Joan Fisher

Brief Life History of Joan

When Joan Fisher was born in 1565, in Bledlow, Buckinghamshire, England, her father, John Fisher, was 21 and her mother, Alice Gunne, was 20. She had at least 1 son with Robert Manningham.

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Robert Manningham
1550–1588
Joan Fisher
1565–
John Manningham
1585–1622

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    World Events (3)

    1569 · State Lottery

    A State Lottery was recorded in 1569. The tickets were sold at St. Paul's Cathedral in London.

    1571 · The Royal Exchange is Organized

    The Royal Exchange was organized in January 1571 by Sir Thomas Gresham. Gresham is known as the father of English banking.

    1585 · The First English Colony is Established in America

    England established its first colony in North America in 1585 as a way to generate additional wealth. The colony was named Virginia, after the virgin Queen Elizabeth I.

    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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