Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary Fisher was born on 19 October 1898, in Eastman, Crawford, Wisconsin, United States, her father, James Fisher Jr., was 36 and her mother, Agnes C. Stuart, was 32.
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Family Time Line
Sources (5)
- Mary Fisher in household of James Fisher, "United States Census, 1920"
- Mary Fisher, "Wisconsin Births and Christenings, 1826-1926"
- Mary Fisher in household of James Fisher, "United States Census, 1900"
Parents and Siblings
1862–1939 Male
1866–1923 Female
Siblings (4)
1885–1899 Female
1896–1978 Male
1898–1969 Female
1898– Female
World Events (8)
1900 · Gold for Cash!
Age 2
1907 · Law Passed for Child Employment
Age 9
1929
Age 31
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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