When Judith Fisher was born in 1663, in Dedham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Anthony Fisher, was 41 and her mother, Johanna Faxon, was 35. She married John Bullen on 3 January 1684, in Medfield, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 9 January 1753, in Medway, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 90, and was buried in Prospect Hill Cemetery, Millis, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States.
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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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