When Hugh Fitz Randolph was born on 22 June 1727, in Piscataway Township, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States, his father, Jonathan Fitz Randolph, was 35 and his mother, Mary Bonham, was 35. He died in 1728, in Woodbridge Township, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 1.
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English: from Anglo-Norman French fi(t)z ‘son’ (from Latin filius), used originally to distinguish a son from a father bearing the same personal name and then conventionalized as a hereditary surname, or short for a surname of which fiz ‘son’ was the first element, for example Fitzhenry and Fitzroy .
Altered form of English Fitch .
German: from a vernacular pet form of the personal name Vinzenz (see Vincent ) or Vitus (see Vito , compare Veit ). Compare also Fietz .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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