Brief Life History of William Herbert
When William Herbert Fisher was born on 22 October 1862, in Clinton Township, DeKalb, Illinois, United States, his father, Jeremiah Fisher Jr., was 47 and his mother, Elizabeth Erwin, was 36. He died on 16 November 1880, in his hometown, at the age of 18.
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Family Time Line
Sources (1)
- W Herbert Fisher in household of Jeremiah Fisher, "United States Census, 1870"
Parents and Siblings
1815–1900 Male
1825–1903 Female
Siblings (3)
1860–1898 Female
1862–1880 Male
1865–1940 Male
World Events (3)
1863
Age 1
1863 · The Battle at Gettysburg
Age 1
1871
Age 9
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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