Brief Life History of Isaac
When Isaac Fisher was born on 7 June 1814, in Virginia, United States, his father, David Fisher, was 31 and his mother, Susanna Juliana Snapp, was 24. He married Susanna Pitman on 14 March 1843, in Shenandoah, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Shenandoah Valley, Shenandoah, Virginia, United States in 1850 and Strasburg, Shenandoah, Virginia, United States in 1860. He died on 25 April 1866, at the age of 51, and was buried in Strasburg, Shenandoah, Virginia, United States.
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- Isaac Fisher, "United States Census, 1850"
- Isaac, "Virginia, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Birth Records, 1853-1896"
- Isaac, "Virginia, County Marriage Records, 1771-1989"
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1819 · Panic! of 1819
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1824 · "Mary Randolph Publishes ""The Virginia Housewife"""
“The Virginia Housewife” was published by Mary Randolph. It was the first cookbook published in America.
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
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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