Brief Life History of Mary Ann
When Mary Ann Fisher was born on 21 May 1844, in Woolwich, Kent, England, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Frederick Fisher, was 33 and her mother, Jane Christton, was 32. She married Richard Erastus Egan on 30 March 1861, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 11 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom in 1871 and Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States in 1880. She died on 26 December 1887, in Woods Cross, Davis, Utah, United States, at the age of 43, and was buried in Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States.
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- Lanna Fisher in household of William Fisher, "United States Census, 1870"
- Mary Ann Fisher, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Mary Ann Fisher Egan, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1848
Historical Boundaries: 1848: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Davis, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Davis, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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Richard Erastus (Ras) Egan was eighteen years old when he courted Minnie Fisher during the winter of 1860. He had just purchased a pair of brand new boots and rode out to see her on his horse. It wa …
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