Brief Life History of Emily Elizabeth
When Emily Elizabeth Fisher was born on 21 December 1849, in Denmark, Lee, Iowa, United States, her father, Asa Manning Fisher, was 32 and her mother, Elizabeth Dennis, was 30. She married John Bennett on 11 November 1885, in Lee, Iowa, United States. She lived in Denmark Township, Lee, Iowa, United States for about 40 years. She died on 24 October 1907, in Denmark, Lee, Iowa, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Denmark Cemetery, Denmark, Lee, Iowa, United States.
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Sources (7)
- Emily F Bennett in household of John Bennett, "United States Census, 1900"
- Emily E. Fisher, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
- Emily Bennett, "Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951"
Spouse and Children
1830–1905 Male
1849–1907 Female
Parents and Siblings
1817–1881 Male
1819–1883 Female
Siblings (1)
1849–1907 Female
World Events (8)
1857 · The State Capital moves to Des Moines
Age 8
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1865
Age 16
Name Meaning
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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