Brief Life History of Howard H
When Howard H Fitch was born in 1882, in New York, United States, his father, William H Fitch, was 26 and his mother, Fannie Fitch, was 26. He lived in Savannah, Savannah, Wayne, New York, United States in 1900 and Savannah, Wayne, New York, United States in 1910.
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Sources (2)
- Howard H Fitch in household of Hutchinson Fitch, "United States Census, 1900"
- Howard H Fitch in household of William H Fitch, "United States Census, 1910"
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World Events (8)
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
Age 0
1886
Age 4
1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment
Age 31
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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