Ancestry of
Rikki Bates

Musician (Member of The Incredible Casuals)

Sarah Fiske

• • 9th Great-grandmother of Rikki Bates — 12th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2221 
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  • Death Date:
  • 26 Nov 1683 
  • Death Location:
  • Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • John Fairbanks
  • Marriage Date:
  • 16 Mar 1640/1641 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
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  John Fairbanks Jr. (Ahnentafel No:1110 )

  Sarah Fairbanks

  • Notes: 

  • Sarah's maiden name is often said to be Fiske and that she is the sister of Nathan Fiske. No evidence has been found to support the connection to Nathan Fiske. Examination of her maiden name in the the Dedham vital records does support her maiden name being Fiske.

    Examinations by some researchers of the handwritten entry claim her maiden name begins with Fy, but our own examinations and comparisons with other entries on the page, especially that of Fisher and Clark a few lines below, come to the conclusion that Fiske is correct. It appears that the name may have been originally spelled with a capital S in Fiske, as was done in the name of Fisher below, but then an attempt was made to correct it to a small s with the larger S still partly visible behind it. In any case it does not appear to us to contain a Y. That conclusion uses what is obviously a small i and what was clearly at one time a capital S.

• Sources for Sarah Fiske

  • ¹ Early New England Families, 1641-1700, Vol. John Fairbanks (m. 1640), pp. 1-4.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1953, Vol. 30, p. 76.
  • ³ Fairbanks, Lorenzo Sayles, Genealogy of the Fairbanks Familly in America, 1633-1897, Boston: American Printing and Engraving Company (1897), 35-37.