When Annie V. Fitz was born on 9 April 1874, in Antrim Township, Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Jerome Cornelius Fitz, was 24 and her mother, Ann Law, was 23. She died on 16 June 1875, in Waynesboro, Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 1, and was buried in Rouzerville, Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States.
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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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