When Joseph Fisher was born on 3 October 1803, in Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, John Fisher, was 26 and his mother, Nancy Mary Fraser, was 22. He had at least 3 daughters with Margaret Johnson. He died on 19 June 1869, in Uniontown, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Old Methodist Cemetery, Uniontown, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States.
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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 .
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