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Richard Fiske

b. 1493 · Laxfield, England
Born 1493, Laxfield, Suffolk, England
Children include Robert, William

Richard Fiske lived at the Broadgates in Laxfield, a parish in north-east Suffolk where Fiskes are found from the early 1200s. He heads the Fiske pedigree written down in the 1600s by Matthias Candler, born in 1604, himself a great-grandson of the Fiskes. Candler says Richard had eleven sons. Eight of them have been identified from wills and tax lists: John of Tittleshall, George, Nicholas, Geoffrey, Robert, Jeremy, William and Richard. He was probably born about 1493. His wife's name is not known. G. Andrews Moriarty, who studied the family's English records in the 1930s, thought him probably a son of the Simon Fiske of Laxfield whose will was made in 1464, through an intermediate Geoffrey, but this is not proved.

Laxfield was a place of strong reforming religion. John Noyes, a Laxfield shoemaker, was burned there for heresy in 1557 under Queen Mary. Candler's manuscript says that Richard's son Nicholas is mentioned by John Foxe in his account of Noyes. It says that his sons Robert and William "fled for religion" in Mary's reign. Two of his grandchildren, John Fiske and Anne Lawter, married each other; their children went to New England in 1637.

Sources

The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley and Emma Arabella Bosworth, archive.org ancestryoflorenz00jaco, p. 114.
Descendants of Thomas Farr of Harpswell, Maine (1959), archive.org descendantsoftho00sumn, p. 137.
G. Andrews Moriarty, "The Fiske Family," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 86-88 (1932-1934), as abstracted in Nora E. Snow, The Snow-Estes Ancestry (1939), archive.org snowestesancestr01snow_0, pp. 348-353, and The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley and Emma Arabella Bosworth, archive.org ancestryoflorenz00jaco, p. 114. Descendants of Thomas Farr of Harpswell, Maine (1959), archive.org descendantsoftho00sumn, p. 137.

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