Elisha Fisher in Comber

[Sammy An]

Hi, I have been trying to find info on my great grandfather in Comber for 3 years and have gotten nowhere and am now going slightly mad with it all.

His name was Elisha Fisher he married someone I believe was called Elizabeth in 1906 in Belfast having moved there around 1900 or so I've been told.
He died in Belfast in 1948 around the age of 80 again just what I've been told as there is no age at death on his Gravestone.

He had 4 daughters all now dead, they were Annabella who was the eldest but I don't know when she was born, Ellen who died in 2001 and my grandmother Mary born 25/02.1916 who died in 2003 all were born in Belfast as far as I know.

I have no info on any of them at all, and cannot find a birth for my great grandfather Elisha in Comber.

Any help would be very very very much appreciated.

Sammy.

[kingskerswell]

Sammy,
           Cannot find the birth but Elisha Fisher married Elizabeth Boyd in St. Annes Church of Ireland on 19 Dec 1906.

Regards

[Sammy An]

Oh thankyou so much for that it's a big help.
I don't suppose it had any ages or parents names with that info?
Sammy.

[kingskerswell]

Sammy,
          Have just found the fathers' names - Thomas Fisher and Samuel Boyd.

Regards

[Sammy An]

Thanks very much for taking time to do that for me, very much appreciated.

Have a good Christmas

Sammy.

[murney]

Someone posted a message on Ancestry boards looking for the death of Christopher Southern and Ellen Fisher Southern.  She appears to be the daughter of Elisha Fisher and Elizabeth Boyd and somebody posted the death of Elisha from cemetery records :

Name of deceased Elisha Fisher
Last place of residence 51 Lisburn Road (44 Edith Street)
Age 62 Years
Date of death 9 July 1948
Date of burial 12 July 1948
Cemetery Dundonald Cemetery
Grave section and number C5 603
Burial type Earth Burial

Giving his birth c. 1886.

It looks like Elisha and Elizabeth went to Scotland after their marriage and Ellen was born there in 1907.  They were back in Belfast c. 1910/1911 where their son Samuel Arthur was born.  Their daughter Anne Boyd Fisher (Annabella?) was born in 1918 in Belfast.

You can find them on the 1911 census living in 30 Edith Street (Pottinger), Down) on this website : In order to find them put 'Elesha' down as the surname and 'Fisher' as the Christian name.

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Down/Pottinger__part_of_/Edith_Street/220949/

Elizabeth's father Samuel and her brother William James are living with them as 'boarders'.

Living next door in 29 Edith Street is a Mary Fisher who may be Elisha's mother.

[Sammy An]

Thankyou very much for that it's made a big difference, and I think you are right about his mother Mary next door.

Have a great Christmas

Sammy.

[kingskerswell]

Sammy,
           Speculating that the lady next door may have been Elisha's mother and as she had been married for 47 years then I have found a marriage near Cumber on 4 Feb 1865 Thomas Fisher married Mary Beattie in Ballygowan Presbyterian Church, Parish of Killinchy, District of Newtownards.

Regards

[kingskerswell]

Sammy,
           Speculating that the lady next door may have been Elisha's mother and as she had been married for 47 years then I have found a marriage near Cumber on 4 Feb 1865 Thomas Fisher married Mary Beattie in Ballygowan Presbyterian Church, Parish of Killinchy, District of Newtownards.

Regards