60 Generations

1. Gibica DE BURGUNDY was born about 310 in Burgundy, Marne, France
2. Godomar DE BURGUNDY
3. Giolahaire Bebicca DE BURGUNDY
4. Gundicaire DE BURGUNDY
5. Gunderic DE BURGUNDY
6. Chilperic II King of Burgundy DE BOURGOGNE
7. St. Clothilde DE BOURGOGNE
8. Clovis I "The Great"(Clodovic)(Chlodwig) MEROVING KING OF THE SALIAN FRANKS
9. Clotaire I, MEROVING KING OF SOISSONS, ORLEANS, FRANCE, KING OF THE FRANKS
10. Charibert I KING OF PARIS
11. Saint Bertha, Queen Berthe (Bertha) (Aldeberge) OF KENT



Eadbald of Kent

12. King Eadbald OF KENT
13. Ermifred/Eormenred KENT
14. Æthelberht of Kent ASV SACHSEN (SAXEN) WENDEN
15. Billung VON WENDEN
16. Dobiogera VON WENDEN
17. Wernikind/Warnechin VON WETTIN
18. Lord Bruno I
19. Count Bruno II VON WETTIN SAXON ERGEN
20. Bruno III VON WETTIN Duke of Saxony
21. Ludolph HERZOG VON SACHSEN The Great
22. Otto THE ILLUSTRIOUS
23. Heinrich (Henry) I Emperor HENRY THE FOWLER, KING OF GERMANY
24. Adelaide HENRY THE FOWLER, KING OF GERMANY
25. Otto I THE GREAT Holy Roman Emperor
26. Gerberga QUEEN OF FRANCE
27. Alberade DE LORRAINE
28. Hugh I DE GOURNAY
29. HUGH DE GOURNAY
30. Raimond Renaud Roucy DE GOURNAY
31. Duke Robert III de Normandie, Duke of NormnadieHugh DE GOURNAY
32. Sir. William de Montfitchet Hugh DE GOURNAY
33. Baron Robert (Geron) DE MONTFITCHET
34. Sir William DE MONTFITCHET Lord of Stanstead Mountfitchet
35. Sir Gilbert DE MONTFITCHET Lord of Rise; Withernick
36. Sir Richard DE MONTFITCHET Lord of Stanstead Mountfitchet
37. Richard DE MONTFITCHET
38. Roger DE MONTFITCHET
39. John DE MONTFITCHET was born in 1294 in Fitche Castle, Widdington, He tired of the prefix, 'Mont,' dropped it and spelled his name John Fitche
40. William FITCH
41. Thomas FITCH Sr.
42. William FITCH - William was born about 1400 in County Essex, England, some fifty miles due north of London. He is listed in a court record in 1428 as William Fecche and in 1435 as William Ficche and in 1436 as William Fycche. He lived in Bonhunt, later called Wicken Bonhunt when the two manors were combined into a town. He died in early 1466 and he left the two acres he owned to his son and heir John Fytche.
43. John FITCH - 1435  Fitche Castle, Widdington, Essex, England - In 1467, John was referred to as being `thirty years and more.' This would place his birth in the early to mid 1430s. He would have been born in Wicken, Essex.
    He was married in the early 1460s and his wife was named Juliana. His son, Thomas was born in 1465, so he was married at least before that time.
44. Thomas FITCH
45. Roger FITCH - ROGER FYTCHE
    Roger, the youngest son and the ancestor of the American Fitch/Fikes family, was born about 1500 at
    Lindsell, Essex.
46. George FITCH
47. Thomas FITCH
48. Thomas FITCH was born 14 Oct 1612 in Bocking, Essex, England and died in 1704 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut at age 92
49. John FITCH 10 Jun 1642 Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut
50. John FITCH/FIKE  29 Sep 1677 Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut
51. John Thomas FITCH/FIKE about 1711 Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut
52. Tyre/Tyery FIKE
53. George Fike
54. George Fikes
55. Martin Luther Fikes
56. William Henderson (Uncle Billy) Fikes
57. Calvin Henderson Fikes
58. Marion Monroe Fikes
59. Billy LaVoyce Fikes
60. Billy LaVoyce Fikes Jr. , Me!

