When Elizabeth Taliaferro Fitz Hugh was born about 1784, in Virginia, United States, her father, Dʀ. Wɪʟʟɪᴀᴍ Cᴏʟᴇᴠɪʟʟᴇ Fɪᴛᴢʜᴜɢʜ Sʀ., was 31 and her mother, Ann Hay Taliaferro, was 20. She married Tʜᴏᴍᴀs Hᴀʀʀɪsᴏɴ about 1797, in Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She died after 1850.
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The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
On June 25, 1788 Virginia became the 10th state.
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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