Commemorative Biographical Record of Kent County, Ontario, J.H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1904, pg. 108-109:
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, ..., 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: ...
David N. Fysh was but ten years of age when brought to Canada, and hired out to a farmer in the County of Brant, where he worked until eighteen years of age. At the age of twenty-two, he married, in October, 1846, Miss Diana Atkinson, a native of England, born Feb. 4, 1824, daughter of John and Margaret Atkinson, of Brantford. After his marriage Mr. Fysh rented a farm for five years, in the County of Brant, and in 1851 he purchased a tract of 250 acres in Howard township, which is his present home. This he has cleared, making of it two fine farms. His first house was a log cabin, in which he and his family resided until he erected his present comfortable brick residence. He has also built a pleasant home for his son on the same farm, besides erecting good barns, and his property is one of the finest in the county.
The following family has been born to David N. Fysh and his wife: John, the eldest, born in October, 1848, in Brant, died when a young man of twenty-one years...
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