ROGER FYTCHE

ROGER FYTCHE

Roger, the youngest son and the ancestor of the American Fitch family, was born about 1500 at Lindsell, Essex. He married a woman named Margery in the 1520s.
He owned lands in Bocking, Panfield and Lindsell, all a few miles apart. His main home seems to have always been in Bocking, though he was buried at the church in Panfield.
Among his other lands, Roger owned the Chantry of the church at Bocking. He owned various small parcels in Braintree and other towns in this area of Essex County.
Roger died at about age sixty in early 1559. He wrote his will January 7, 1558/9 and it was proved on February 22 of that year. He died in this time frame. He was buried at Panfield and left his house in Bocking to his wife, Margery who was to administer the will.

Most of what is known of his children comes from the will.

RICHARD FYTCHE married Anne and was buried at Bocking June 13, 1603. Their children were Richard, John, William, James and Margaret.

JOHN FYTCHE married Anne Bucks. He was a clothier and merchant.

BARTHOLOMEW FYTCHE was twice married. First, to Alice Ayer in Chelmsford on February 8, 1579/80, and then later to Mary Chamberlain. He was buried at Chelmsford on November 4, 1598. There were no children in the first marriage, but with Mary he had Marie, Thomas and Richard.

THOMAS FYTCHE died July 4, 1596.

WILLIAM FYTCHE married Sarah Egiott on June 17, 1583 and he was buried December 5, 1588. He had one son, William, baptized in 1586 and died in 1597. William was a mercer or clothier in Chelmsford.

GEORGE FYTCHE

ROBERT FYTCHE married a widow, Elizabeth (Tymm) Parker and had a daughter Sara. His will is dated December 18, 1592. He was a farmer.

JOAN FYTCHE married William Kent on September 2, 1596.

MARGARET FYTCHE may have married Thomas Preston.

CLEMENT FYTCHE was buried at Panfield on May 22, 1573.

MARY FYTCHE

THOMAS FITCH - 1580

THOMAS FITCH

Thomas was the eldest child and inherited his father's properties in the town of Edwardstone. He was born about 1580 in Braintree, Essex. Thomas, like his father, was a clothier and merchant. Bocking was the center of the wool making industry in England. He lived in Bocking and married Anne Reve of Gosfield on August 8, 1611. They were married in the church of Saint Mary in Bocking. Anne was a daughter of John Reve or Reeve and Mary Brock. Thomas not only was a merchant and cloth manufacturer, but by 1630 had fairly large holdings in lands around Bocking and Braintree. He died in early 1633. He wrote his will December 11, 1632 and it was proved in court on February 12, 1632/33. He probably died in late December or early January.

Anne never remarried and went with three of her sons, Thomas, Samuel and Joseph to America in 1650. She was still living in Hartford, Connecticut in 1669, but probably died soon afterwards. The above three sons and James Fitch went to America. James in 1638, the others with their mother in 1650. The other sons, Jeremy, John and Nathaniel remained in England. There were three or possibly four daughters as well.

The children were:
THOMAS FITCH was born in Bocking on October 14, 1612. He was married in Bocking on November 1, 1632 to Anne Stacie. He went to America with his mother and brothers in 1650. He settled in Norwalk, Connecticut where he remained for the rest of his life. His great grandson, Thomas Fitch, was Governor of the Connecticut Colony from 1754 to 1766.
JOHN FITCH remained in England where he was a clothier in Braintree. He was a Captain in the Civil War against the King. He died in the Plague of 1666 in Braintree.
JAMES FITCH was born in Bocking December 24, 1622 and went to America. He became a minister. He is our line and is covered in the next section.
NATHANIEL FITCH was born in Bocking on December 26, 1623. He remained in England and died unmarried in late 1648. His will was dated August 15, 1648 and proved May 1, 1649. He was only in his mid twenties at the time.
JEREMY FITCH was born August 5, 1625. He moved to London where he was a merchant. He remained in England all his life.
MARY, ANNE, SARAH FITCH These women along with possibly an Elizabeth were the daughters. Nothing is known of them. They may have remained in England or sailed to America.
REV.

