Hitchen Family History
Hitchen Name Meaning
from a pet form of Hitch.in
parts of the West Midlands this may have been a patronymic from
Hitch, from an old genitive ending.habitational name
from Hitchin in Hertfordshire, which is derived from the dative plural
of the old tribal name Hicce, which itself may be derived from
a Celtic river name meaning ‘dry’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Hitchen
Name Distribution of Hitchen Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Hitchen families
 608 - 1,214  203 - 607 |
 1 - 202  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hitchen families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Hitchen census records
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Hitchen Family Origin
Hitchen Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Hitchen Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Hitchen Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Hitchen census records
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Military Service by Hitchen
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