Fyshe
English: from Middle English fische, fyshe, fishe, fish, a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman or fish seller.
The
Parish of Great Bowden is located in Leicester, the main village is Market Harborough.Inside on the north wall of the chancel of the parish church in the village of Great Bowden is the Fish tablet, erected to the memory of Henrietta, wife of Augustine Fish, Gentleman, and daughter of Sir Edward Farmer of Middlesex, Knight, who died in 1703. Upon this tablet are engraved the Arms of the Fish and Farmer families.
As a rule in the old Catholic days, the members of the Fish Family were loyal and faithful supporters of the Roman Catholic church, and some of them entered the priesthood or became members of the religious houses. After the establishment of the English church on the protestant basis by Henry VIII they easily adjusted themselves to the new conditions. The parish records contain more than six generations of the family coming on down to the latter half of the 19th century. The last of the Fish name died in 1888. There are also many Fish records in neighboring parishes.
Will of John Fyshe
Filed 1622
Will of John Fyshe of Bowden, Mgna, proved 1623/24 2 Jan.: I John Fysh of Bowden Magna, County of Leicester, Yeoman, being sick of body do ordain and make... To William Fish, my second son and his heirs, one old cottage with two cow pastures and ten sheep, commons adjoining unto his dwelling house which I purchased of Sir Thomas Gryfin. To Francis Fish, my fith son, one cottage with a close and orchard now in the occupation of Richard Winant, laborer. To Robert Fish of Market Harborough, my son-in-law [who married Alice Fish] one piece of meadow in little Bowden field, called Stony Holme. To Thomas, eldest son of Robert and Alice, five arable lands in Lubnam brook, now in his occupation. To Elizabeth Ashton, my niece, one cottage with two cow pastures and ten sheep common, she paying yearly for the same unto John Fish my youngest son 6 shillings. 8 d. during her natural life providing that John shall have power to cut, lop, and carry away wood. To John Fish my youngest son and his heirs, three closes which I purchased of my kinsman, William Cradock of Farndon, one lying west of town betwixt the land of John Fish and Richard Kirbie, another in the middle of town next to the land of Jefferey and John Mason and one in yeast and next to the land of Francis Fish and Thomas Wells the younger, also the old cottage after the death of Elizabeth Ashton, my neice, and all my timber except one tazletre and a squared piece of myle, which I give unto my eldest son Austin (Augustine) Fish further except the mylln post, and give it unto Austin Fish my eldest son, he paying his mother 40 s., residue to Margaret my wife, whom executrix.
seal
Signed John Fysh I.F.
{Devided by a spray of roses}
Witnesses: Augustine Fish
William Hallick