GEORGE FYTCHE

GEORGE FYTCHE
George was born in Bocking in the early 1540s, about 1544 or 1545. Like three of his brothers he was a merchant and clothier. He is referred to as a mercer who was a dealer in fabric and clothing. Bocking was a major center of woolen manufacturing at the time. As Braintree grew as a town, George moved there.
From the 1570s on, George continued to buy land in Braintree, or Branktre as it was then called. He married Joan Thurgood in Little Canfield on September 14, 1574. Joan was a daughter of Nicholas Thurgood of Eisenham, Essex.
In 1598 he bought land in Great Henny in the eastern portion of Essex County. About 1600, George bought lands and moved to Sudbury just across the line in Suffolk County. It appears George opened a more general purpose clothing store in Sudbury.
Joan died about the time of the move to Suffolk County. About 1602, he married Bridget, widow of first John Goss and then of John French. They were married in Edwardstone just east of Sudbury. Bridget died August 29, 1603 and George married another widow, Joane Taylor about 1604.
George died in the spring of 1605. He wrote his will on May 12, 1605 and it was probated in Court on June 18th of that year. He was living in the town of Edwardstone at the time.
George and Joan Thurgood Fytche had five children.

THOMAS FYTCHE the eldest son is our line


GEORGE FYTCHE JR. was born in the 1580s. He died unmarried in 1614.

JOSEPH FYTCHE was born about 1587 and graduated from Cambridge University. He was the first of the family to attend college. He graduated in 1606. I know nothing more of him.

ARTHUR FYTCHE was a child when his father died. He was apprenticed out to learn a trade according to the terms of his father's will.

FRAUNCES FYTCHE seems to be the only daughter. She married James Stracey.

REV. JAMES FITCH

James Fitch was born in Bocking on December 24, 1622. His father died when he was only ten years old. He was left money in the will so that he could go and study at Cambridge. Instead, it seems, he was taken under the wing of Rev. Thomas Hooker of Chelmsford, a friend of Thomas Fytche who was also mentioned in the will. He probably began studying to be a minister at the church in Chelmsford under Hooker. Rev. Hooker decided to go to America and establish a church there.
As a lad of only sixteen, he sailed to America in 1638 with Reverend Hooker. He finished his theological study in Hartford, Connecticut under the Reverend Hooker and Reverend Samuel Stone, also of Bocking, England. A new Church was built in Saybrook, Connecticut and James Fitch was ordained as its first minister in 1646.
On October 1, 1648, James married Abigail Whitfield of nearby Guilford, Connecticut. The ceremony was performed by her father, Reverend Whitfield. Abigail Whitfield was born in August 1622. There is a WHITFIELD FAMILY HISTORY that follows this Fitch History.
James must have told his mother and brothers about America, and in about 1650, Anne Fitch and her sons Thomas, Samuel and Joseph sailed for America to join James.
In 1659, the congregation at Saybrook received permission to establish a new settlement at Norwich, Connecticut and Rev. James Fitch accompanied them as their leader along with Major John Mason.
Just before leaving, Abigail died on September 9, 1659. James and his six children, James II, Abigail, Elizabeth, Hannah, Samuel and Dorothy, went alone to Norwich the following month.
Uncas, the Indian chief made famous by James Fenimore Cooper in The Last of The Mohegans, was the chief who sold the lands of Norwich to Fitch and Mason and the others.
James Fitch married Priscilla Mason, daughter of Major John Mason in October of 1664. This marriage produced eight more children, Daniel, John, Jeremiah, Jabez, Ann, Nathaniel, Joseph and Eleazer.
When King Philip's War began in 1675, Rev. Fitch was instrumental in getting Uncas and the Mohegans and the Pequot Indians to side with the English against King Philip's Narragansett tribes. Their fair dealings with the Indians spared these settlers who were on the very frontier at that time.
In 1695, James founded and settled a new town nearby, Lebanon, Connecticut. He moved there in 1701 when he retired from the church in Norwich. He remained in Lebanon until his death at age eighty on November 18, 1702. He is buried at the churchyard there and his stone remains in the old cemetery.
Priscilla Fitch was alive in 1710 when she sold land that was given her by her father. She died sometime afterwards.

