Fiske Name Study
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About the Project
The Fiske Name Study project serves as a collaborative platform to collect information on the Fiske name. The hope is that other researchers like you will join the study to help make it a valuable reference point for other genealogists who are researching or have an interest in the Fiske name.
As a One Name Study, this project is not limited to persons who are related biologically. Individual studies can be used to branch out the research into specific methods and areas of interest, such as geographically (England Fiskes), by time period (18th Century Fiskes), or by topic (Fiske DNA, Fiske Occupations, Fiske Statistics). These studies may also include a number of family branches which have no immediate link with each other. Some researchers may even be motivated to go beyond the profile identification and research stage to compile fully sourced, single-family histories of some of the families they discover through this name study project.
Also see the related surnames and surname variants.
How to Join
To join the Fiske Name Study, first start out by browsing our current research pages to see if there is a specific study ongoing that fits your interests. If so, feel free to add your name to the Membership list below, post an introduction comment on the specific team page, and then dive right in!
If a research page does not yet exist for your particular area of interest, please contact the Name Study Coordinator: Tim Perry for assistance.
Once you are ready to go, you can also show your project affiliation with the ONS Member Sticker:
Research Pages
Here are some of the current research pages included in the study. I'll be working on them, and could use your help!
Membership
Related Surnames and Surname Variants
Early UK Fiske Genealogy
- This Name Study was begun primarily to resolve the confusion surrounding early UK Fiske genealogy. As the Name Study grows, that aspect may become a subproject, but for now it is the entire focus of the Fiske Name Study.
Tasks
- Here are some of the tasks that I think need to be done. I'll be working on them, and could use your help.
- Compile a list of all known Fiske family members, say pre-1600 (see Category:England, 16th Century, Fiske Name Study and Category: Pre-1500, Fiske Name Study)
- Put them all into order, date, relationship, location, spouses.
- Seek out any documentary evidence to support the above.
Research Notes
- See this G2G question about early UK Fiskes.
- The earliest mention I can find was when land at Dennington, Suffolk, UK. was granted back in the 1200s.
- From Burke's Peerage: Grant of Armorial Bearings in 1633 to Nicholas Fiske. When granting said Arms to Nicholas Fiske in 1633, the heralds recognised that these arms were adopted by the family since the days of Daniel Fiske. The grant was not just for one individual, but for the family in perpetuity, this is an important point.
Members
- Tim Perry, leader
- Liz Shifflett, admin support
Memories: 4
Ancestors of the Fiske family were in the Viking army, serving under Olaf Tryggvason, who fought the Battle of Maldon, Essex on 10 August 0991, defeating Earl Byrthnoth. Resulting in the first recorded payment of Danegeld, which included lands. The use of surnames was not common then, but the family thrived at Laxfield, Suffolk for about 200 years. Laxfield comes from the old name Lax, meaning Salmon, and possibly the source of the surname Fiske (Fish). That takes us to the 1200s and Studhaugh Manor.
Thomas married Ann, she died in 1525, They had William, (Fiske-850), who wed Margaret Ball, (Ball-6194), Thomas, 1506 - 1559, Henry, 1507 - 1599, and a daughter Agnes.
I am aware that Myrtle Stevens Hyde writes in "A re-examination of the Fiske family...........". She states that, "There is absolutely no evidence he was the son of Daniel ....." Conversely, there is no evidence to the contrary, either. I am no gambling man, but looking at the circumstantial evidence;- Laxfield was a very small hamlet with a small population. The statistical chances of two unconnected families in the same small hamlet having the same name must be very minimal indeed. The fact that successive generations were born at Stadhaugh Manor, gives further weight to the argument.
It is possible that there was a generation between Daniel, 1208, and Hugh, 1250. I did find mention of Daniel's wife Adwin, and their son Gregory, or Gerard, depending upon which source. Hugh may have been a younger son, born after the document was written, or he could be son of Gregory/Gerard.
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Cheers, Liz
https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Source:Davy,_David_Elisha._Suffolk_Collections
The genealogist magazine has published an index of families (see link above). I see that this includes two Fiske entries:
Fiske of Laxfield and Rattlesden Fiske of Shimpling
https://archive.org/stream/genealogist06selb#page/n133/mode/2up
Have you consulted this work?