When Isaac Fisher was born on 19 May 1725, in Wrentham, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Isaac Fisher 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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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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