Brief Life History of Isaac
When Isaac Fisher was born on 19 May 1725, in Wrentham, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Isaac Fischer I, was 31 and his mother, Esther Man, was 28. He died on 31 May 1725, in Wrentham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 0.
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Sources (5)
- Isaac Fisher, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
- Isaac - Twin Fisher, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
- Legacy NFS Source: Isaac Fisher twin -
Parents and Siblings
1694–1778 Male
1696–1770 Female
Siblings (13)
1718–1797 Female
1720–1798 Male
1722–1773 Female
1722–1722 Male
1725–1725 Male
+8 More Children
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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