Genealogy Report: Descendants of Patrick Fisken & Jean Dron
Descendants of Patrick Fisken & Jean Dron
33.GRACE6 FISKEN (PETER5, PETER4, JOHN3, JOHN2, PATRICK1) was born 9 September 1868 in Waihemo, and died 24 July 1936.She married ROBERT BOAG 31 July 1889 in Rosehill,Chatton. Southland, New Zealand.He died Unknown.
Notes for GRACE FISKEN:
Was secretary for the 1888 Chatton leap year ball held at the Moorhouse Hall, Chatton
More About GRACE FISKEN:
Education: 1879, Knapdale School
More About ROBERT BOAG:
Fact 1: lived in Auckland
Occupation: 1889, Farmer
Marriage Notes for GRACE FISKEN and ROBERT BOAG:
Location-Chatton, Gore, Southland
Details,31 July 1889Boag - Fiskenat the residence of the bride's parents, Rosehill, Chatton, on the 24th. July by the Rev. A Mackay, Robert, eldest son of Mr. Robert Boag, Waikaka Valley, to Grace, eldest daughter of Mr. P Fisken, Chatton ,Gore
Source,The Tapanui Courier 1889 - 1900, Tapanui, Otago, New Zealand
More About ROBERT BOAG and GRACE FISKEN:
Marriage: 31 July 1889, Rosehill,Chatton. Southland, New Zealand
Children of GRACE FISKEN and ROBERT BOAG are:
| 60. | i. | NELSON7 BOAG, b. 1890; d. Bef. 1990. | |
| 61. | ii. | JESSIE GRACE BOAG, b. 1891; d. Bef. 1991. | |
| iii. | JOHN BOAG, b. 1895; d. Bef. 1995; m. SARAH LILIAN RACHEL HUTCHINS; d. Unknown. |
| Notes for JOHN BOAG: No Family |
| Notes for SARAH LILIAN RACHEL HUTCHINS: No Family |
| iv. | AGNES VIOLET ELIZABETH BOAG, b. Abt. 1896; d. 28 June 1963; m. DAVE BLACK; d. Unknown. |
| Notes for AGNES VIOLET ELIZABETH BOAG: No Family |
| Notes for DAVE BLACK: No family |
Notes for PETER FISKEN:
After marriage he had a dairy farm at Edendale
More About PETER FISKEN:
Fact 1: Dairy farm at Edendale
Probate: 7 August 1936
More About MARY JANE FARLAND CLARKE:
Fact 1: Mary was from Edendale
More About PETER FISKEN and MARY CLARKE:
Marriage: 30 September 1903, Methodist Church, Gore, NZ.
Children of PETER FISKEN and MARY CLARKE are:
| 62. | i. | FRANK MERTON7 FISKEN, b. 22 August 1905, Gore; d. 21 September 1971, Invercargill, NZ.. | |
| 63. | ii. | PATRICIA MAY FISKEN, b. 8 August 1904, Gore, NZ.; d. 7 January 1964. |
35.ROBERT CADZOW6 FISKEN (PETER5, PETER4, JOHN3, JOHN2, PATRICK1) was born 30 June 1882 in Chatton , Southland , New Zealand, and died 12 October 1957 in Rotorua, New Zealand.He married CATHERINE GRACE MCCARTHY 1905 in Hastings.She was born 1885 in Bathurst, Australia, and died 28 February 1953 in Rotorua, New Zealand.
Notes for ROBERT CADZOW FISKEN:
Robert, commonly known as Bob Fisken, moved from his home at Knapdale, Gore District, to Poverty Bay. He married Grace McCarthy in Hastings in 1905. In his early days he drove a coach service up the East Coast from Gisborne.
Owned & trained some very good harness horses in Peterwah (imported from America) , Wild Lad, Ena Bell, Great Way & Captain Bolt. Bob Fisken was in the leading bracket of Owner Trainers in New Zealand for many years until his retirement in Early 1930s. Peterwah, one of the most tightly assessed straight out trotters , ever to have raced in New Zealand, was his best horse. Peterwah won numerous trotting races , including the Dominion Handicap. When he reached the 4.21 mark, he was on such impossible marks against horses of his own gait, that Bob was forced to race him against pacers. One of Peterwah's three wins against pacers was in the August Handicap at Addington in which he clocked 4.23.4.5 He was also third in the Auckland Cup after breaking several times.
R. C. (Robert) Fisken, of Gisborne, won theDominion Handicap in 1921 with Wild Lad, a son of Wildmoor and the Rothschild mare Miss Vera.
