William married Jessie Z. Pell on 27 Nov 1918 in Virginia, USA. Jessie was born in 1898 in West Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Robert William Fisher was born on 20 Jul 1921 in Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia, USA; died on 25 Oct 1992.
2. William F. Fisher was born on 26 Apr 1926 in Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia, USA; died on 13 Oct 1994.

Ferdinand married Eva Mathilda Fox on 23 Oct 1888 in Fulda, Enoch Township, Noble County, Ohio, USA. Eva (daughter of Friedrich Fuchs Fox and Sybilla Singer) was born on 17 Aug 1868 in Jefferson, Noble County, Ohio, USA; died on 25 Mar 1962 in Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia, USA; was buried in Mount Calvary Cemetery, Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The death certificate of Joseph Fisher states that his father Frank Fisher was born in Kora, Germany. (The writing is very legible.)

After the village of Fulda, Ohio was laid out in the mid 1850s, Francis Fisher bought a lot and erected the first house. He ran a saloon, which his wife continuted after his death. The family was also engaged in brewing.

In 1860, 30 year old brewer Francis Fisher lived in Enoch Twp., Noble Co., Ohio with his wife Margaret and their three young children, Margaret (3), Elizabeth (2), and John (1). Neighboring families in the census were Anton Kress and Maurice Hohman.

At the time of the 1870 census, Francis Fisher (42) was still living in Enoch Twp. with his wife Margaret (33) and children Elizabeth (11), John (10), Ferdinand (8), Kathrina (6), Joseph (4), and Barbara (1). Francis Fisher's occupation was "brewer and cooper." (A cooper is a barrel-maker.) Francis was born in Bavaria, his wife in Virginia and the children in Ohio. The oldest three children attended school. The family that preceded the Fisher household in the census was that of Eve Clever [Kluber]. The next dwelling in the census was vacant, followed by 23 year old shoemaker August Dimmerling, who lived alone.

In 1910, the census taker who enumerated the household of Francis Fisher's son John appears to have misunderstood the census directions. Although both John Fisher his wife Mary were born in Ohio, he wrote "1847." He indicated that John was a naturalized citizen, but Mary was not a citizen. The census taker made this mistake for everyone on in the district whose parents were of foreign birth. It appears that the immigration information refers to the householders' parents.

Franz married Margaret Hupp on 28 Oct 1856 in Ohio, USA. Margaret (daughter of Johannes Heinrich Hupp and Maria Anna Franziska Jahn) was born on 10 Oct 1838 in Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia, USA; died in 1897 in Fulda, Enoch Township, Noble County, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Event(s):
Birth:
Christening: 12 JUL 1837 Katholisch, Ketsch, Mannheim, Baden
Death:
Burial:

Parents:
Father: JOSEPH FUCHS <
Mother: KATHARINA ROHR
Messages:
Extracted birth or christening record for the locality listed in the record. The source records are usually arranged chronologically by the birth or christening date.

Source Information:
Batch No.: Dates: Source Call No.: Type: Printout Call No.: Type:
C949841 1785 - 1875 1052584

