Born about in Lancaster, Lancashire, England
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
John Rigby
— married
30 May 1639 in Wigan, All Saints, Lancashire, England
Wife of
Edward Breck
— married
1647 in Massachusetts Bay
Wife of
Anthony Fisher Jr.
— married
14 Nov 1663 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Descendants 
Mother of
Samuel (Rigbee) Rigby, Mehitable (Rigby) Turner, Abigail (Rigby) Holeman, Mary (Breck) Tolman, John Breck, Elizabeth (Breck) Minot and Susanna (Breck) Harris
Died
at about age 65
in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay
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Biography
The assumption has been made that she was Isabel Prescott, who married a John Rigby in Wigan, Lancashire, England, on 30 May 1639. John was living in Standish parish at the time. John and Isabel had two children: Dorothy, baptized on 15 October 1640, and Edward, baptized on 10 February 1641/2, both in Standish parish.[1] The Dorchester baptism record of Elizabeth Rigby, assumed to have been the child of John Rigby, says it was on 3 March 1637/8. These records show that John and Isabel (Prescott) Rigby were a different couple than the one who immigrated to New England.
Sources
- ↑ St. Wilfrid, Standish, parish register images, FindmyPast database online.
- Willcox, Doris Schreiber. Edward1 Breck’s Baptismal Record and Identification of His “Daughter Blake”, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 2010) Vol. 164, WN 655, Page 180.
- Wigan Anglican Parish Registers. Wigan Archives Services, Wigan, England
- Name: Isabell Prescott
- Marriage: 30 May 1639 Wigan, All Saints, Lancashire, England
- Spouse: John Rigby
- "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JMKZ-NVM : accessed 21 May 2015), Isabel Prescott, 26 Feb 1608; citing STANDISH,LANCASHIRE,ENGLAND, reference ; FHL microfilm 0844803 IT 4. Indexing Project (Batch) Number: P00547-1 , System Origin: England-ODM , GS Film number: 0844803 IT 4
- Name: Isabel Prescott
- Christening: 26 Feb 1608 Standish, Lancashire, England
- Father: Richard Prescott
- Spousal information for John Rigby, and Anthony Fisher obtained at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~brouwergenealogydata/Drake/p2.htm#c190483.1
- Hyde, Myrtle Stevens & Plummer, John. The English Ancestry of New England Settlers Joshua and Anthony Fisher, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1997) Vol. 151, Page 178. Page 182.
- Anthony (Fisher) married second, at Dorchester, 14 November 1663, Isabel (-----) (Rigby) Breck, widow of both John Rigby and Edward Breck, both of Dorchester. [1]
- Genealogy of the Breck family : descended from Edward of Dorchester and his brothers in America : with an appendix of additional biographical and historical matter, obituary notices, letters, etc., and armorial bearings ppgs 11 - 13
- Ancestral File Number: 8M1S-L3
- Boston (Massachusetts). Record Commissioners. A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston: Containing Dorchester Births, Marriages, and Deaths to the End of 1825. (Boston, Massachusetts: Rockwell and Churchill, city printers, 1890), 21.
- Anthony Fisher Sen: Married the Widow of Edward Breck the 14th of (9 mo:) 1663. [9th month is November] [2]
- First Church (Dorchester, Massachusetts). Records of the First Church at Dorchester in New England, 1636-1734. (Boston, Massachusetts: G. H. Ellis, 1891), 153. [3]
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"Fisher Genealogy" (although mistaken about the given name of his first wife) does not give surname of Isabel but calls her "widow of Edward Breck." "English Ancestry of Joshua and Anthony Fisher" calls her Isabel ____ (Rigby) Breck Does anyone know of a scholarly source that gives her maiden name of "Prescott?"
Are there any objections to removing the surname "Prescott" and replacing it with Unknown?
I went to FamilySearch and could not find any records for an Elizabeth Prescott who was married to Rigby, Breck, or Fisher.
However, it is "telling" to note that Edward Breck and his 1st wife Mary had 5 children who were born at Prescott, Lancashire, England.
My guess is that some researcher, somewhere needed a last name and decided to make it Prescott.
According to New England Historic and Genealogical Record (NGHGR) her last name is unknown.
See here, if you have a subscription: [1]
Does anyone have a scholarly, dependable source for the last name "Prescott" for Isabel?
My sources say that Isabel's LNAB is unknown.
Prescott-75 and Prescott-560 appear to represent the same person because: When all freely available sources are considered, it is most evident that Isabel was born Prescott, married 1st John Rigby (Rigby-18, Rigby-21, Rigby-25, Rigby-29, Rigby-389, & Rigbee-1) and moved w/ him from England to Mass and w/ whom she had 4 children: Mehitable Turner (Rigby-23); Abigail Holman (Rigby-22 & Rigby-28); Elizabeth Atherton (Rigby-20) & Samuel Rigby (Rigby-26 & Rigbee-2). She later married Edward Breck (Breck-6) with whom she had 2 children: Mary Breck (Breck-26) & John Breck (Breck-12). Finally she married Anthony Fisher (Fisher-421) on 11-14-1663 with whom it seems she had no childen. I therefore suggest merging each of her 5 profiles (Prescott-72, Prescott-75, Prescott-560, Rigby-48, & UNKNOWN-38398) into Prescott-72 as it is the oldest of her true LNAB profiles.
