I had a relative with this name, a Quaker name, they are buried in OH. Apparently it was in the discussion to have me carry on the PFish tradition back in my pre-birth era.

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“As a youth, Fish shipped to the Pacific on a whaler, becoming its captain at the age of 21. He soon realized that fortune lay in selling whale oil, not in harvesting it.” Preserved fish the whale oil merchant

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I first saw that because I lived near the cemetery were he's buried. Hard not to laugh even at that place. There are many funny Quaker names btw. quakerpodcast.com/weird-quaker...

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Not that I look at this kind of thing a lot, but it seems some measure of how much time (and possibly knowledge) people have on their hands that people have been working on this one page since 2008?!? en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...

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A similar story to the Heal family (my own, in fact), with their numerous scions named Jellied.

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