Revision History for the Ancestors and Descendants of Watson T. Fisher and Barbara A Fisher of Massachusetts
Revision History: 8/15/07 - uploaded all new stuff and corrections. There's lots:) . If we have a common ancestor email me at fisherjohnr @ yahoo.com and lets exchange info and I'll keep in touch if I find new or more stuff.
5/2/07 - I'll be updating this site once a month, usually the first week- but will no longer put updates here. Too much work:) - I'd rather be researching. if we are working on the same stuff email me and lets share.
12/8/06 - uploaded last month and a half worth of work. Worked on lots of lines and too much to document here:) Found that we are not related to Mary Dyer Quaker martyr fame but a different Mary Dyer. Watch that if you got here because of that name- lots of web sites have this wrong.
11/23/06 - added some sources for the 1700's Fish line. Also Hatch,Rowley
11/17/06 - added sources and some new names for Barrows as well as proposing a wild ars theory about who Deborah Dotey was (wife of John Barrows) in the notes for her.
11/14/06 - added bunch of info Briggs line.
11/11/06 - Finished adding info from "Our Folk" for Rainsford and spouses back to the 1400's. Also worked on Nathan Nye and added more sources info.
11/09/06 - Found sources for the Percival line and worked that back to the Rainsfords of Boston.
11/08/06 - very productive night:) Worked the Crapo line back to Penelopie White and the White line back to the Mayflower! Ding! 2nd Mayflower hit (George Soule being the other so far)
11/7/06 - found some sources for the Demaranville (and various spellings) line on Masss Vitals to 1850. Also added info and children for Peter (Perro) Crapo abt 1679
11/6/06 - added birth and death dates for Rhoda Haskell.
11/3/06 - Added proofs/docs for the entire Fish and Haskell line as well as some for the Blake line. Found a connection to Mary Dyer of "being hung by the Taliban version of Christian's fame" Puritans in the early 1600's.
10/8/06: Added a bunch of ancestors for Mary Fish 1745 from Rootsweb from Maribeth Bradley- need to find sources for it next. Also added well documented work from Rootsweb of Maitland Dirk Brower for the Tobey line.
10/4/06: Started adding sources for many of the early Fish and Fyshe.
10/1/06:Added Margaret Wascoat as wife of Josiah Haskell instead of Westcoat. Found her parents in Middleboro Vitals as well as siblings. Added Reynolds line from Wascoat back including Pease, Kitson, Gooddale, West, Killiam, Artyst from work by Kenneth Linwood Shaw, III (John Shaw's 10th Great Grandson) posted on Rootsweb.
9/30/06: Added source info for Patience Soule abd offspring from new Family Archives CD. Added Wives Sarah Brayley and Sarah Canaday for Josiah Haskell 1686.
9/29/06: Added some source info for Pierce line.
9/24/06: Added source info for Harvey Blake - found another wife for him also Hannah H. Pool plus Packard, Samson, Perkins and Fullerton. 9/23/06: Added source info for Watson Fisher 1829 and Thomas and Sarah ??? parents from SVR
Also found in MV source for Joshua Keene Briggs and his parents names. Added children for Cornelius and Elizabeth Briggs. Also found Elizabeth Briggs M.N. was Keen. Added her parents also. Added children for John Keen and Mary Clifton who turns out to be another daughter of Timothy Clifton who is already in my tree. "Hears that banjo music again counsin!"
9/19/06: Added info and children for Mary Goss and John Allman- also info for Hugh Parkhurst- all from Oneworld but we have to start someplace:) Thomas Goss Mary Tarr marriage date, Thomas Garr and Eunice Collins Marrigage date
9/5/06: Found a lot of supporting documentation for Caroline A. Parkhurst, siblings and parents back 2 generations in Mass Vitals. Also found and merged a Gedcom from rootsweb.com taking her back 5 generations but with little of no documention. I'll be working on that. Interesting to note that both Carolines father, Hugh, and grandfather, Hugh, were both fishermen out of Gloucester that were both lost at sea.