Ebenezer Edward Fisk (1844-1928) and Annie Dinah Pratt (1846 – 1929)

This picture of Ebenezer Ed-

ward appears on the Trinity

Baptist Church, Bexley

Heath, website. I am hoping

the church can provide us

with a larger version.

UK Census entries for Ebenezer Edward Fisk and Annie Dinah Pratt

1881, 3, Ivy Leigh, West Derby

1891, 52, Holgate Terrace, Micklegate, York

1911, The Priory, Myers Lane, Bradford

Ebenezer Edward Fisk was born in St Albans in De-

cember 1844 to William Fisk (1807 – 1881) and

Louisa Lake (1807 – 1886).

He was the seventh of their ten children, following on

from William Fisk who was 8 when Ebenezer Edward

was born, James Fisk who was 7, Thomas Fisk who

was 5, Louisa Fisk, who was 4, Sarah Fisk who was

3 and Frances Fisk who was 1. There would then be

three more children after him, Edward, who only lived

to two, Eleanor, and finally Alban, who died when he

was nine. Although he was called Ebenezer Edward

Fisk, it seems that in later life he was generally known

as Edward rather than Ebenezer.

This is quite strange, because the intention was pre-

sumably to call him Ebenezer, as the next child to be

born after him, a year after in 1845, was called Ed-

ward, the one who died in infancy. Maybe the way

Ebenezer was called Edward had something to do

with honouring the dead brother.

He first appears in the census aged seven, in 1851,

with the family living at 5, The High Street, St Albans

and running the drapery business, his oldest brother

William, now 15, already working for his father

In 1861, he is again recorded as living with his pa-

rents, aged 16. But although most of the children

seem to have done a stint helping with the drapery

before moving on, Edward did not. Instead, he was

working as a cabinet maker.

But his family were all devout Baptists, which in the

18th century was a moderately controversial move-

ment. Although it essentially shares the same beliefs

as other branches of Protestantism, it is known as

‘non-conformist’.

One of its main digressions is the idea that a person

can only become a member of the church by being

baptised as a declaration of their belief, as opposed to

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1901, 95, Church Lane, Shipley

WEEKLY RECORD OF THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT, 1870

‘infant baptism’ whereby a child

is baptised on the basis of their

parents belief, but has no say in

the matter themselves.

Edward Ebenezer Fisk’s first ministerial position was in the tiny

Cornish hamlet of Tregoney, just outside Truro.

PRATT: ORIGIN & MEANING OF THE NAMEThe surname is first recorded in the 12th century making it one of the earliest

on record anywhere in the world. The first recorded spelling of the family name

is believed to be that of Wilfric Prat. This was dated 1179, in the "Seals Re-

gister" of the county of Suffolk, during the reign of King Henry 11 of England,

1154 -1189. While there are several theories on the origin of the name Pratt

one of the most widely accepted is that it is a derivation of the Latin Pratum

which refers to flat or level ground or a meadow. Otherwise, It may be deri-

ved from a pre 7th century word "praett" meaning a trick; and as such was

probably a nickname for a magician or conjuror.

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Bures chapel is still in use today, but not in the best of

condition. Here’s a photo taken in 2002.

It is not the most spectacular chapel you will ever see.

THE BAPTIST MAGAZINE1866

And so it was that EE Fisk was sent to The Pastors' College at

South Norwood Hill, London. This ‘theological institute of hig-

her learning’ was opened by Charles Haddon Spurgeon, one of

the most important churchmen of the era, and still exists, rena-

med Spurgeon’s College in his honour. Curiously, one of the

best books on his life, was J. C. Carlile's “C. H. Spurgeon: An

Interpretive Biography” of 1933 – JC Carlile was the Baptist mi-

nister who married Muriel Sarah Moore, EE Fisk’s niece (daugh-

ter of his sister Louisa). It was while he was still a student that

EE Fisk was mentioned in the Baptist Magazine giving a ser-

mon at Cranfield, Middlesex.

He must have been quite some student, and was obviously an

extremely devout Baptist. He was only 24 years old when he

was ordained as minister in 1868 and his first position seems to

have been the one he had in the tiny Cornish hamlet of Trego-

ney, just outside Truro. In these days, a lot of what the Baptist

was doing was about spreading the word, and what many of the people among

the Fisks and their circle did was move to small villages and towns, help over-

see the establishment of a church, often starting from very humble beginnings

on whatever premises they could find, and after a few years, when things were

up and running, move on to somewhere else and do the same. Ebenezer Ed-

ward Fisk seems to have spent his entire life doing this, moving from what po-

sition to the other. They were also seriously anti-alcohol, and there are records

of EE Fisk’s name in several Temperance movement documents.

