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Title: Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity;
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Crane, Ellery Bicknell, 1836-1925, ed
Subjects: Worcester society of antiquity. (from old catalog) Worcester County (Mass.) -- Genealogy
Publisher: New York, Chicago, The Lewis publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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in Digneveton Park, madeby the Duke of Loraine to the men of Laxfield. MayI. 1208. There was the seat of the family for along period. The ancient coat of arms is: Checquey,argent and gules upon a pale, sable, three mullets,pierced, or. (I) Lord Symond Fiske, to whom the Englishand American line is traced, was the progenitor ofDr. Jeremiah Fiske, of Clinton, Massachusetts. Itis believed that he was grandson of Daniel Fiske,the first mentioned in the records of the locality;he was Lord of the manor of Stadhaugh, parish ofLaxfield. county of Suffolk, England, from 1399 to1422. He married (first) Susannah Smj-th and (sec-ond) Katberine . His will was dated December 22, 1463. and w-as probated at Norwich,. February26, 1463-4. He bequeathed his soul to God, theVirgin Mary and all the Saints in Heaven. Henamed each of his sons. William. Jeffrey. John andEdmund, and daughter, Margaret Dowsing. Hiswife Katberine, son John and Nichols Nolock werethe executors. He died February, 1464. The chil-
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y.£^-LQ^\-v^u!L^ Z^^ yiy^^ WORCESTER COUNTY 163 flren: William, married Joanrif Lymic; Jeffrey, mar-ried Margaret ■ ; John; Edmund, married Mar-gery : Margaret, married Dowsing or Dovvling. (II) William Fiske, son of Lord Symond Fiske(i), was born at Stadhaugh, county Suffolk, Eng-land, and died 1504. He married Joan Lynne, ofNorfolk. Her will was dated July 15, 1504, provedFebruary 28, 1505. It mentions her sons John,Augustine, Simon, sons wife Anne, daughtersMargery and Margaret. Sir John Fiske and her sonsJohn Fiske and son Simon were executors. The children: Thomas, married Anne ; William, married Joan ; Augustine, married Joan ; Simon, see forward; Robert, married Joan ; John, Margery, Margaret. (ill) Simon Fiske, son of William Fiske (2), was born in La.xfield. He married Elizabeth , who died at Halesworth, June, 155S. They residedat Laxfield. His will was dated July 10, 15.56, andproved July 13, 1538. He was buried in the chancelat the end of the church of All Saints, La.xfi

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