Brief Life History of Hannah
When Hannah Fisher was born on 7 March 1712, in Norton, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Nathaniel Fisher, was 31 and her mother, Deborah Randall, was 28. She married Joseph Woodward on 20 January 1731, in Norton, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She died about 17 March 1758, in her hometown, at the age of 46.
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- Hannah Fisher, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Hannah Fisher, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910"
- Hannah Fisher Woodward in entry for Woodward, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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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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