He was married to Annie Dinah Pratt in Brighton in 1869. Annie, who would be-

come our Great Great Grandmother, would have been 23 at the time of the

wedding, and Edward one year older.

Annie was born in Birmingham in 1846, but so far I have found no records of

anything about her family or her life before she married Edward Fisk. She is a

bit of a mystery woman.

Neither do I know how it came to be that they married in Brighton. Edward

THE SWORD AND THE TROWEL;BY C.H. SPURGEON, VOLUME FIVE

was presumably still working in Cornwall around that time. However,

in 1870 he was on the move again, this time to a similarly tiny place,

Mount Bures in Suffolk.

CHRONICLE OF THE BRITISH & IRISH BAPTISTHOME MISSION, 1875

THE CHURCH - 1878

THE SWORD AND THE TROWEL; BY C.H. SPURGEON, 1885

It was only a small chapel. Ac-

cording to its website “During a

census on a Sunday in 1851,

there were attendances of 80 in

the morning and 110 in the af-

ternoon. The annual anniver-

sary celebration in 1881 with 5

visiting preachers, attracted

140 people from many parts of

Essex and Suffolk.”

Interestingly, Mount Bures is

just up the road from the little

village of Tiptree where Edwar-

d’s mother Louisa Lake was

born. The church was founded

by its original minister Charles

Cock in the 1830s. Tiptree is

only a tiny hamlet even now, so

Charles Cock would surely

have known the Lake family,

and that is probably the contact

that got Edward the minister’s

position. Also, being his mothe-

r’s home town, Edward would

have known the place well.At

the time of the 1871 census, he

was at the Fisk home in St Al-

bans, now aged 26. But he was

presumably only there on a

visit, and gives his profession

as minister at Bures Chapel.

His wife was not with him, she

was staying with his sister

Frances, who four months ear-

lier had given birth to her first

daughter, Gertrude. The fact

that Annie Dinah Pratt was visi-

ting Edward’s sister without her

own husband suggests that

they were close friends in some

way, and perhaps that has so-

mething to do with how she

ended up marrying her friend’s

brother.

Then in 1873, two years after

Edward and Annie had married, they moved to Bexley Heath, in Kent, which is where their first two children are re-

gistered as being born. These were Ethel Annie Fisk, born in 1875, and Elsie Beatrice Fisk born a year later – both

of whom would be given strict Baptist upbringings, and who would both grow up to be Baptist missionaries.

Edward Ebenezer had been offered a position as minister at Trinity Baptist Church (shown in the photo). A history of

the church found on the website verifies this – it says “1873 July - Revd Firth handed in his resignation and died a

month later. On the recommendation of C.H. Spurgeon, Revd Edward Fisk was appointed on a stipend of £120 pa,

but only held the Pastorate for two years from 1873-1875.”

The reference to CH Spurgeon is interesting. This is the man who founded the theological college that EE Fisk at-

THE SWORD & THE TROWEL(C.H. SPURGEON, 1867)

THE CHURCH, 1870

Trinity Baptist Church, Bexleyheath

Situated in Broadway at the corner

with Trinity Place, this Church

dates from 1868.

tended, and he was obviously something of a prize pupil – CH Spurgeon is one of the most

important religious figures of the 19th century, so to be recommended by him was a high

honour indeed.

It is from this church that the only known picture of Edward Fisk was obtained. I wrote to

Terry Griffith, who is the pastor at Trinity today, and in his reply he told me “I can add that

Edward Fisk removed to River Street Baptist Church, Truro, in September 1875. The cir-

cumstances behind this move seem to be related to the church mortgage of £350 being ca-

lled in and the decision of the church to try and liquidate it rather than take out a new

mortgage. Edward Fisk may have felt the financial position of the church too insecure and

this might have precipitated the move after such a short period as pastor.”

So, Edward Fisk moved back to Truro, where he had been before. However,

they can’t have stayed there very long. By 1878 they had moved north, which

is when he is first mentioned in ‘The Church’ as being at Tue Brook Chapel

in Liverpool.

That is where Edward and Annie were at the time of the 1881 census, living

at 3 Ivy Leigh, West Derby, Lancashire, along with their two daughters, Ethel

who was now 6 and Elsie, who was 5.

