Brief Life History of William
When William Fisher was born in 1750, in Lindridge, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Humfrey Fisher, was 26 and his mother, Elizabeth Gardner, was 18. He was buried in Lindridge, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom.
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- William Fisher, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Legacy NFS Source: William Fisher - Church record: Death record or certificate: burial: 17 March 1787; Lindridge, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom
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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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