When Allen Usher was born on 15 August 1796, in Bristol, Bristol, Rhode Island, United States, his father, Edward Usher, was 34 and his mother, Phebe Lawton, was 32. He married Abigail Pearse Blake on 16 March 1828, in Bristol, Rhode Island, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 2 October 1870, in Smithfield Township, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Union Cemetery, East Smithfield, Smithfield Township, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States.
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English: occupational name from Middle English usher ‘usher, doorkeeper’, Old French (le) ussier, huissier, Anglo-Norman French usser, from Late Latin ustiarius, a derivative of classical Latin ostium ‘door, gate’. The term was also used in the Middle Ages of a court official charged with accompanying a person of rank on ceremonial occasions, and this may be a partial source of the surname. This name has been in Ireland since 1302, when John le Ussher was constable of Dublin Castle, and has sometimes been used as an equivalent of Hesson .
Jewish (from Poland and Ukraine): from a southern Yiddish pronunciation of the Yiddish male personal name Osher (Hebrew Asher ).
History: Hezekiah Usher (died 1676) is buried in King's Chapel Burying Ground, Boston, MA.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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