William Wyman Fiske received a B.A. in Chemistry from Swarthmore College in 1979. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine (UCLA) and American Board of Dermatology (Yale), having completed his MD in 1985 from the University of Massachusetts School of Medicine. William lives on Cape Cod with his wife, Anna, where he serves as Director of Dermatology for Cape Cod Healthcare.

His primary focus in Genealogy relates to family associations in Tudor England and their contributions to the Great Migration.

Genealogical Publications:

“Descendants of Salem ‘Witch’ Margaret (Jacobs) Foster,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register 176(2022):121-137.

“Confused Cousins: Benjamin Ober, Mariner, of Beverly, and Benjamin Ober, Weaver, of Manchester,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register 176(2022):172.

“The Wylley and Cramphorne Families of Hertfordshire and Their Contribution to the Great Migration,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register 171(2017):133–53, 245–57.

“The Rhode Island Barker Family: Suffolk Background and Connections to Other New England Immigrants” (with co-author Jane Fletcher Fiske, FASG), New England Historical and Genealogical Register 169(2015):205–15, 323–33, 170(2016):66–78.

“The Two Wives of Lionel Chute, Schoolmaster of Ipswich, Massachusetts,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register 163(2009):137–38.

“Ancestry of Arthur and Frances (Warman) Gary of Roxbury, Massachusetts Revisited,” The Genealogist 20(2008):191–217.

“Ancestry of Bennet Eliot of Nazeing, Essex, Father of Seven Great Migration Immigrants to Massachusetts,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register 161(2007):85–91, 186–98, 250–59, 162(2008):65–72, 128–39.

“Joan (___) (Wylley) Pilston of Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register 161(2007):278–81.

“The Perry Family of Sawbridgeworth, Herts.” The American Genealogist 82(2007):81–90, 187–95, 273–89.

“The Whipple Family of Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire: Proposed Ancestral Origin of Matthew Whipple of Bocking, Essex, and a Whipple Ancestral Line for Arthur Gary of Roxbury, Massachusetts,” The Genealogist 20(2006):191–217.

“English Origin of Massachusetts Immigrants John Reddington of Topsfield and Abraham Reddington of Boxford,” The American Genealogist 81(2006):66–74.

“The London Origin of Richard Waters of Salem, Massachusetts: Revisited,” The American Genealogist 81(2006):172–82.

“Clarke and Stacy Origins of Three Immigrants to Ipswich, Massachusettts: Simon and Elizabeth (Clarke) Stacy and Her Sister, Susanna (Clarke) Whipple,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register 160(2006):17–29.

“Ancestry of Lettice (Alger) Eliot of Nazeing, Essex, Mother of Seven Great Migration Immigrants to Massachusetts,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register 160(2006):181–84.

“The English Origin of Phebe (Perry) Desborough, Wife of Walter Desborough of Roxbury, Massachusetts” The American Genealogist 80(2005):261–63.

“The Wall Family of Essex, Part Two: The English Origin of James Wall of Hampton and Exeter, New Hampshire; Including Shared Averell Ancestry with Elizabeth (Sibthorp) Elliot, Wife of Philip Elliot of Roxbury, Massachusetts,” The American Genealogist 80(2005):102–16, 201–16.

“The Wall Family of Essex, Part One: The English Origin of Anna (Wall) (Jacob) Moody, Wife of Samuel Jacob of Ipswich, Massachusetts, and of the Reverend Joshua Moody of Portsmouth, New Hampshire,” The American Genealogist 80(2005):1–10.

“John Wall of Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire, Third Husband of Agnes (Wylley) (Denison) (Gace) Wall,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register 158(2004):361–63.

“Probable English Origin of George Jacob of Salem, MA: Executed During the Salem Witchcraft Hysteria of 1692,” The American Genealogist 79(2004): 3–12, 209–17, 253–59.

“William Burrows of Ipswich New Hampshire,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register 154(2000):290–320.