Fitch (surname)
| Fitch | |
|---|---|
| Family name | |
 Fitch family coat of arms | |
| Pronunciation | Fitch |
| Region of origin | England |
| Related names | Fytche, Ffytche, Fitche, Fitcher, Fittje, and Fitchy |
| Footnotes: [1] | |
Fitch is a family name of Old French origin. Like most ancient surnames, there are a number of possible origins to the name. It may originate from the Old French word fissell meaning "an iron-pointed implement".[1] It may also derive from William de Gernon who inherited the barony of Stansted Mountfitchet in Essex, England and took the surname "de Montifitchet". His ancestors eventually shortened the name first to "Fitche" and then to "Fitch".[2]
Related names include Fitchet, Fitchell, Fitchen and Fitchett, as well as others. Earliest records show the name and derivatives occurring from the 12th century onwards. It may also have been used as a personal name.[1]
People
- Alan Fitch (1915–1985), British Labour Party politician
- Albert Fitch Bellows (1829–1883), American landscape painter
- Alfred Fitch, American Olympian
- Alice Underwood Fitch (1862-1936), American painter
- Alison Fitch, New Zealand Olympian
- Alva Revista Fitch, U.S. Army Lieutenant General
- Anne Fitch, illustrator of New Belgium Brewery's beer labels
- Ashbel P. Fitch (1848–1904), New York politician
- Aubrey Fitch, U.S. Naval Admiral
- Asa Fitch, American entomologist
- Asa Fitch (Representative) (1765–1843), U.S. congress representative
- Benjamin Franklin Fitch (1877-1956), author of the concept of containers in US of America before the Second World War [3]
- Bill Fitch, American college and professional basketball coach
- Brian T. Fitch, French-Canadian nonfiction author
- Charles Fitch, American preacher
- Chauncey Fitch Cleveland (1799–1887), US politician
- Clyde Fitch, American playwright
- Dennis E. Fitch, NASA safety consultant
- Ed Fitch (born 1937), occult author and Wiccan High Priest
- Ezra Fitch, New York lawyer and cofounder of Abercrombie & Fitch, a clothing company
- Frederic Brenton Fitch, American logician and inventor of Fitch-style calculus
- George Ashmore Fitch, YMCA Administrative Director
- George B. Fitch, American businessman, politician, and Olympic organizer
- George Helgesen Fitch (1877–1915), American author, humorist, and journalist
- Gerald Fitch, U.S. basketball player
- Graham Fitch, Pianist
- Graham N. Fitch, United States Representative and Senator
- Henry D. Fitch (1767–1849), early settler of San Diego, California
- Henry Sheldon Fitch, American herpetologist
- Horatio Fitch, American olympian
- Jabez W. Fitch, Democratic lieutenant-governor of Ohio from 1878 to 1880
- James Marston Fitch, historic preservationist
- James P. Fitch, notable in the early history of the Boy Scouts of America
- Janet Fitch, American author
- John Fitch (disambiguation), various people named John Fitch
- Jon Fitch, American mixed martial arts fighter
- Joshua Girling Fitch (1824–1903), English educationalist
- Joyce Fitch, Australian tennis player
- LeRoy Fitch, officer during the American Civil War
- Lucy Fitch Perkins, (1865–1937), US children's author
- Marc Fitch, English historian and philanthropist
- Nathaniel Fitch (born 1958), former heavyweight boxer
- Noël Riley Fitch, author
- Ralph Fitch, British merchant-explorer of India and Burma
- Ralph Bruce Fitch, New Brunswick politician
- Rodney Fitch, an English designer
- Sheree Fitch, Canadian children's author
- Thomas Fitch (disambiguation), various people named Thomas Fitch
- Val Logsdon Fitch, Nobel Prize-winning nuclear physicist
- W. Tecumseh Fitch, evolutionary psychologist
- Walter M. Fitch (1929–2011), American evolutionary biologist
- Walter Hood Fitch (1817–1892), Scottish botanical artist
- Zarnell Fitch (born 1983), American football player
- as well as one of the sailors lost on the U.S.S. Arizona on December 7, 1941
See also
References
- 1 2 3 P. H. Reaney (10 October 1991). A Dictionary of English Surnames. Taylor & Francis. p. 1172. ISBN 978-0-415-05737-0. Retrieved 30 October 2012.
- ↑ Richard Coleman Witters (17 December 2009). Ancestral Roots and Descendants of Charles Robert Looney and LaVanchie Margaret Cool and the Families of Ackley, Bradford, Burbank, Cool, Crow, Dwight, Fitch, Flint, Goodwin, Granger, Hoar, Kuhl, Looney, Mason, Partridge, Peck, Wark, and Whiting. Xlibris Corporation. pp. 135–. ISBN 978-1-4415-2936-7. Retrieved 30 October 2012.
- ↑ Lewandowski, Krzysztof (2015). "Benjamin Franklin Fitch the forgotten developer of the container system in US of America.". Global Journal of Human Social Science. H, Interdisciplinary. 15 (8): 39–48. ISSN 0975-587X.
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