Margaret Ann Fish
(1807–1877)
BIRTH
1807
PLACE
DEATH
March 3, 1877
PLACE
FAMILY
FATHER
Nicholas Fish
(1758-1833)
BROTHER
Petrus Stuyvesant Fish
(1813-1834)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Margaret Ann Fish Neilson (1807–1877) was the daughter of Revolutionary officer Nicholas Fish and Elizabeth Stuyvesant, and sister of Hamilton Fish. She married physician John Neilson in 1826 and was widowed in 1851. In 1856 she bought a substantial house on East 17th Street in New York, where her children lived and family weddings took place. Her daughter Helen married artist Maitland Armstrong there in 1866. House histories preserve these details of her household.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Margaret Anne Fish’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Margaret Anne Fish is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Margaret Anne Fish died on Mar 3, 1877. Margaret Ann Fish Neilson was the daughter of Revolutionary officer Nicholas Fish and Elizabeth Stuyvesant, and sister of Hamilton Fish. She married physician John Neilson in 1826 and was widowed in 1851. In 1856 she bought a substantial house on East 17th Street in New York, where her children lived and family weddings took place. Her daughter Helen married artist Maitland Armstrong there in 1866. House histories preserve these details of her household. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES
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