Prescott-75 and Rigby-48 appear to represent the same person because: When all freely available sources are considered, it is most evident that Isabel was born Prescott, married 1st John Rigby (Rigby-18, Rigby-21, Rigby-25, Rigby-29, Rigby-389, & Rigbee-1) and moved w/ him from England to Mass and w/ whom she had 4 children: Mehitable Turner (Rigby-23); Abigail Holman (Rigby-22 & Rigby-28); Elizabeth Atherton (Rigby-20) & Samuel Rigby (Rigby-26 & Rigbee-2). She later married Edward Breck (Breck-6) with whom she had 2 children: Mary Breck (Breck-26) & John Breck (Breck-12). Finally she married Anthony Fisher (Fisher-421) on 11-14-1663 with whom it seems she had no childen. I therefore suggest merging each of her 5 profiles (Prescott-72, Prescott-75, Prescott-560, Rigby-48, & UNKNOWN-38398) into Prescott-72 as it is the oldest of her true LNAB profiles.
Prescott-75 and Prescott-72 appear to represent the same person because: When all freely available sources are considered, it is most evident that Isabel was born Prescott, married 1st John Rigby (Rigby-18, Rigby-21, Rigby-25, Rigby-29, Rigby-389, & Rigbee-1) and moved w/ him from England to Mass and w/ whom she had 4 children: Mehitable Turner (Rigby-23); Abigail Holman (Rigby-22 & Rigby-28); Elizabeth Atherton (Rigby-20) & Samuel Rigby (Rigby-26 & Rigbee-2). She later married Edward Breck (Breck-6) with whom she had 2 children: Mary Breck (Breck-26) & John Breck (Breck-12). Finally she married Anthony Fisher (Fisher-421) on 11-14-1663 with whom it seems she had no childen. I therefore suggest merging each of her 5 profiles (Prescott-72, Prescott-75, Prescott-560, Rigby-48, & UNKNOWN-38398) into Prescott-72 as it is the oldest of her true LNAB profiles.
Prescott-75 and UNKNOWN-38398 appear to represent the same person because: When all freely available sources are considered, it is most evident that Isabel was born Prescott, married 1st John Rigby (Rigby-18, Rigby-21, Rigby-25, Rigby-29, Rigby-389, & Rigbee-1) and moved w/ him from England to Mass and w/ whom she had 4 children: Mehitable Turner (Rigby-23); Abigail Holman (Rigby-22 & Rigby-28); Elizabeth Atherton (Rigby-20) & Samuel Rigby (Rigby-26 & Rigbee-2). She later married Edward Breck (Breck-6) with whom she had 2 children: Mary Breck (Breck-26) & John Breck (Breck-12). Finally she married Anthony Fisher (Fisher-421) on 11-14-1663 with whom it seems she had no childen. I therefore suggest merging each of her 5 profiles (Prescott-72, Prescott-75, Prescott-560, Rigby-48, & UNKNOWN-38398) into Prescott-72 as it is the oldest of her true LNAB profiles.
When all freely available sources are considered, it is most evident that Isabel was born Prescott, married 1st John Rigby (Rigby-18, Rigby-21, Rigby-25, Rigby-29, Rigby-389, & Rigbee-1) and moved w/ him from England to Mass and w/ whom she had 4 children: Mehitable Turner (Rigby-23); Abigail Holman (Rigby-22 & Rigby-28); Elizabeth Atherton (Rigby-20) & Samuel Rigby (Rigby-26 & Rigbee-2). She later married Edward Breck (Breck-6) with whom she had 2 children: Mary Breck (Breck-26) & John Breck (Breck-12). Finally she married Anthony Fisher (Fisher-421) on 11-14-1663 with whom it seems she had no childen. I therefore suggest merging each of her 5 profiles (Prescott-72, Prescott-75, Prescott-560, Rigby-48, & UNKNOWN-38398) into Prescott-72 as it is the oldest of her true LNAB profiles.
Rigby-48 and Prescott-560 appear to represent the same person because: match
Rigby-48 and Prescott-72 appear to represent the same person because: match
Breck-4 and Rigby-48 appear to represent the same person because: one of 4 profiles for the same woman
Rigby-92 and Breck-4 appear to represent the same person because: She married 3 times, and married Anthony Fisher last. Still haven't found her true LNAB yet though
Rigby-48 and Rigby-92 appear to represent the same person because: Rigby-92, Rigby-228, and Rigby-48 are the same woman
Rigby-228 and Rigby-48 appear to represent the same person because: 3-way merge
Rigby-92 and Rigby-228 appear to represent the same person because: Hi,
I am very interested in the Rigby family line, and I have discovered a match for Isabel. Rigby-92 and Rigby-228 are (I believe) the same person.
Isn't this exciting? I am enjoying the Wikitree!