General Notes

Alias:<ALIA> Fyske or /Ffyske/
Some genealogists ( and the book ANCESTORS AND PROGENY OF HIRAM FISK(E)
AND DIANTHA RUSSELL FISK(E) by Martha Sheldon Hutchins) list Robert
(Simon, Simon, William, Symond) but some genealogists notably
http://www.fiske.clara.net/ffirst_ffyskes.htm) list Robert (Richard,
Jeffery, Jeffery, Symond).
Some sources list his death on 28 JULY 1600.
According to FISKE GENEALOGY ANCESTRAL AND HISTORICAL by Rev. Albert A.
Fiske (found on page 29 of Martha Sheldon Hutchin's book,ANCESTORS AND
PROGENY OF HIRAM FISK(E) AND DIANTHA RUSSELL FISK(E) and originally found
in FISKE AND FISK FAMILY by Frederick Clifton Pierce 1896): "Robert
Fiske, of Laxfield, son of Simon, and fourth in descent from Symond
Fiske, of the same, married Sibyl Gold, and had sons, William, Jeffrey,
Thomas, and Eliezer.  These parents were the progenitors of all the
Fiskes that settled in New England, so far as known, before 1640.  In
considering their posterity here, we must trace them as descended from
two distinct groups, coming over about the same time (1637), one group
settling in Wenham, and the other in Watertown, Mass.  William Fiske,
eldest son of Robert, married Ann Anstye, and had children, John,
Nathaniel (who died young), Eunice and Hannah, the last of whom married
William Candler, and was the mother of Rev. Matthias Candler, whose
manuscripts, now on file in the British Museaum, furnish the records from
which the early history of the Fiskes in England have been compiled.."
Until more information is received this genealogy will not use the
genealogy as Robert (Simon,Simon,William,Symond) as listed in ANCESTORS
AND PROGENCY OF HIRAM FISK(E) AND DIANTHA RUSSELL FISK(E) by Martha
Sheldon Hutchins. Genealogy listed will be Robert (Richard, Jeffery,
Jeffery, Symond) because of the documentation on that Internet web site
based in the United Kingdom until proven otherwise
(http://www.fiske.clara.net/ffirst_ffyskes.htm).  According to Stephen M.
Lawson at http://sml.simplenet.com/smlawson/fiske.htm: "Conflicting data
exists on the early generations, including one forged ancestry for Robert
FISKE that was published in 1896 and is still being circulated.  The
ancestry of Richard FISKE (d. 1565) is summarized here from the work of
Hugh Fiske, who has been researching, revising and expanding the 1901/2
Fiske Family Papers of Henry Fiske.  Continuing work on this project and
extensive additional details are available at Hugh Fiske's web site
(http://www.fiske.clara.net/ffirst_ffyskes.htm). Information for the line
from Richard FISKE (d. 1565) to Nathaniel FISKE, Sr. is based on the work
of G. Andrews MORIARTY as revised in Ancestral Lines Revised, compiled by
Carl Boyer III (Newhall, CA, 1981), pp. 198-200, and in Mr. Boyer's
Ancestral Lines, Third Edition (Santa Clarita, CA, 1998), pp. 252-254."