Fish Family History
- Fish Name Meaning
- English: from Middle English fische, fish ‘fish’, a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman or fish seller, or a nickname for someone thought to resemble a fish. Americanized spelling of German and Jewish Fisch.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 2,025,847 Historical Documents with Fish on Ancestry
- 471,389 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 287,463 Census and Voter Lists
- 46,579 Military Records
- 27,895 Immigration Records
- 1,192,521 Member Trees
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Number of Fish families
 879 - 1,755  294 - 878 |
 1 - 293  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Fish families
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75 - 147 26 - 74 |
1 - 25 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Fish census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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