Anne Lantersee Lawter Fiske (1582-1637)
Anne Lawter Fiske is our 10th great grandmother by the following path:
RWA → Fred Pemberton Abbott → Arthur Merrill Abbott → Justin E. Abbott → Benjamin Abbott → Rebecca Chandler Abbott → Phebe Abbott Chandler → Phebe Fiske Abbott (you can see this section of the tree is a little in-bred) → John Fiske, Sr. → Samuel Fiske, Sr. → William Fiske → Anne Lantersee Lawter Fiske
Although the ancestry path given above seems confusing, it is correct. There is a certain amount of marrying of cousins going on, and Anne Lawter Fiske is another example of that. She also had a sad end dying aboard ship on the trip to New England with three of her children.
Anne was born about 1582 in Suffolk England, the daughter of Robert Lantersee Lawter and Mary Ffyske. She married her second cousin John Fiske who was the son of William Fiske and Anna Anstye/Austye. The couple had six children. Anne’s husband Robert died in 1633 in South Elham, Suffolk, England.
In 1637, Anne sailed from England accompanying her sons John and William, her daughter Anne and her husband Francis Chickering. However, Anne died during the trip and was buried at sea.
Historical Note: Anne is a descendant of Lord Symond Ffyske and Lady Susannah Smyth Fiske of the Manor of Stadhaugh in Laxfield, Suffolk, England. The Fiske family is an old English family and the name derives from the Norse name Fiskr. The legend is that the Fiskrs arrived with the invading forces of Olaf Tryggvason, King of Norway at the Battle of Maldon on the Blackwater River in Essex in 991 A.D. We are perhaps directly descended from Daniel Fisc who received a land grant in a document issued by King John in 1208. (Information taken from Burke’s Peerage)
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