Friedrich married Sybilla Singer on 21 Jan 1862 in Fulda, Enoch Township, Noble County, Ohio, USA. Sybilla (daughter of Franz Joseph Jakob Singer and Maria Magdalena Zwick) was born on 6 Feb 1841 in Bruchweiler-Bärenbach, Pfalz, Bayern; died on 26 Oct 1928 in Fulda, Enoch Township, Noble County, Ohio, USA; was buried in Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception Cemetery, Fulda, Enoch Township, Noble County, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Johannes married Maria Anna Franziska Jahn on 8 Jan 1838 in Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia, USA. Maria was born on 1 Feb 1813 in Hessen; died on 15 May 1890 in Enoch Township, Noble County, Ohio, USA; was buried in Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception Cemetery, Fulda, Enoch Township, Noble County, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Franz Jacob Singer immigrated with his family to the United States in April 1843 on board the packet ship La Duchesse d?Orleans. Jacob and Magdelena already had three children, and Magdelena was pregnant with a fourth child when they left for America. While attempting to board ship in Le Havre, France, they were delayed because of a question regarding their origin and citizenship. (In 1843 "Germany" did not exist, as we know it now. It was a conglomeration of independent states.) As a result of the postponement of the family's travel plans, and Magdelena's advancing pregnancy, Jacob and Magdelena's daughter Catherine was born during the Atlantic crossing on 20 Mar 1843. Fellow passengers took up a collection and presented the Singers with the equivalent of about $200 to celebrate Catherine's birth. La Duchesse d'Orleans arrived in New York on 22 Apr 1843. The route by which the family traveled to Ohio is not known, but Jacob Singer eventually brought his family to Monroe County, Ohio. He used the $200 given to him by his fellow passengers along with other money to purchase a tract of several hundred acres of land in what is now Lewisville, Ohio on Willis Creek. He turned this area into a prosperous farm.
Despi te its name, the Duchesse d'Orleans was an American ship, according to Robert Greenhalgh Albion, Square-Riggers on Schedule: The New York Sailing Packets to England, France, and the Cotton Ports (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1938), p. 286. She was built in New York in 1838 by Webb & Allen, and from 1838 to 1852 belonged of the Havre Union Packet Line, and belonged to the Baltimore registry in 1866. Her measurements were as follows:
ton nage: 798 (old custom house measurement)
length: 155' 6"
beam: 34' 2"
depth of hold: 20' 6"

The master, from 1838 to 1849, was Addison Richardson (d. Brooklyn 1872). Ibid., p. 340. The Duchesse d?Orleans was still in service as late as 1891. White, James Terry, The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women who are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time (J.T. White, 1895), vol. 2, p. 263.

Gi ven that La Duchesse d'Orleans is described as a "ship", it is important to recall the distinction between sloops, schooners, brigs and ships. The sloop, which was generally the smallest type, had a single mast, supporting a large fore-and-aft sail. The schooner likewise had fore-and-aft sails, generally with two masts but occasionally, even then, with three. The brig had two masts, but was square-rigged; that is, each mast supported several sails, which crossed from side to side of the vessel instead of lying fore-and-aft. Finally, the full-rigged ship had three masts, all of which were square-rigged. The nautical purists are careful not to use the word "ship" as a synonym for vessel, when brigs or schooners might be included in the term. A fifth type, the bark, began to be common in the 'thirties [1830's]. It had three masts, the first two of which were square-rigged and the third fore-and-aft. In size, it usually fitted in between the brig and the ship. On the whole, the relative size of the four main classes ran up-wards from the sloop through the schooner and brig to the ship. There was considerable overlapping, however, for the largest vessels in a lower category were generally of greater tonnage than the smallest in the next higher grade. Albion, p. 13.

A "packet" does not represent a "type" of vessel, but its function ? i.e., a vessel that sails a set course on a regular schedule. In this
respect the packet differs from the "transient" or "tramp" (which picks
up cargoes wherever it can find them and carries them to whatever port business at the moment directs, with no set course of predetermined schedule) and from the "regular trader" (which limit itself to trade between two or more particular ports, but follows no fixed schedule). In order to maintain a regular schedule, more than one ship (all true packets were full-rigged ships) was required, and packets were organized into "lines" (the origin of the term "liner"); the earliest true line was the "Black Ball" line between New York and Liverpool, and the first sailings took place in January 1818. The Havre Union Line, to which the Duchesse d'Orleans belonged, was initiated in 1823.

Franz married Maria Magdalena Zwick on 2 Oct 1834 in Bruchweiler-Bärenbach, Pfalz, Bayern. Maria (daughter of Franz Zwick and Margaretha Erhard) was born on 9 Jun 1815 in Bruchweiler-Bärenbach, Pfalz; died on 2 Jan 1896 in Fulda, Enoch Township, Noble County, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]