Brief Life History of Phebe
When Phebe Fisher was born on 17 March 1730, in Wrentham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States, her father, John Fisher, was 23 and her mother, Phebe Gay, was 18. She died on 22 January 1762, in Franklin, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 31, and was buried in Franklin, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Phebe Fisher, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Phebe Fisher, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
- Phebe Fisher Archer, "Find A Grave Index"
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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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