Fisher Anthony b. d. 11 APR 1640

- 1640

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Died 11 Apr 1640 [1, 2]

Person ID I4773 Alan Donald Vibber

Last Modified 08 Dec 2009

Family Fiske Mary

Married Y [2]

Children

	1. Fisher Anthony, b. Abt 1591, d. 18 Apr 1671, Dorchester - Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
	2. Fisher Cornelius, b. Abt 1599, d. Abt 1641
	3. Fisher Joshua
	4. Fisher Amos
	5. Fisher Marie
	6. Fisher Martha
	7. Fisher Joshua, b. Abt 1585, d. 09 Nov 1674, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA

Family ID F1972 Group Sheet

Notes	1. Anthony1 Fisher lived in the latter part of Queen Elizabeth's reign, in the parish of Syleham, County Suffolk, England, on the south bank of the Waveney River, which separates Suffolk from Norfolk, on a freehold estate called " Wignotte." His wife was Mary, daughter of William and Anne Fiske, of St. James, South Elmsham, County Suffolk, —an old Puritan family of that county, which had sufferedduring the religious persecutions of Queen Mary's reign. The Parish Records of Syleham contain several references to Anthony Fisher and his descendants which are annexed in the language of the Records, namely :— Anno Domini 1585. Joshua Fysher et Maria Fysher, Gemini, baptisadi fuer 24th die Februarii ano super dicto. Anno Domini 1591. Antonius Fysher bapt. erat 23 Aprilis anno sup. dicto. Anno Domini 1599. Cornelius Fysher the sonne of Antho- nye Fisher was bap. the six daye of August!. Anthony Fysher was buried the eleventh day of April 164o. Anno Domini 1621. Joshua Fysher, the sonne of Joshua Fysher, was baptized on the ii daye of Aprille. Anno Dom. 1633. — Amos Fysher and Anne Lord were married September 24. Joshua Fysher and Anne Luson were married yth February Anno Dom. 1638. This Anthony Fisher, of Syleham, had four sons and two daughters, as appears from the Candler Manuscript [No. 6071, Harleian Collection, p. 384] in the British Museum, a reference to which will be found beyond. The author of that Manuscript was Matthew Candler, a prominent Puritan minister, settled at Codenham, County Suffolk, from which vicarage he was ejected for nonconformity in 1662, by Bishop Wren. Candler was a nephew of Mary Fiske, wife of Anthony Fisher, of Syleham, and consequently first cousin of Anthony Fisher, Senior, of Dorchester, and Joshua Fisher, Senior, of Medfield. Thus Mathew Candler (b. 16o4 ; d. 1663), was not only likely to be acquainted with the leading Puritan families of Suffolk, but was a cotemporary and near relation of our kinsmen who came to New England in the " Great Puritan Emigration." His statements in regard to them are therefore worthy of confidence, especially as they are corroborated in some detail by their brother Cornelius in his will dated 1638, to which reference is made. Whence it appears that in 1638 both Anthony and Mary (Fiske) Fisher, of Syleham, were alive, and also their six children, whose names are given in the Candler Manuscript. Cornelius Fisher, M. A., of East Bergholt, in his will, dated May 23, 1638, refers to members of his father's family byname, thus :— ''To my three brothers Joshua, Anthony and Amos, and my two sisters, Marie Brigge and Martha Bucingham .... My father and mother during their natural lives .... My part in one tenamemt and certain land in Sileham called Wignotte .... My wife Elizabeth .... copyhold land in East Bergholt." His will was admitted to probate in London, in December, 1641, in which year he probably died. From the Parish Records of Syleham it appears that Anthony Fisher, of Syleham, died in 1640, and we knowfrom other sources that his eldest son, Joshua, removed in that year to New England with his family. Candler states that Elizabeth, the widow of Cornelius Fisher of East Bergholt, married Rev. GeorgeSmith, of Dedham, in the same county. Of the two daughters of Anthony Fisher, Mary Brigge and Martha Buckingham, I have no further information, not having inquired in regard to them, though possibly their children may have come to New England and been identified with the Buckingham and Briggs families here. — Account of Col. Horace N. Fisher, of Brookline, Mass. ACCOUNT OF THE CANDLER MANUSCRIPT. It is the work of one of the Puritan divines of the century before the last, one of the very few ministers of that class who paid any attention to historical or genealogical inquiry. His