When Marshall Fisher was born on 12 January 1888, in Hawthorne, Walker, Texas, United States, his father, Isom Fisher, was 36 and his mother, Clarissa Parker, was 35. He married Addie Williams on 21 December 1909, in Walker, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Justice Precinct 4, Walker, Texas, United States for about 10 years and Walker, Texas, United States in 1950. He died on 12 March 1968, in Houston, Harris, Texas, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in New Waverly, Walker, Texas, United States.
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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