‘West Derby’ was an administrative region in those days. It no longer exists,

and is now part of modern day Liverpool. They also had a general servant li-

ving with them, 27 year old Ellen Gardner from Beaumaris in Wales.

Edward was described as a Baptist Minister, and the Tue Brook Chapel was

just around the corner in New Road. It was built in 1876, so he was one of

the first ministers, if not the first minister, but it no longer exists today.

It was while he was at Tue Brook that EE Fisk published a book, called “Sil-

ver Words. Golden Deeds: Practical and Personal Chapters for Professing

and Non Professing People.” The Baptist Magazine, as well as saying that it

was selling for fourpence observed that “Mb. Fisk is one of our Liverpool mi-

nisters, and was trained at the Pastors' College. These chapters have in them

something of the pith and point for which John Ploughman is so widely

noted.”

This was not his only book to be published. He has also been the author ofChurch Street, Shipley, where the Fisk family lived in 1901.

what were called “The Alphabet Booklets”. I have no idea what these

were or if there is any chance of finding a copy now, but at least the

name suggest they were for use by children in Sunday School – the

Fisks had always been keen on putting religious ideas into childre-

n’s heads, and EE Fisk’s father William, of course, ran the Sunday

School in St Albans for many years.

It was also during his stint in Liverpool that his third child and only

son, George William Fisk, our Great Grandfather, born in 1882. GW

Fisk was a good few years younger than his older sisters, but he too

would be given a strict Baptist upbringing. But although he stuck with

it, and also went abroad as a Baptist missionary, GW Fisk eventually

turned his back on religion altogether.

Edward rarely stayed in the same place more than three or four

years. In 1885, “The Sword and the trowel”, the magazine edited by

Fisk’s mentor, C.H. Spurgeon, mentioned that he was leaving Tue

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Brook and heading for Wal-

thamstow, and this is confir-

med in Kelly’s directory of

1886, where he was living at

11, East Avenue, Walthams-

tow in Essex.

This Baptism minister lark

certainly had Edward moving

around. By 1891 they had

moved again, back up north

and this time to York, and where they were in the census living at number 52

Holgate Road. He was 47 by this time, and his wife Annie, 46. There are no

details of which church he was at, but seeing as he was Baptist, it must have

been the York Baptist Church, located just inside the western city walls of the

ancient city of York, and within very close walking distance of the house the

Fisk’s lived at in Holgate Road. Ethel and Elsie were 16 and 15 by this time,

and George William Fisk was nine. There was also a servant, 21 year old

Sarah Holmes from Durham.

The Baptist Handbook for 1895 lists him as still being at the same address in

1895, although in 1893, the “Report of the Dominion fishery commission on

the fisheries of the province of Ontario, 1893” says that his address was Myrtle

Villa, Eccleshill in Bradford and also 134 Harrogate Road, Eccleshill - this sug-

gest he might have owned two houses in the same area, but there could be

any number of other reasons why he gave two addresses.

It may seem bizarre that EE Fisk should appear in a book on fisheries in Ca-

nada, but it seems that he and somebody called William Brown had shares in

them. What’s more, so did his brother William and sisters Eleanor and Sarah.

There was once a Baptist Chapel in Undercliff Road, Eccleshill, just around the

corner from all of the different addresses EE Fisk gives in the early 20th cen-

tury, and this almost certainly seems to have been the place he worked at, al-

though I have found no evidence of this. That church doesn’t exist any more,

but there is another Baptist Church, Westgate, just around the corner, in Car-

lisle Road, Manningham, which has been running since 1753, and that may

also have been EE Fisk’s place of work.

Over the next few years, the Fisk family seem to have moved house quite fre-

quently, but they always remained in the Bradford area, in Eccleshill, Shipley

and Manningham, all of which are very close to each other.

In 1901, and still a Baptist Minister, Edward Ebenezer was in Shipley, where

he was living at 95 Church Street. All three children were with him, but there

is no sign of Annie Diana Fisk in the 1901 census. I have no idea where she

was.

The oldest daughter, Ethel, was now called Ethel Beedham. She had married

Richard Beedham just two years earlier, in 1899. He was a Baptist minister

who died in the Congo in 1901, so Ethel had only recently become a widow

in 1901 and was back with her father. In 1903, Ethel, and apparently struck

with grief, she would depart for Burma to work as a missionary.

