Middlesex County Marriages, Marriage Registrations for Middlesex County, Ontario, from 1869 to 1872, Compiled by Jeff Stewart and Sherilyn Bell, Winfield Publishing, Toronto:
Andrew McConnell, 22, r Thamesville, b. Canada, widower, farmer, W[esleyan] Methodist, s/o Andrew and Barbara McConnell, married Mary Elizabeth Cornwall, 31, r. Thamesville, b. Canada, widow, Baptist, d/o Francis and Anne Fysh. Wit. Hewitt Fysh & W. J. Fysh, London. 8 May 1872 , res[idence] of Hewitt Fysh, Dundas St., Rev. Jas. Cooper, D.D., licnese. [London City]
Commemorative Biographical Record of Kent County, Ontario, J.H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1904, pg. 108-109:
David N. Fysh, a leading retired farmer of Howard Township, County of Kent, living on the 2d Concession, was born on Victoria street, London, Jan. 3, 1824. The Fyshes are of Norman descent, and can trace their line back to the time of the conquest, the ancestors having come over with William the Conqueror and fought on the Norman side at the battle of Hastings. At one time they had large estates and held the positions of old country squires. Originally the family name was Ashdown, but it was changed because they had property willed to them on the condition of their accepting the name of Fysh.
David N. Fysh is a son of Francis and Ann Fysh, both of whom were born in England, where they grew to maturity and married. Francis Fysh was a skilled workman as a carpenter and joiner. In 1833 he emigrated to Canada, via New York, on a sailing vessel and the first settlement of the family was made in Paris, County of Brant, where Francis Fysh pursued his trade of carpenter, and later purchased a farm near Brantford. There he made his home for some time, and then bought another farm seven miles east of Brantford, where he lived and died. He improved both these farms, and made them valuable properties. He died leaving a wife and five children, and his widow made her home with her son, David N., until her death, in 1865. The children of these worthy people were as follows: ... Elizabeth, born in Canada, married Wellington Cornwall, of Thamesford, where he died leaving no family; she subsequently married Andrew McConnell, moved to North Carolina for some years, then located in Nebaska, where he died, leaving two sons, Frank and Max, both of whom reside in Nebraska; both are prominent in the localities in which they reside...
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Henry Fysh 1822-
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