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  • Abiah Colburne (1589 - d.)
  • Abigail "Alice" Baker (1646 - 1724)
    Abigail Fisher Baker BIRTH 2 Jun 1646 - Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA DEATH 14 Jan 1724 (aged 77) - Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA BURIAL Old Village Cemetery, Dedham, ...
  • Abigail Fisher (b. - bef.1651)
    Created 5/12/2020 Uploaded at husband's profile Ens. Daniel Fisher pdf at Media tab Daniel Fisher profile from Early New England Families Study Project 2013 Has new research on family group a...

About the Fisher surname

Fisher Name Meaning English: occupational name for a fisherman, Middle English fischer. The name has also been used in Ireland as a loose equivalent of Braden. As an American family name, this has absorbed cognates and names of similar meaning from many other European languages, including German Fischer, Dutch Visser, Hungarian Halász, Italian Pescatore, Polish Rybarz, etc. In a few cases, the English name may in fact be a topographic name for someone who lived near a fish weir on a river, from the Old English term fisc-gear ‘fish weir’.

Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a fisherman, Yiddish fisher, German Fischer.

Irish: translation of Gaelic Ó Bradáin ‘descendant of Bradán’, a personal name meaning ‘salmon’. See Braden. Mistranslation of French Poissant, meaning ‘powerful’, but understood as poisson ‘fish’ (see Poisson), and assimilated to the more frequent English name.

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