name was Matthias Candler; born February 24, 1604; educated in the University of Cambridge ; became M. A., and in 1629 was presented to the vicarage of Codenham, in Suffolk, a place in the hundred of Bosmere, near to Needham-Market and but a few miles north of Ipswich. His father was a schoolmaster at Yoxford, and his mother a member of a large family named Fiske, some of whom had been sufferers in the persecution of the Protestants in the reign of Queen Mary, and others, his near relations, had removed themselves, in the time of the great Puritan emigration, to New England. He died in March, 1663, havingbeen for many years a most influential minister. The Manuscript is divided into two nearly equal portions. The second portion is a great curiosity. It consists of accounts of families to whom the author was himself allied, or with whom he was well acquainted, — but many of such, who, though persons of good condition, clergymen and merchants, were not of the rank of those whose descents the Heralds took cognizance, and concerning whom it is therefore easy to obtain information, but the rank immediately below them .... There were several branches of it [Fiske Family] in the southern parts of the county of Suffolk, all springing from a Richard Fiske, who lived at the Broad Gates, in Laxfield or Loxfield, the great-grandfather of Candler's mother. Fox, in his account of the burning of John Noyes, speaks of Nicholas Fiske, who was one of the sons of Richard. Two other of his sons, Robert and William, fled in the time of that terrible persecution. Sibil, the wife of Robert, was in great danger in those times, as was her sister, Isabella, originally Gold, who was confined in the Castle of Norwich, and escaped death only by the power of her brothers, who were men of great influence in the country. From Robert sprang all of the name who were in the earlyemigration. Robert Fiske had by Sibil Gold, his wife, four sons and one daughter. .... William is described by his grandson as of St. James, in South Elmham, and it is said of him, that he fled with his father. His wife was Anne, daughter of Walter Ansty, of Tibnam Long Row, in Norfolk. They had John, Nathaniel and Eleazar, Eunice, Hannah and Esther. Eunice died unmarried; Esther married John Challie of Red Hall, and Hannah, William Candler, and was the mother of our genealogist. Of the children of John, all that lived to grow up, four in number, transferred themselves to the new country. John Fiske, the father, died in 1633. His wife was Anne, daughter of Robert Lantersee. Two other of the early settlers from these parts of England were related to the Fiskes. These were Joshua and Anthony Fisher, who took their freedoms, Joshua in 1640, and Anthony in 1646. They were brothers, sons of (Anthony) Fisher of Syleham, by his wife Mary, who was probably another daughter of William and Anne Fiske of South Elmham; but this is another instance in which we regret that Candler did not draw his pedigrees with more precision. Candler does not give us any further information respecting them ; but we may form some idea of the class of society from which they sprang, from the notice which he takes of two of their brothers, who appear to have remained in England : Cornelius, who was M. A., and taught the school at East Bergholt ; and Amos, who farmed an estate called Custridge Hall, in the parish of Weeley, which is in the hundred of Tendring, between Colchester and the sea. Cornelius left no issue, and his widow remarried with George Smith, a clergyman, who was one of the ministers of Dedham, a famous seat of Puritan piety. Amos married Anne Morice, the relict of Daniel Locke, and had several children settled in those parts of Essex, of whom it is not known that any of them followed in the steps of their two uncles. — Joseph Hunter's Suffolk Emigrants ; from Colls. of Mass. Historical Society, X, Third Series, 137-173.

Sources

[S253] Who Begot Thee? Some Genealogical and Historical Notes Made in an Effort to Trace the American Progenitors of One Individual Living in America in 1903, Gilbert Oliver Bent, Gilbert Oscar Bent, (Name: Printed for private distribution, 1903;), 58 (Reliability: 3).
[S236] The Fisher Genealogy Record of the Descendants of Joshua, Anthony, and Cornelius Fisher, of Dedham, Mass., 1630-1640, Philip A Fisher, (Name: Massachusetts Pub. Co., 1898;), 1 (Reliability: 3).