When Mary Fitch was born on 17 May 1751, in Windham, Windham, Connecticut, United States, her father, Eleazer Fitch, was 30 and her mother, Zerviah Wales, was 31. She married John Dingley on 12 April 1769, in Windham, Windham, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died in May 1772, in Windham, Windham, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 21, and was buried in Windham, Windham, Connecticut, United States.
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from Old French fiche, perhaps ‘pointed implement for fixing or transfixing something or someone’ (such as a lance?), a derivative of Old French fichier ‘to fix, fasten, pin on, stick into, pierce’. Compare Modern French fiche ‘peg, pin’. Reaney remarks that ‘as Hugh Malet is said to have abandoned for a time his nickname ‘little hammer’ in favor of Fichet (see Mallet ), fiche must have been used of a pointed weapon, a spear or lance, and Fitch and Fitchett (see Fitchett ) of a spearman or a knight famous for his exploits with the lance’. Use of Fiche as a personal name is possibly implied by diminutive personal name forms such as Fechet (see Fitchett ) and Fechel, attested in Fechel de Fercalahn, 1225–50. The latter is perhaps the source of the now extinct English surname Fetchell.
occasionally a variant of Fitz .
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