When Fischer Messick was born on 30 March 1754, in Stepney Parish, Somerset, Maryland, British Colonial America, his father, Elihu Nelson Mezick I, was 37 and his mother, Sarah Fisher, was 35.
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Americanized form of an unidentified French surname, presumably Messac: habitational name from any of several places with this name (e.g. in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany), named in Gallo-Roman times as the estate of someone called Mettius. Compare Messex and Mezick .
In some cases an Americanized form of Croatian (and possibly also Bosniak) Mesić and Mešić, Slovenian Mešič (see Mesic , compare Mesick 2).
In some cases an Americanized form of Slovak Mesík: unexplained. Compare Mesick 3.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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