Individual Details
John Fiske
(Abt 1574 - Bef 17 May 1633)
John Fiske was the son of William Fyske/Fiske and Anna Anstye/Austye. He is the 4x great grandson of Lord Symond Ffyske and Lady Susannah Smyth Ffyske Born in St. James, South Elmham, Suffolk, England circa 1580. He married his second cousin Anne Lawter/Lantersee, daughter of Robert Lawter/Lantersee and Mary Fyske/Fiske. John died in 1633 at St. James, South Elmham, England.
After John died, Anne Lawter accompanied her four adult children on the voyage to New England. However, she died on the voyage.
The following was written of John Fiske and his brothers:
“…There were six brothers and three were Papists and three were Protestants. Their ancestors, parents, and grandparents, and great-grandparents, as far as history gives an account, are said to have been eminently pious and religious people. Those of Protestant religion were greavously persecuted. One of them, to avoid being burned at the stake, was hid many months in a wood-pile, and afterward half a year in a cellar where he worked by candle light at manufactures and remained undiscovered. But his many hardships shortened his life. In 1637 four of his children, two sons and two daughters, in consequence of the persecuting spirit of that day, left their home and came over to New England and took up their abode in Salem…Their mother died before they arrived in New England. They came well provided with servants and all sorts of tools for husbandry and carpentry, and with provisions for their support for three years, out of which they helped others, whom they found in want and distress….” - Frederick Clifton Pierce, Fiske and Fiske Family, Page 34
After John died, Anne Lawter accompanied her four adult children on the voyage to New England. However, she died on the voyage.
The following was written of John Fiske and his brothers:
“…There were six brothers and three were Papists and three were Protestants. Their ancestors, parents, and grandparents, and great-grandparents, as far as history gives an account, are said to have been eminently pious and religious people. Those of Protestant religion were greavously persecuted. One of them, to avoid being burned at the stake, was hid many months in a wood-pile, and afterward half a year in a cellar where he worked by candle light at manufactures and remained undiscovered. But his many hardships shortened his life. In 1637 four of his children, two sons and two daughters, in consequence of the persecuting spirit of that day, left their home and came over to New England and took up their abode in Salem…Their mother died before they arrived in New England. They came well provided with servants and all sorts of tools for husbandry and carpentry, and with provisions for their support for three years, out of which they helped others, whom they found in want and distress….” - Frederick Clifton Pierce, Fiske and Fiske Family, Page 34
Events
| Birth | Abt 1574 | St James, South Elham, Suffolk, England | |||
| Marriage | 1601 | St James, South Elham, Suffolk, England - Anne Lantersee Lawter | |||
| Death | Bef 17 May 1633 | St James, South Elham, Suffolk, England |
Families
| Spouse | Anne Lantersee Lawter (1582 - 1637) |
| Child | Anne Fiske ( - ) |
| Child | Martha Fiske ( - ) |
| Child | Nathan Fiske ( - ) |
| Child | John Fiske (1601 - 1676) |
| Child | William Fiske (1618 - 1654) |