When Orrin Peirce Fisher was born on 9 July 1903, in Magrath, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada, his father, Franklin Peirce Fisher, was 21 and his mother, Sarah Ann Gibb, was 22. He married Loila Quinton on 13 November 1930, in Cardston County, Alberta, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Alberta, Canada in 1916 and Fort Macleod, MD of Willow Creek No. 26, Alberta, Canada for about 5 years. He died on 23 May 1986, in Cardston County, Alberta, Canada, at the age of 82, and was buried in Cardston Cemetery, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada.
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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.
Possible Related NamesOrrin Peirce Fisher is my grandfather. We called him Grandpa. I lived in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada most of my life and we'd travel six hours south to see him and Grandma Fisher most summers. I remem …
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