George William Fisk would be marrying in 1906 to what we believe was the

family’s servant, Florence Watson, and the marriage wouldn’t be too popular

with his parents. The Fisk family all had a history of marrying fellow members

of the Baptist community, but GW Fisk was having none of it. His chosen wife

was had been born into a poor family off Yorkshire millworkers – the lowest of

the low in the local pecking order, and anything but the kind of person EE Fisk

would have wanted to see his only son marrying. GW Fisk and his wife de-

parted for China shortly, where GW Fisk was also a missionary, although he

only stuck it out for a while. He may have gone to China to convert people to

the Baptist movement, but China ended up converting him - he’d end up ma-

naging British mining interests and taking a huge interest in Chinese culture

and beliefs.

Charles Spurgeon was the founder of the Pastor’s School that EE

Fisk attended, and also the man who reccommended Edward Ebe-

nezer for a position at Trinity Church in Bexleyheath.

According to Wikipedia he “was a British Particular Baptist preacherwho remains highly influential among Christians of different deno-minations, among whom he is still known as the "Prince of Prea-chers." This despite the fact that he was a strong figure in theReformed Baptist tradition, defending the Church in agreement withthe 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith understanding, againstliberalism and pragmatic theological tendencies even in his day.”“In his lifetime, Spurgeon preached to around 10,000,000 people ...Arguably, no other author, Christian or otherwise, has more materialin print than C.H. Spurgeon”

KELLY’S DIRECTORYWATHAMSTOW, 1886

In 1918, Edward Ebenezer Fisk was a retired baptist Minister, and living at 91

North Denes Road, Great Yarmouth.

This address is now The Ryecroft Guest House, a small, family owned and run

six-roomed bed and breakfast.

Their website says “The building itself dates back to 1898, and is located in thequieter end of Great Yarmouth. The beach, town centre, and race track are justa few minutes walk away, and the "Golden Mile" is also within easy walkingdistance. This makes the Ryecroft Guest House a great place from which to ex-plore Great Yarmouth, the Norfolk Broads, and the surrounding area, inclu-ding Lowestoft and Pleasurewood Hills in Suffolk.”

THE BAPTIST BIBLIOGRAPHY - 1961

THE BAPTIST HANDBOOK FOR 1895LIST OF BAPTIST MINISTERS IN THE BRITISH ISLES

SESSIONAL PAPERS OF THE PARLIAMENTOF THE DOMINION OF CANADA, 1905

The other daughter, Elsie, would also become a missionary,

and spent most of her life in Quetta, in what was India then

but is now Pakistan, and returned to England following the

1936 earthquake.

In 1908, the Free Church Year Book records EE Fisk in Ec-

cleshill again, which presumably refers to his Chapel, he was

living just around the corner in Shipley. In 1911, with all three

of their children now away in Asia, EE Fisk and his wife were

living at The Piory, Myers Lane in the Manningham district of

Bradford in 1911, but again this was just a few streets away

from the Chapel in the neighbouring district of Eccleshill.

By this time, the 65 year old Reverend declared himself a ‘re-

tired Baptist minister’. What happened after that is a bit hazy,

but it seems they eventually left Yorkshire and retired to Nor-

folk. In the early days of the First World War, 1915, they were

living in the coastal town of Hunstanton – we know that be-

cause their son gives that as the address of his father Ed-

ward as his proposed address in the UK on an immigration

form.

Then in 1918, in the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical

Research, there is a reference to EE Fisk’s son, who was in

China at the time, where the address in given as “Fisk, Rev.

George, c/o Rev. EE Fisk, 91 North Denes Road, Great Yar-

mouth”

Their final port of call was Fritton in Norfolk, which now forms

part of the village of Morningthorpe, and is the site of the St.

John the Baptist Chapel, which would have suited Edward

perfectly, for although he was retired, he would still have been

an active church member.

It’s a tiny place, and the two villages together had just 253

residents in 2001. The couple lived in the Cemetery Lodge.

Ebenezer Edward Fisk died at the age of 84 in 1928 in the re-

gistration district of Mutford, Suffolk. Annie Fisk (nee Pratt),

died one year later in the same place.

The other children of William Fisk and Louisa Lake

William Fisk (1835-1917)

Chipperfield

Baptist Church

They lived in this camp-looking house called The Common, just

down the road from the chapel in Kings Langley, and which at the

time of writing was on the market for £475,000.

