This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: FISHER/FISCHER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/jdB.2ACI/546 Message Board Post: I am searching for parents of William FISHER b. 28 Mar 1801 in Myerstown, then Dauphin County. William married Elizabeth SHAEFFER in 1822, daughter of Jacob SHAEFFER. This SHAEFFER family had been located in Berks County well before the marriage of William & Elizabeth, so it is likely that he had left the Myerstown area before 1822. William was known to later generations as "The Englishman" and this has led recent generations to believe that he was of English origins but I am sceptical of this. Can anyone offer a candidate family in this time frame? Many thanks!!