Brief Life History of Ellen
When Ellen Fitton was born in 1523, in Gawsworth, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Edward Fitton, was 20 and her mother, Anne Warburton, was 16. She died after 1552.
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Name Meaning
English (mainly Lancashire):
from Middle English fiton, fittin ‘lie, falsehood’, for a lier or cheat.
possibly a habitational name from Fitton Hall in Leverington, Cambridgeshire, named in Anglo-Scandinavian as ‘settlement by the meadow-land’, from Old English tūn + Old Norse fit, a term denoting grassland on the bank of a river.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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