Ann (Fiske) Brown (1646 - 1681)

Born 15 Jan 1646 in Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Wife of John Brown Esq. — married 30 May 1677 in Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 30 May 1681 at age 35 in Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts [uncertain]

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Biography

Research Notes

Fisk / Fiske appear interchangeably, see "Fiske and Fisk family" for a full discussion.

185. vi. ANN, b. Jan. 15, 1646; m. Capt. John Brown, of Reading. She d. May 30, 1681. They res. in Reading. She had one child, Ann, b. in 1678. After his wife's death Capt. Brown m. the widow of Rev. Joseph Emerson, of Mendon, South Reading, Mass., Burial Inscription. — "Here lyes the body of Anna Fiske, first wife of Capt. John Brown, Esquire, who dyed May 30, 1681, in her 36th year." Note. — She was the daughter of Rev. John Fiske, the first minister of Wenham and of Chelmsford. She was the great-great-grandmother of Rev. Reuben Emerson, and great-great-great-grandmother of Rev. Alfred Emerson, at one time the Associate Pastors of the 1st Parish in South Reading.

His will is dated June 18, 1674, and was proved Feb. 22, 1676. It occupies twelve pages in the probate records. ^[1]

Anne Fisk was born on 15 Jan 1646 in Malford, Worcester, England. She was the daughter of Reverend John Fiske and Anne Gipps.

John married 2d 30 May 1677 to Anne Fisk. ^[2]

She died on 30 May 1682 at age 36y. She is buried in Old Burying Ground in Wakefield, Massachusetts. ^[3]

Anna was born in 1645. She passed away in 1681.

Sources

1. ↑ p. 56 Fiske and Fisk family : being the record of the descendants of Symond Fiske, lord of the manor of Stadhaugh, Suffolk County, England, from the time of Henry IV to date, including all the American members of the family (1896) https://archive.org/details/fiskefiskfamilyb00pier
2. ↑ Torry, Clarence A. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004.
3. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (http://findagrave.com : accessed 23 July 2016), memorial page for Anna Fiske Brown (1645–1681), Find A Grave Memorial no. 21,229,368, citing Old Burying Ground in Wakefield, Massachusetts; the accompanying photographs by The Guardian are materially informative, but do not provide a legible image of the inscribed data: Inscription: Here lyes the body of Anna Fiske, first wife of Captian John Brown, Esquire, who dyed May 30, 1681, in her 36th year.

• Eaton, Lilley. Inscriptions, From The Most Ancient Burial Ground, In South Reading, MS., The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, 1853) Vol. 7, Page 25
• Annah Fiske, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001