When Anna Elizabeth Fischer was born on 9 September 1861, in Delaware Township, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Friedrich Heinrich Emil Fischer, was 28 and her mother, Rowena Kingsbury, was 24. She married Henry Howard Lieb on 12 July 1879, in Alameda, Alameda, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880. She died on 28 February 1943, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Inglewood, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Hans, Otto, Erwin, Gerhard, Helmut, Fritz, Klaus, Horst, Dieter, Franz, Ernst.
German, Danish, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a fisherman, from Middle High German visch, German Fisch ‘fish’ + the agent suffix -er. This form of the surname is also established in some other parts of Europe, notably in France (Alsace and Lorraine), Hungary, and the Netherlands. In Poland, Czechia, Croatia, and Slovenia it is (also) established in the Slavicized forms Fiszer (Polish) and Fišer (see Fiser ). Compare Fisher .
Scottish: variant of Fisher .
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