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: ... Jane, born in England in 1835, now deceased, married Allen Purdy, who settled in Brantford, where she died, leaving a family of nine children...
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Henry Fysh 1822-
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