Augustine Fish/Fyshe & Henrietta Farmer
Dozens (hundreds?) of people have Augustine Fish/Fyshe and Henrietta Farmer as the parents of John Fish/Fyshe (buried 19 Feb 1622/3 in Great Bowden, Leicestershire, England).Yes, there was an Augustine Fish/Fyshe who married Henrietta Farmer and who lived in Great Bowden.The problem comes in because Augustine Fish and Henrietta (Farmer) Fish lived about 50 years after John Fish/Fyshe died, which makes it impossible for them to be his parents.And no, there are no records anywhere of an Augustine Fish/Fyshe with a wife Henrietta who lived in Leicestershire and who were old enough to be the parents of John Fish/Fyshe who died in 1622/3 in Great Bowden.
Note also that there were a lot of men named John Fish in Great Bowden, which makes it impossible to identify which John Fish was the father of Augustine Fish who married Henrietta Farmer.
(from the article by John Dean Fish, "The Fish Family of Great Bowden in Leicestershire, England," which appeared in the NYGBJ, vol. 53, pages 53-68)
BAPTISMS, GREAT BOWDEN, 1671-2
Augustine, son of John Fish 21 March
This Augustine Fish, baptized 21 March 1671-2, was apprenticed in his youth to learn the tanner's trade, which then was an important industry in that part of England. He was the head of the Great Bowden branch of the family. It was he who erected on the chancel wall of Great Bowden church the monument to his wife
which still remains in good preservation.
"To the memory of Henrietta wife of Augustine Fish, gent. daughter of sir Edward Farmer of Kensington, in the county of Middlesex, knight, who departed this life the 13th day of December in the 29th year of her age, anno Domini 1703 and left issue, Constantia, Mary, Henrietta, John and Susanna.
Sedem properamus ad unam.'