William, the first child in the family, was born in

1836 and was eight years older than his youn-

ger brother Edward. By the age of 15 he was

working for his parents as a ‘shopman’ for

their drapery business in St Albans.

William also went on to be a Baptist minister.

As the page copied here explains, he was first

the pastor of the Baptist Church in Chippers-

field, in the parish of King’s Langley, from

1857-71

This is not particularly far away from St Al-

bans.

One website explains how “the other churchin Chipperfield at that time was also built in the1830s, which was the Baptist church. Thispart of Hertfordshire was a very strong Bap-tist area. Before the church was built, the pro-testant dissenters used to meet in privatehouses.”

A number of entries in different Baptist publi-

cations mention William Fisk of Chipperfield,

who ‘ministered zealously’.

In 1861, he was not at home for the census,

but was instead visiting the Gordon family in

Chipperfield. His profession was ‘minister of

the congregational church’..

He married in 1869 to Sarah Short, who was

born just up the road from Chippersfield in Bo-

vington in 1850. So William was 33 when he

married Sarah, who was just 19. The www.fis-

kes.co.uk website seems to think this might

have been his second marriage, but I have no

idea on what evidence this is based.

Sarah Short was the daughter of George

Short (born in Norwich in 1822, who was the

son of another George Short, born in Boving-

ton, Norwich in 1790) and his wife Maria (born

in Hemel Hempstead in 1823).

Sarah was the youngest of three sisters after

Elizabeth and Fanny, and the Short family se-

emed to have all lived in the area of the Hemel

Hempstead – Bovington – King’s Langley

triangle (which is just up the road from St Al-

bans). They had a family business as tailors

and drapers, and so probably knew the Fisks

through business – they were two small and

neighbouring market towns and so the two

draperies would have shared similar contacts.

At the time of the 1871 census, when William

and Sarah were still in their early twenties, Wi-

lliam was ‘temporarily absent’, but Sarah had

her older sister Elizabeth staying with them,

as well as her 28 year old servant Sophia

King, and her first child, nine-month old Regi-

nald.

Where was William in 1871? Well,

he was up in Mowsley in Leices-

tershire, staying in the home of an

auctioneer called Samuel Horton.

However, he states his job as still

being minister at the chapel in

Chipperfield.

But 1871 was to be his last year in

the job, and his trip to Leicseters-

hire presumably had something to

do with the pending move.

By 1881, the couple had moved to

Arnesby in Leicestershire, and pre-

sumably William was doing his pre-

aching at the Arnesby Baptist

Church. In 1881, they had another

son, 2 year old Henrie. But Regi-

nald, now 10, was not with them.

For some reason, he was down in

St Albans staying with his grand-

parents. He obviously had a close

relationship with them, because

later in life Reginald would work for

a while at the famous Fisk & Son

drapery.

Life ended early for Henrie, he only

made it to seven, when he died in

Leicestershire in 1886.

Shortly after the death of their se-

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A HISTORY OF DAGNALL STREETBAPTIST CHURCH (DEREK TURNER)

NONCONFORMITY IN HERTS BY WILLIAM URWICK 1884

BAPTIST MAGAZINE, 1859

cond son, the couple moved

again, because by 1891 they were

living in Amersham, Bucking-

hamshire.

As a local history website says

“Amersham has always been acentre of nonconformity in reli-gious matters. Its two Baptistchapels, adjacent to each otherbehind the King's Arms in theHigh Street, arose from a splitby the Particular Baptistsaround 1740.

THE BAPTIST MAGAZINE, 1866

THE GENERAL BAPTISTREPOSITORY, 1866

BAPTIST MAGAZINE, 1863

THE CHURCH, 1864

“The Upper Meeting House is now a private dwelling, but the Lower and larger onestarted in 1783 remain in use.”

Their only surviving son, Reginald, was still in St Albans, now working as an assis-

tant for his uncle James Fisk, brother of William and Edward, who was now manager

of the family’s drapery.

It seems curious that in both censuses covering his teenage years, Reginald is cited

as being in St Albans and not with his parents.

William Fisk’s time in Amersham was short because he then moved back to Hert-

fordshire, where he was minister of Rickmansworth Baptist Church from 1893 to

1898, as recorded in the list of ministers on that church’s website.

William may have achieved great things in his stint as minister of this church, but

sadly their website explains that details of the first 100 years of the church are sketchy

because almost all of the records were destroyed in the Second World War.

His address in the 1896 Baptist Handbook was given as West End Villa in Rick-

mansworth.

