When Emily Jane Fisher was born about 1847, in Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, her father, Thomas Jefferson Fisher, was 36 and her mother, Mary Ann Woodland, was 36. She married Charles Lampkey in Iowa, United States. She lived in Crescent Township, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States in 1860.
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Historical Boundaries: 1847: Pottawattamie, Iowa, 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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