Fitton Family History
- Fitton Name Meaning
- nickname from Middle English fitten ‘lying’, ‘deceit’ (of unknown origin). possibly a habitational name from Fitton Hall in Cambridgeshire, named in Anglo-Scandinavian as ‘settlement (Old English tun) on the fit (Old Norse fit)’, a term denoting grassland on the bank of a river.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 308,289 Historical Documents with Fitton on Ancestry
- 117,169 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 48,116 Census and Voter Lists
- 4,225 Military Records
- 4,639 Immigration Records
- 134,140 Member Trees
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Number of Fitton families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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