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Alice (Unknown) Fisher (abt. 1595 - 1663)

Alice Fisher formerly [surname unknown]
Born about in Englandmap
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of — married before 1616 in Englandmap
Descendants descendants
Mother of , , , , , and
Died at about age 68 in Dedham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colonymap
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Alice (Unknown) Fisher migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).
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Alice and Anthony Fisher are not fully profiled in Great Migration, but he is mentioned as "ANTHONY FISHER {1637, Dedham} [NEHGR 151:182-83]" under the profile of Samuel Morse (whose son married their daughter).

The NEHGR article referenced by Anderson names Anthony Fisher's wife as Alice, maiden name unknown.[1]

Disputed Identity/Parentage

"Mary Buckingham" is often reported (without sources) as the wife of Anthony Fisher in place of Alice; however, there is no evidence that Anthony's wife was a Buckingham, nor named Mary, nor indeed that "Mary Buckingham" ever existed.


Biography

Alice and Anthony were married in England, where their children were born, and migrated to Boston in 1637, settling in Dedham.

"_____ Fisher the wife of Anthony Fisher was received into the church 27th 1 m, 1642 (27 March 1642).[2]

The children of Alice and Anthony were:[3]

  1. John who was baptized at Syleham, Suffolk on June 16, 1616; died at Dedham, Mass on July 15, 1637.
  2. Daniel who was baptized at Syleham on June 4, 1618; died at Dedham on October 8, 1683; m. at Dedham on November 17, 1641 to Abigail Marriott (Or Marret or Morse).
  3. Lydia was baptized at Syleham on March 4, 1620/1; died at Sherborn, Mass on January 29, 1690/1; m. about 1638 to Daniel Morse.
  4. Leah was baptized at Syleham on January 27, 1621/2, probably died young.
  5. Anthony was baptized at Syleham on August 7, 1623; died February 13, 1669/70, probably at Dorchester, although recorded at Dedham; m. at Dedham on September 7, 1647 to Joanna Faxon.
  6. Nathaniel was baptized at Denton, Norfolk, England on October 22, 1626; died at Dedham, Mass on May 23, 1676; married at Dedham on December 26, 1649 to Esther Hunting.
  7. Cornelius was baptized at Denton on August 16, 1629; died at Wrentham, Mass on January 2, 1699/1700; married (1st) at Dedham on February 22, 1652/3 to Leah Eaton (or Heaton); married (2nd) at Dedham on July 25, 1665 to Sarah Everitt.

Alice (recorded as "Ellice") Fisher died in Dedham, 12 January 1663/4.[1][2][4]


Sources

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Hyde, Myrtle Stevens and John Plummer. "The English Ancestry of New England Settlers Joshua and Anthony Fisher." The New England Historic and Genealogical Register, Vol. 151 (1997), pp. 182-3.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Hill, Don Gleason, ed. The early Records of the Town of Dedham, Massachusetts. 1636-1689; being Volume Three of the Printed Records of Town (Dedham, 1892), p. 26.
  3. ↑ The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2013.) "The English Ancestry of New England Settlers Joshua and Anthony Fisher." Myrtle Stevens Hyde and John Plummer. p. 183
  4. ↑ Dedham Town Records

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Hammond-2140 Cheryl Hammond
Hi Mona, please see the first citation, NEHGR 151:182. A footnote by the authors on that page explains how the record is transcribed and why they believe it to be Anthony Fisher's wife. I'm curious which version of Dedham Town Records you saw - the only handwritten one I've seen, on Ancestry, is most likely a later transcript. It has a funny little superscript "o" at the end of "Ellice" (and many other names) and this particular record is the second line on its page so there isn't anything "two lines up" from it. The Hill publication, also cited here, also transcribes this record as Ellice Fisher and there does seem to be a family surnamed Ellice in Dedham at the time. I'm not sure what to make of that. In the meantime, I've updated the footnotes so it is clearer that all three sources address this particular death record.
posted by Cheryl Hammond
Mona (Dickson) Jensen
On the death record cited: the death first name is almost identical in script to the record two lines up of a birth to Richard and Elizabeth, what looks like last name "Ellico". The death record has no male/female designation. Why do you think that is Alice Fisher's record?
posted by Mona (Dickson) Jensen

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