Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah, p.867
FARR, ISAAC FARWELL (son of Lorin Farr and Mary Bingham Snow). Born May 23, 1860, Ogden. Married Isabel Poulter Feb. 23, 1882, Salt Lake City (daughter of Thomas A. Poulter and Hannah Butler, of London, Eng., and Ogden, Utah, pioneers 1854, Capt. Shields company). She was born July 28, 1862. Their children: Chloe B., m. Alfred H. Summerville; Norman I.; Walter T., m. Nellie Brown; Orlando died; Archie; Orlaf; Rhea. Family home Ogden. Manager Ogden flour mill 1876-83; bookkeeper; mining promoter.
Marriage found in the autograph book of Hannah Poulter written by her brother Thomas James Poulter.
REV. JOHN FFISKE B.A. - Baptised at St. James, South Elmham on 20 March, 1607, married Anne Gippes of Frenze, Norfolk in 1635, she died in Chelmsford, MA in 1671. He married secondly at Chelmsford, MA Mrs Elizabeth Hincksman, widow of Edmund. Educated at Peterhouse College, Cambridge, he graduated in 1628/9 and undertook to preach the Gospel. The pressures of the Conformity act and the persecution he received in its name however eventually forced him out of his ministry and he instead turned his attention to the study of medicine. After a rigorous examination he received a license for public practice. He joined a ship bound for New England with his wife and one or two children, 3 younger brothers and sisters and elderly mother in 1637, seeing it as a chance to quietly follow his original calling. He had to board in disguise in order to avoid the fury of his religious persecutors. His mother died soon after they set sail. Once past Lands End he undertook to give the other passengers 2 sermons each day, along with other discourses and exercises. Another passenger remarked that he did not know when the Lord's day was, he thought that every day was the Sabbath for they did nothing but pray and preach all the week long. They arrived in New England in 1637, with his only infant dying shortly after landfall. They were well stocked with servants and all manner of tools for animal husbandry and carpentry, and enough provisions to survive for 3 years in the wilderness. Much of these provisions he gave to the new country, which he found in the throes of a war against the Pequot Indians. His first employment was as a teacher in Cambridge, MA, and later in Salem, where he was particularly well renowned. He was admitted as a freeman in Nov 1637.
In 1641 he moved to Wenham, MA, where he resided for 12 years and was the first minister there, having established a church in 1644. He was also the infant town's physician, and continued as both until 1656. In that year he and many of his congregation moved to the town of Chelmsford, MA where he once again practised as both minister and physician. He died in Chelmsford in 1676 at the advanced age of seventy five. His will was dated June 18, 1674. His offspring were:
JOHN FFISKE, born and baptised at Frendshall, died in infancy.
NATHANIEL FFISKE, born in England but died as an infant shortly after arriving in America.
JOHN FFISKE, born Aug 29, baptised at Salem on Sept 2, 1638. Married Lydia Fletcher in 1666, died without issue in 1700 leaving his estate to his brother Moses of Braintree.
SARAH FFISKE, born and baptised in July 1640, married John Farwell, of Concord.
REV. MOSES FFISKE, born in Wenham on April 12, 1642, married Sarah Symmes of Charlestown and Woburn in 1692. Married secondly Mrs Ann (Shepard) Quincy, widow of Daniel Quincy of Boston and daughter of Rev. Thomas Shepard of Charlestown. He died on Aug 10, 1708.
ANNA FFISKE, born Jan 15, 1646, married Capt. John Brown of Reading, resided in Reading and had a daughter Ann, born 1678. She died on May 30, 1681.
ELEAZAR FFISKE, born and baptised in Feb 1647, died in 1649.
This Robert was a descendant of Richard *33b - RICHARD - Born c.1480, resided at Broadgates, Laxfield. It is believed that he left a will dated 1565.
Robert(67)
|
William(104)-Jeffery(105)-Thomas(106)-(108)
| | |
John(160)-Nathaniel(161)-(162-5) | (170-171a)-Phinehas(172)
| | | |
(216-221) Nathaniel(222)-(223-223a) (168)-David(169)-(169a-i) (226-8)
| |
(263-265) (224-225)
67 - ROBERT FFYSKE - Born about 1521, a wheelwright of Fressingfield, and St James', South Elmham. Married Mrs Sibilla Barbor (nee Gold), a widow. Sibilla was in great danger in the time of the religious persecution 1553-58, as was her sister Isabella Phillips, who was confined in Norwich Castle for her religion and escaped death only by the power of her brothers Paul and Peter Gold, who were men of some influence in the country. (It would appear theat the residents of the area around Laxfield were particularly vociferous in their support for the Protestant reformation; in an account by Robert's great-grandson Rev. John ffiske, his grandparents and great-grandparents are described as "eminently zealous in the true religion".) Robert fled for religion's sake in the days of Queen Mary, but was once more residing at St James in 1567-8 and later at the time of his death. His first wife having died, he married secondly to Joan ?, who was herself buried at St. James, South Elmham on 3 August, 1587. His will is dated April 10, 1590, it was proved in July 1602.
Source: http://www.fiske.dircon.co.uk/will67.htm
First marriage was to Barbor. Had brothers named Paul and Peter
RICHARD FFISKE - Baptised at Fressingfield on 16 July, 1554, died young.
JEFFERY FFISKE - Of St James, South Elmham, born about 1552. He married Mary [or Sarah] Cooke who was buried at St James in May 1614. In his will dated May 11, 1629 he styled himself Jeffery Fiske of Great Bentley, Essex, yeoman. It is possible he moved to Great Bentley in the last years of his life, to live with his daughter Martha Underwood.
or Sarah