Brief Life History of Humfrey
When Humfrey Fisher was born in 1724, in Lindridge, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Fisher, was 34 and his mother, Mary Thomas, was 28. He married Elizabeth Gardner on 4 May 1749, in Pensax, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He was buried in Lindridge, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom.
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- Humfrey Fisher in entry for William Fisher, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Parish registers for Pensax
- Bishop's transcripts for Laysters, Lindridge.
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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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