Winning in a race-record 4:37 3/5 with Wild Lad, Fisken also won at the 1921 meeting with his good pacer Ena Bell.
In taking the Recovery Handicap Ena Bell forced Trix Pointer, who gave her five seconds and place third, to a new national mile mark of 2:08 3/5.
Five years later, Fisken came back to Addington to win the 1926 Dominion off 72 yds., in a race-record 4:30 2/5 with the six-year-old American stallion Peterwah, whom he had imported from New York as a two-year-old.
A Bingen male-line horse, Peterwah was from Janeva, a daughter of Peter the Great who also carried the famous blood of George Wilkes and Axtell Peterwah’s sire Etawah was a great American performer who at two years acquired the world’s record for trotting colts on half-mile tracks of 2:19 ½.
Biography of RC Fisken by his youngest son Geoffrey Bryson Fisken (recollections of a 90 yr. old)
Fuff, as he was commonly known, was one of the kindest men and also one of the strongest I know - started life in Gisborne as a butcher and owned several shops in partnershipwith a man named Ludwickwho was a smallgoods specialist but during the first World War one of the shops was destroyed by an unruly crowd seeing Ludwick was a German though he had lived here for twenty five years. The partnership was eventually disolved and Ludwick started an orchard at Ormond, formed Whonsidlers vinyard which after his death was sold to Montana which is still going today.
Fuff kept on going as a butcher but also got a job as a stock buyerfor a firm called Sim's Cooper & Co. of Christchurch. He was a great judge of stock and well liked. He bought large numbers of sheep mostly on his own account and often sent off mobs of 5000 sheep with two drovers in charge, from Gisborne to Morrinsville in the Waikato which seemed to be the best place of sale at that time - a time on the road of ten weeks. Drovers rate of pay was one Pound a day and it was reported on some days that he was paying out two hundred pounds a day in droving fees. I remember once that eleven mobs of 5000 left our Matawhero farm each a couple of weeks apart bound for Morrinsville. Sometimes, during the school holidays, I was allowed to travel with the head drovers, John and Dougal McKenzie, for a period of time and then I was put on a service car or Dad came and picked me up. It made my day.
Many mobs leaving from Tolaga Bay or Ruatoria went around the coast, came out around the back of Lake Rotorua, then up to Morrinsville. After the mobs arrived in Morrinsville and were sold, the drovers put their horses and dogs in a cattle on the railway and travelled to Taneatua in style.was then a weeks ride back home to Gisborne.
When the big slump hit him in the early 1930s he had 30,000 sheep on the road in NZ. and 40,000 on the hooks on the way to England. To his credit, he didn't file for bankcruptcy but paid everyone out which left him with little money and poor health from which he never recovered.
More About ROBERT CADZOW FISKEN:
Birth Cert.: No. 13154
Education: 1892, Knapdale School
Fact 1: 12 October 1957, passed away aged 75 yrs
Fact 2: 1900, moved from Knapdale to Gisborne
Fact 3: Coach driver- east coast mail run 1902-3
Fact 4: Stock agent in Poverty Bay
Fact 5: Owned butcher shop , Robuck Rd. Gisborne
Fact 6: Land owner / farmer at Materwhero
Fact 7: Trainer/driver of trotting horses , Peterwah
Fact 8: won Domion Handicap, August Hdc. Also owned
Fact 9: Captain Bolt, Great Way, Ena Bell.
Notes for CATHERINE GRACE MCCARTHY:
More About CATHERINE GRACE MCCARTHY:
Fact 1: 28 February 1953, passed away aged 68 yrs.
Probate: 20 April 1953
More About ROBERT FISKEN and CATHERINE MCCARTHY:
Marriage: 1905, Hastings
Children of ROBERT FISKEN and CATHERINE MCCARTHY are:
| i. | LINDA7 FISKEN, b. Private. | ||
| 64. | ii. | ROBERT MARTIN FISKEN, b. 28 November 1906, GisborneNew Zealand; d. 17 October 1954, Middlemore HospitalAuckland. | |
| 65. | iii. | UNA FISKEN, b. 6 July 1909, GisborneNew Zealand; d. Bef. 2000, GisborneNew Zealand. | |
| 66. | iv. | HAROLD RAYMOND (CHAPPIE) FISKEN, b. 28 May 1911, GisborneNew Zealand; d. 4 February 1992, Pukekohe hospital. | |
| 67. | v. | ROMA FISKEN, b. Private. | |
| 68. | vi. | GEOFFREY BRYSON. FISKEN, b. Private. |
36.DONALD BLAIR6 FISKEN (GEORGE BLAIR5, JAMES4, JOHN3, JOHN2, PATRICK1) was born 15 April 1873 in Park St. East, Emerald Hill, South Melborne, and died 10 January 1939 in Williamstown hospital.He married AMY ELIZABETH BINGHAM 22 February 1896 in Melborne, daughter of HENRY BINGHAM and RUTH UNKNOWN.She was born 13 December 1876 in East Dulwich, England, and died 11 October 1961 in Footscray.
