When Charles Fisher was born about August 1820, in Maybole, Ayrshire, Scotland, his father, William Fisher, was 31 and his mother, Agnes McWilliam, was 28. He married Mary Hodgeon on 25 June 1841, in Maybole, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Carrick, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1851. He died on 2 April 1895, in Maybole, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, at the age of 74.
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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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