When Lyman Francis Fish was born on 12 March 1849, in Skowhegan, Somerset, Maine, United States, his father, William W Fish, was 33 and his mother, Sarah Ann Pratt, was 27. He married Laura E. Greenlaw on 24 December 1874, in Calais, Washington, Maine, United States. He lived in Fairfield, Somerset, Maine, United States for about 50 years and Somerset, Maine, United States in 1920. He was buried in Bloomfield, Somerset, Maine, United States.
English: from Middle English fish, fisch, fisk ‘fish’ (Old English fisc, Old Norse fiskr), a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman or fish seller, or a nickname for someone thought to resemble a fish.
Americanized form of German Fisch , and a variant of the same Jewish (Ashkenazic) surname. The surname of Jewish and German origin is also found in Britain.
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Poisson ‘fish’.
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