Notes for DONALD BLAIR FISKEN:
Donald Blair worked in a bakery at Casterton. He then owned two bakeries ,one at Dunkeld, followed by one at Echuca. he then went to work at a bakery in Balranald to make extra money to buy "the Village bakery" at 122 Douglas Parade, Williamstown. On retiring from that bakery he purchased a property at Wesburn.He died in Williamstown Hospital & was buried atWilliamstown Cemetary. There is no headstone, only the name Fisken at the foot.
He served in the AIF. military forces in world war one.
Welcome home Private D Fisken.
A District Soldier came home to Casterton on Friday night last in the person of Private D Fisken, a well known Casterton man who left wife and family to do his 'little bit' in the A.I.F. He was met at the station by Cr. J.W. Murell who escorted him to Hentry St. where the band and a crowd of people joined in giving a cordial welcom to the returned soldier. Cr. Murell, after welcoming strains of music had been played by the band, said he was proud (in the unavoidable abscence of the shire president, who was unable to venture out owing to a severe cold) to welcome Private Fisken who had done a good service for his country abroad. Private Fisken had worthily done his duty to his country and he (Cr. Murell) could not but admire men like him who had even left a wife and family in the cause of his duty and had done grand at the fronts abroad. He ( Cr. Murell) felt sure if they askedother soldiers who had been through the perilsand hardships of warfare, "Are you downhearted" they would answer "No" But he feared, we the people they had left at homein Australia, were not backing up the men who were fighting for us wit vigor cheerfulness equal to theirs.
Private Fisken enlisted at Casterton on March 1st. 1915 and after training at broadmedows and in Egypt, went on to Gallipoli, where, with his comrades of the 14th. battalion, was in the thick of the fighting on the peninsula, and took part in the trenches in the Great British Attack on 7/8/1915. Invalided from Gallipoli to England through illness, he was subsequently sent to France, where he being an expert baker, was long engaged in the biggest bakery in the world, which is maintained for supply of bread to the British Army on the Western Front. He was afterwards engaged as chef to General Antill in England, and still suffering effect of shell-shock sustained on Gallipoli, was eventually invalided to Australia.
Notes for AMY ELIZABETH BINGHAM:
Amy was the 13th. child of 22 children, her father married twice, her mother died 18 months after Amy was born.
On her death she was cremated at Memorial Park Western Suburbs Crematorium. Her ashes are in a Niche Wall B.E., position 184
More About AMY ELIZABETH BINGHAM:
Burial: Unknown, Memorial Park Western Suburbs Crematorium, Nth. Altona.
More About DONALD FISKEN and AMY BINGHAM:
Marriage: 22 February 1896, Melborne
Children of DONALD FISKEN and AMY BINGHAM are:
| 69. | i. | RUTH EVELYN7 FISKEN, b. 13 April 1897, Emerald Hill, Melborne; d. 19 February 1968, In Thelma Doull's house at Williamstown. | |
| ii. | JOHN ELMORE FISKEN, b. 16 October 1901, Lord St. Cobden; d. 26 October 1901, Lord St. Cobden. |
| Notes for JOHN ELMORE FISKEN: John died shortly after birth |
| 70. | iii. | NORMAN WALLACE BRETTON FISKEN, b. 4 November 1902, Mortlake Rd. Terang, County of Hampden; d. 22 December 1976, Alfred hospital, Prahan. | |
| 71. | iv. | GORDON FRAMLINGHAM FISKEN, b. 22 October 1904, Framlingham; d. 13 May 1971, Mornington. | |
| 72. | v. | HAZEL WILHELMINA ISABEL FISKEN, b. 20 January 1907, 48 Helen St. Northcote, Melborne; d. 8 May 1993. | |
| vi. | AMY GLENELG BINGHAM FISKEN, b. Private; m. ARTHUR BOYCE HEATH, Private; b. 28 September 1908; d. 2 June 1953, Upper Beconsfield Golf Course. |
| More About ARTHUR BOYCE HEATH: Burial: Aft. 4 June 1953, Melaleuca-Rose Tree,Garden M3 Bed4,Rose 18 Cremation: 4 June 1953, Springvale Cemetary,Victoria |
| More About ARTHUR HEATH and AMY FISKEN: Private-Begin: Private |