When John L. Fisher was born on 2 February 1802, in Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Henry F. Fisher, was 36 and his mother, Catherine Little, was 33. He married Catharine Harner about 1825, in Germany Township, Adams, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Germany Township, Adams, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years. He died on 2 March 1878, at the age of 76, and was buried in Littlestown, Adams, Pennsylvania, 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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