Brief Life History of Worley Hall
When Worley Hall Fisher was born on 4 July 1913, his father, Dever Monroe Fisher, was 40 and his mother, Daisey May Drake, was 35. He married Marjorie Jobe on 20 January 1948, in Morgan, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Mill Creek Township, Morgan, Missouri, United States in 1920. He died on 21 January 1986, at the age of 72, and was buried in Aikinsville, Morgan, Missouri, United States.
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- Walter H Fisher in household of Den* Fisher, "United States Census, 1920"
- Worley Hall Fisher, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
- Worley Hall Fisher, "Missouri, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
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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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