Mary Elizabeth Fisher

Brief Life History of Mary Elizabeth

When Mary Elizabeth Fisher was born in 1872, in Miami, Indiana, United States, her father, Terry Fisher, was 35 and her mother, Fanny Clingenpeel, was 31. She married Matthew James Hoffman about 1898, in North Dakota, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Prairie View Township, Wilkin, Minnesota, United States in 1920 and American Judicial Township, Sacramento, California, United States in 1930. She died on 15 April 1945, in Sacramento, Sacramento, California, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Sacramento, Sacramento, California, United States.

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Family Time Line

Matthew James Hoffman
1875–
Mary Elizabeth Fisher
1872–1945
Marriage: about 1898
Vernice May Hoffman
1900–2000
Paul Del Paso Hoffman
1912–2013

Sources (13)

  • Mary E Hoffman, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Mary Hoffman, "California Death Index, 1940-1997"
  • Mary E Hoffman in entry for Paul Del Paso Hoffman, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"

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1873

Historical Boundaries: 1873: Rolette, Dakota Territory, United States 1889: Rolette, North Dakota, United States

1893 · The Minnesota State Flag

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Name Meaning

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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