Fisher Family History
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Fisher
Name Distribution of Fisher Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Fisher families
 2,468 - 4,933  823 - 2,467 |
 1 - 822  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Fisher families
|
494 - 986 165 - 493 |
1 - 164 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Fisher census records
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Fisher Family Origin
Fisher Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Fisher Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Fisher Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Fisher census records
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