When Hugh Fitton was born in 1418, in Gawsworth, Cheshire, England, his father, Lawrence Fitton, was 43 and his mother, Dame Agnes Hesketh, was 44. He died on 16 July 1449, in his hometown, at the age of 31.
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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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