Robert Fiske
Robert Fiske was a son of Richard Fiske of the Broadgates in Laxfield, Suffolk, and was born about 1521. He was a wheelwright. He was probably the Robert Fyske taxed at Laxfield in the subsidies of 1542 to 1546. In April 1545 his goods were valued at thirteen pounds, and a "benevolence," a forced gift to the king, of thirteen shillings was taken from him.
By 1554 he was living at Fressingfield, where his sons Richard and Eleazer were baptized in 1554 and 1556. Soon afterward he moved to St James, one of the small parishes of South Elmham. The family manuscript says he "fled for religion in Q. Maries dayes," when Protestants were being burned. In the subsidy of 1567-1568 he was taxed at St James on lands worth one pound a year.
His first wife, the mother of his children, was Sibilla, born Gold, the widow of a man named Barbor. The Golds were Protestants of standing. Sibilla herself "was in great danger in Q. Maries time," and her sister Isabella was imprisoned in Norwich castle for her religion. His second wife, Joan, was buried at St James on 3 August 1587.
He made his will on 10 April 1590, "trusting and stedfastlie beleiving to be saved by the death and precious bloudshedding of our lord and saviour Jesus Christ." He divided his land among his sons and remembered the poor. He lived some years longer. The will was proved at Metfield on 28 July 1602.
His eldest son William was the grandfather of the John Fiske who took his family to New England in 1637. His son Geoffrey's line went to Watertown, Massachusetts.
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