Just about everything we know about William Fisk is related to his ministerial duties,

but it also nice to see he did have other interests and was a member of the Hert-

fordshire Natural History Society, who published a regular magazine swapping infor-

mation on birds, butterflies or whatever else the members had spotted.

In 1898 he left his position in Rickmansworth, and I have no further record of him

working as a minister sgain, and by 1901 they had moved again by 1901 and were

living at 26 Westland Rd, Watford, which was only 2 miles away from the church he

had preached at, and was the same address he lived at in the 1906 edition of Herts

Directory and also in the 1911 census, when he was recorded as a retired baptist mi-

nister of 75 living at the same adress and still with Sarah, although she died later that

year aged 61. William remained in Watford until his death in 1917, aged 81.

Rickmansworth High

Street circa 1908

Rickmansworth Baptist Church

HERTS ADVERTISER, OCTOBER 7, 1911DEATH OF SARAH FISK

This is a newspaper report of the funeral of Sarah (Short)

Fisk in 1911 at Rickmansworth Cemetery, just a few months

after her husband had retired from being minister at the

Baptist church in the same tone, although they had actually

lived 2 miles away in Watford for the last decade.

The service was given by two men. One was the Rev Hirst

of Arnesby (which is the town where William Fisk had been

a minister in the 1880s, and the Reverend was clearly a

good friend of the family who had been invited down. It is

also likely that he was related to Ann Hirst who had married

William and Sarah’s son Reginald 3 years earlier). The other

minister was Rev CM Hardy of Saint Albans – the church

that had so many close associations to the Fisk family. Revs

Hardy and Hirst were mentioned together in the Baptist

Handbook of 1896, so were presumably close acquaintan-

ces.

The mourners include several familiar faces. The son Regi-

nald William Fisk was their with his wife Ann Alice Hirst. Mr

Hinson ran a drapers shop in Bovingdon and was the man

who married Sarah’s sister Elizabeth Short (who would die

four years later and was listed in the article as sending flo-

wers). The Misses Fisk of At Albans are Eleanor and Sarah,

as usual mentioned together. Mr W Fisk in James Fisk’s

son, a year before he became mayor.

Of the other Fisks, Isaac and Minnie are mentioned as gi-

ving flowers, as they also did for James Fisk’s funeral, so I

think this must be Louisa Fisk and her husband Isaac Watts,

and perhaps Louisa was known as ‘Minnie’

The other Fisks can be excused for not attending the fune-

ral or sending flowers because they were dead in 1911, but

the curious thing is that there is absolutely no mention that

Ebenezer Edward Fisk either attended his sister-in-law’s fu-

neral, or sent any flowers.

William Fisk and Sarah Short’s son:

Reginald William Fisk

Henrie Fisk having died in his teens, their only surviving son

was Reginald. In 1901, he was 30 but still living with his pa-

rents, in Watford, working as a wholesale lantern slidemaker

and also a photographer (it was him who took the photo of

his uncle and former employer, James Fisk).

In fact, ‘Photograms of the year’ in 1900 reckoned that “RWFISK has now the largest and best collection of Lantern Sli-des of the Holy Land and Eg;ypt in the trade.”

However, in his aunt Sarah's will of 1923 Reginald Fisk gets

a mention and is described as a retired builder - and as well

as photography, it seems he was indeed a partner in a buil-

ding firm - Julian Hunt and David Thorpe mention this in their

2006 book ‘Gerrards Cross: a history’. “These were soonsnapped up by speculative builders like Franklin & Fisk ofRickmansworth, who built six houses between 1907 and1909 including the Turrett House, St Budeaux, Selwyn, Way-side and Belmont.”In 1908 he finally married, to Alice Ann Hirst of Kings Sutton.

This Alice was in the 1901 census as an 18 year old living in

Barry Glamorgan with her uncle, a grocer called Thomas Tib-

bets. Many years later, in 1932, Reginald was co-executor of

the will of this same Thomas Tibbetts, so this family was ob-

viously very close to them.

They got a house in a town just outside Watford, Rickmans-

worth, living at Sonnenberg, Money Hill, Mill End in the 1911

census, where he was recorded as being a partner in a buil-

ding firm.

I believe they only had two children, both daughters, Alice

Mary Fisk (1911) and Dorothy Louise Fisk (1914).

He finally died in Watford in 1946.

William’s son Reginald was still living in Rickmansworth in 1946,

the year he died. Here he is in the phone book.