When Elsie Laura Fitzwater was born on 5 April 1895, in Montague, Siskiyou, California, United States, her father, Charles Edmund Fitzwater, was 32 and her mother, Margaret Maggie Ellen WOODSON, was 23. She had at least 1 son with Fred Melvin Wheaton. She lived in Marshfield, Coos, Oregon, United States in 1930 and Election Precinct 34 Fat Elk, Coos, Oregon, United States in 1940. She died on 3 November 1973, in Coquille, Coos, Oregon, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States.
Irish: altered form of Fitzwalter, a patronymic from Anglo-Norman French fi(t)z ‘son’ (see Fitz ) + the personal name Walter , meaning ‘son of Walter’.
History: This is the name of a family of Norman origin, descended from Godfrey, Count of Brionne (died c. 1010). Godfrey's grandson, Richard FitzGilbert, accompanied William the Conqueror and was made Lord of Clare. His great-grandson was Robert FitzWalter, one of the barons who guaranteed the Magna Carta in 1215.
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