Folks I had an inquiry from a friend regard FIZT and asked my State Library for a look up, below is the answer, its quite interesting, I had always assume anyone with a name say like Fitzhugh was of Irish (Rep. of), but this peears to be soley a name add on such as Mac or Mc. Gordon Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 11:21 AM Subject: Re: Fitz > According to Hanks' Dictionary of American Family Names: > > Fitz > 1. English: generally said to be from Anglo-Norman French fi(t)z "son" > used originally to distinguish a son from a father bearing the same > personal name. > 2. It could also be a habitational name from a place in Shropshire > called Fitz, recorded in 1194 as Fittesho, from an Old English personal > name, Fitt + hoh "hill spur" > 3. In one family at least, it is an altered form of English Fitch > 4. German: unexplained. Possibly from a vernacular pet form of the > person name Vincent. > > personal note: son in French is "fils"; Latin "filius" > > Black's Surnames of Scotland sheds a bit more light with additional > details: > > FITZ. This NF. word signifies "son", from Latin filius (>Fr. fils). The > old spelling is usually fiz, and another but rarer form is filtz. The > spelling with t was an attempt to preserve the old sound of NF. z, which > was pronounced ts. Like Mac in Gaelic it is prefixed to Norman names to > signify descent. A later application of it has been to denote the many > natural sons of royalty, as in Fitzclarence, Fitzjames, Fitzroy, > Fitzwilliam. > > , >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> Scanned MGW1 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.437 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2792 - Release Date: 04/05/10 06:32:00