When William Fisher was born in 1756, in Londonderry, Rockingham, New Hampshire, British Colonial America, his father, William James Fisher, was 40 and his mother, Eleanor Archibald, was 32. He married Esther Logan on 14 February 1786, in Truro, Colchester, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He died in 1811, in Salmon River, Colchester, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 55, and was buried in Truro, Colchester, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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English: occupational name for a fisherman, from Middle English fis(sc)her(e) ‘fisherman’ (Old English fiscere). In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from many other languages, including German Fischer and its Slavic(ized) variant Fišer (see Fiser ), Dutch Visser , Hungarian Halász (see Halasz ), Italian Pescatore , Slovenian Ribič (see Ribic ), and Croatian Ribić or Ribar .
English: in a few cases, possibly a topographic name for someone who lived near a fish weir on a river, from Middle English fis(sc)hwere, fisshyar ‘fish weir’ (Old English fiscwer, fiscgear), or a habitational name from a place so named, such as Fisher in North Mundham, Sussex.
Irish: translation into English of Gaelic Ó Bradáin ‘descendant of Bradán’, a personal name meaning ‘salmon’. See Braden .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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