Brief Life History of Blanche E.
When Blanche E. Fitch was born in 1869, in Bristol, Lincoln, Maine, United States, her father, Daniel Webster Fitch, was 34 and her mother, Fanny S Hysom, was 30. She married Walter H. Fossett on 4 January 1891. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Portland Ward 2, Portland, Cumberland, Maine, United States in 1910. She died in November 1915, in South Portland, Cumberland, Maine, United States, at the age of 46.
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- Blanch E Fossett in household of Walter A Fossett, "United States Census, 1900"
- Blanche Fitch in entry for Frank Brown Fossett, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Blanch E Fossett in household of Walter H Fossett, "United States Census, 1910"
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1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1870 · Giving all the right to vote
The Act was an extension of the Fifteenth Amendment, that prohibited discrimination by state offices in voter registration. It also helped empower the President with the authority to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States. Being the first of three Enforcement Acts passed by the Congress, it helped combat attacks on the suffrage rights of African Americans.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
Name Meaning
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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Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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