William Fiske

b. 1550 · Suffolk, England

Born 1550, Suffolk, England

Father: Robert Fiske

Mother: Sibilla Gold

Children include John

He was the eldest son of Robert Fiske, a wheelwright, and Sibilla Gold, and was born about 1550, probably at Laxfield or Fressingfield in Suffolk. The family moved to St James, South Elmham, after Robert "fled for religion" in Queen Mary's reign.

He married Anna, daughter of Walter Austye of Tibenham, in Norfolk. She was the mother of his children, among them John, who was probably born about 1580. Anna was buried at St James on 13 February 1601. He married a second wife, Alice, who outlived him.

His father's will of 1590, proved in 1602, left him "my tenement called Hoves in the parish of St. James," charged with a payment to his sister Elizabeth Barnard, and in time the freehold lands as well.

He was later of Ditchingham, across the Waveney in Norfolk. He made his will on 25 November 1616, and it was proved on 17 May 1620. His son John married Anne Lawter, his own second cousin. John's children went to New England in 1637.

Parents

Sibilla Gold

Robert Fiske b. 1521

Children

John Fiske 1580-1633

Sources

The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley and Emma Arabella Bosworth, archive.org ancestryoflorenz00jaco, p. 114.

Nora E. Snow, The Snow-Estes Ancestry (1939), archive.org snowestesancestr01snow_0, p. 350.

Nora E. Snow, The Snow-Estes Ancestry (1939), archive.org snowestesancestr01snow_0, p. 351.

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.

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