)
Mother: Elizabeth ( - )
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