When Callie Mae Fisher was born on 5 March 1894, in Jackson, North Carolina, United States, her father, Bartlett Clingman Fisher, was 39 and her mother, Margaret Alice Miller, was 38. She married Joseph Bradley on 22 October 1911, in Swain, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Qualla, Jackson, North Carolina, United States in 1930 and Qualla Township, Jackson, North Carolina, United States for about 10 years. She died on 26 April 1960, in Whittier, Swain, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Campground Cemetery, Indian Hills, Jackson, North Carolina, United States.
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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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