Brief Life History of Miriam
Mrs Miriam Fisher was born in 1853. She had at least 6 sons and 3 daughters with Daniel Cormack. She lived in Bath, Somerset, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years. She died in 1931, at the age of 78.
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Family Time Line
Sources (2)
- Miriam Cornick in household of Daniel Cornick, "England and Wales Census, 1891"
- Miriam Carmack in household of Daniel Carmack, "England and Wales Census, 1901"
Spouse and Children
1851– Male
1853–1931 Female
Children (9)
1883–1942 Male
1884– Male
1885– Female
1886– Male
1887– Male
+4 More Children
World Events (7)
1854 · The Crimean War
Age 1
1880 · School Attendance Becomes Mandatory for Children
Age 27
1884
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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