Six Degrees of William Wyman Fiske

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Six Degrees of William Wyman Fiske

Legg inn av mhollick@mac.com » 19 jan 2008 19:39:03

Six Degrees of William Wyman Fiske

I received my last issue of The American Genealogist (TAG) yesterday.
I was very interested in the lead article by Bill Fiske on the Perry
family since I am a descendant of Mary (Perry) Heath, second wife of
William Heath of Roxbury. Frustratingly, this article is the first
part of serialized article, so I'll have to wait another 3-4 months
for part two. However, Mary Perry's parents are given as Abraham
Perry and Agnes Wall. Agnes Wall is given as the daughter of John
Wall about whom Fiske has already written. You need to go "John Wall
of Bishop's Stotford" by William Wyman Fiske, New England Historical
and Genealogical Register (NEHGR) 158 (2004):361-3. But even there
you still don't get the whole picture! To get John Wall's first
wife's name you need to go to "The Wall Family of Essex" by William
Wyman Fiske TAG 80 (2005):102-115. So if you are going to a library
for the first article, make sure you get all three at once.

Fiske is doing a remarkable job with a group of immigrants who were
all inter-related. I am doubly-descended from William Denison whose
mother is Agnes Willie, the second wife of the above-mentioned John
Wall. See "Willie, Denison, and Abbott Families of Bishop's
Stortford, Co. Herts, England" by Dr. Spencer Miller, New York
Genealogical and Biographical Record 67 (1936):46-55; "New Light on
the English Ancestry of William Chandler and of his cousin Margaret
Chandler, wife of William Dennison, both of Roxbury, Massachusetts" by
Douglas Richardson, TAG 73 (1998):50-7; and "Emigrants from
Hertfordshire 1630-1640: Some Corrections and Additions" by Peter
Walne NEHGR 132 (1978):18-23.

The Heaths are explained at The Heath Connection by Douglas
Richardson, NEHGR 146 (1992):261-278 and the Crampthorne connection
(William Heath's first wife) at "The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton
1878-1908: Part I, The Ancestry of Warren Francis Kempton 1817-1879"
by Dean Crawford Smith (Boston, NEHGS, 1996). Note that the
Crampthornes are behind the Brownes of Watertown and see TAG 56 (1980):
24.


The Willie/Wylly family will be more fully discussed by Fiske in an
upcoming article but already appear in the ancestry of George Jacobs
at TAG 79:3-12, 207-17, 253-59. The Wall Family appears at TAG
80:102-16, 201-16 including James Wall's second wife Mary (Philbrick)
Tuck whose family appears at "English Origins of William and Judith
(Tue) Knopp of Watertown, Massachusetts" by Clifford L. Stott, NEHGR
147:313-328 and "Twenty-Six Great Migration Colonists to New England &
Their Origins" by John Brooks Threlfall (Madison, WI, 1993). I
descend from Mary's brother James, twice.

The Perrys are inter-related to the Sibthorpes who are related to the
Eliot clan, which Fiske has done amazing work on at NEHGR 160:181-84
(mother's English ancestry), NEHGR 161:85-91, 186-98, 250-59 (father's
ancestry).

At some point, Fiske will prove that everyone who came to Roxbury,
Mass. before 1650 was a cousin of each other.

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Re: Six Degrees of William Wyman Fiske

Legg inn av Gjest » 20 jan 2008 23:55:10

On Jan 20, 5:37 am, "mholl...@mac.com" <mholl...@mac.com> wrote:
Six Degrees of William Wyman Fiske

At some point, Fiske will prove that everyone who came to Roxbury,
Mass. before 1650 was a cousin of each other.

There are country towns in New South Wales where this proves to be the
case - although nobody now apparently remembers, trawling through the
English records prior to emigration is most instructive.

Were the Fiskes early settlers to Mass. as well, do you know? If so,
were they are branch of the Norfolk Fiskes?

MA-R

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