Fitz Family History
Fitz Name Meaning
English: generally said to be from Anglo-Norman French
fi(t)z ‘son’, used originally to distinguish a son from a
father bearing the same personal name.It could also
be a habitational name from a place in Shropshire called Fitz,
recorded in 1194 as Fittesho, from an Old English personal
name, Fitt, + hoh ‘hill spur’.In one
family at least, it is an altered form of English Fitch.German: unexplained. Possibly from a vernacular pet form of
the personal name Vincent.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Fitz
Name Distribution of Fitz Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Fitz families
 22 - 42  8 - 21 |
 1 - 7  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Fitz families
|
4 - 5 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Fitz census records
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Fitz Family Origin
Fitz Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Fitz Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Fitz census records
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Military Service by Fitz
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