Brief Life History of Thomas William John
When Thomas William John Fisher was born on 24 May 1835, in Woolwich, Kent, England, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Frederick Fisher, was 24 and his mother, Jane Christton, was 23. He married Elizabeth Prescott from 1854 to 1863, in Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. He lived in Charlton and Kidbrooke, Kent, England, United Kingdom in 1851. He died on 24 July 1874, in Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States, at the age of 39, and was buried in Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States.
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- Thomas Fisher in household of Thomas Fisher, "England and Wales Census, 1851"
- Thomas William John Fisher, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Thomas William John Fisher, "Find A Grave Index"
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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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Thomas William John Fisher Born 24 May 1835 in Woolwich, Kent, England Died 24 July 1874 in Bountiful, Davis, Utah Georgiana's parents are Thomas Frederick Fisher and Jane Christton. They both were …
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