The children by James Fitch and Abigail Whitfield, all born in Saybrook, Connecticut were:
MAJOR JOHN FITCH II, born August 2, 1649, is our line and is covered in the next full section.
ABIGAIL FITCH was born in August 1650. She married Capt. John Mason Jr., son of Major John Mason. They had two children and lived in Norwich.
ELIZABETH FITCH was born in January 1651/52. On September 5, 1674, she married Rev. Edward Taylor. He was a theology student of her father. They were married and then moved to Westfield, Massachusetts. She had eight children, most of whom died young. Elizabeth died in 1689. Edward later remarried with Ruth Wyllis of Hartford, Connecticut.
HANNAH FITCH was born in September of 1653. She married Thomas Meeks of New Haven, Connecticut on June 30, 1679. They lived in Norwich and had nine children.
SAMUEL FITCH was born April 16, 1655. He married Mary Brewster on November 28, 1678. Mary was descended from the Mayflower Pilgrim William Brewster. They lived in Norwich and Preston, Connecticut. Their children were: Mary, Samuel, Hezekiah, Elizabeth, Abigail, Benjamin, John, Jabez and Pelatiah.
DOROTHY FITCH was born in April, 1658. She was the second wife of Nathaniel Bissell of Windsor, Connecticut. They had two children. Dorothy died June 28, 1691.
The following children were by Reverend James Fitch and his second wife, Priscilla Mason. All were born in Norwich, Connecticut.
CAPT. DANIEL FITCH was born August 16, 1665. He married Mary Sherwood of Fairfield, Connecticut. He was active in the Indian Wars and settled near New London, Connecticut at a town called Montville. Their children were: Adonijah, James, Lemuel, Mary and Daniel.
CAPT. JOHN FITCH was born in January of 1667. He lived in Windham, Connecticut and was active in local government. He married Elizabeth Waterman of Norwich on July 10, 1695. John died May 24, 1743 and Elizabeth died June 25, 1751. Children were: Elizabeth, Miriam, Priscilla and John Jr.
CAPT. JEREMIAH FITCH was born about 1670. He moved from Lebanon to Coventry, Connecticut about 1703. He was a soldier, surveyor and town official. He married Ruth Gifford of Norwich. He died in Coventry on May 22, 1736 and Ruth died after 1756. The children were: Jeremiah, Lucy, Ruth, Hannah, Abner, Gideon, Elisha, James, Joseph and Stephen.
REV. JABEZ FITCH was born in April, 1672. He graduated from Harvard in 1694. He became a Fellow at Harvard and then was ordain minister in Ipswich, Massachusetts in 1703. He took over a church in Portsmouth, New Hampshire (then part of Massachusetts) in 1725 and remained there until his death on November 22, 1746. He married Elizabeth Appleton of Ipswich on July 26, 1704. Their children were: Elizabeth, John, James, Margaret, Anne and Mary.
ANNE FITCH was born in April, 1675. She married Lieut. Joseph Bradford of Plymouth. They settled in Norwich and then Lebanon where she died October 17, 1715.
CAPT. NATHANIEL FITCH was born in October of 1679. He operated a grist mill and a fulling mill in Lebanon. He married Ann Abel of Norwich on December 10, 1701. After her death in 1726, he married Mindwell Tisdale of Lebanon on September 17, 1729. He died May 4, 1759 at age seventy-nine. The children by Ann were: Anne, Joshua, Nathan, Nehemiah, James, John, Nathaniel, Mehitable, Elizabeth, Rachel, Abel and Caleb. With Mindwell, he had: Jabez, Ezekiel and Isaac.
JOSEPH FITCH was born in November 1681. He married Sarah Mason in Saybrook and lived in Stonington, Connecticut. She died and he married Ann Whiting of Windham in 1729 and they moved to Lebanon. Joseph died in Windham on May 9, 1741 and Ann died there September 18, 1778. The children by Sarah were: Judith, Sarah, Mason and Joseph. By Ann, he had: Samuel, Eleazer, Azel, Ichabod, Ann and Thomas.
DEACON ELEAZER FITCH was born May 14, 1683. He married his cousin Martha Brown of Swanzey (Swansea), Massachusetts and they lived in Lebanon where he died in 1747. He had no children.

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THOMAS FYTCHE 1465 - 1514

THOMAS FYTCHE

Thomas was born in 1465 in Wicken in Essex. He was three when his father died and ten when his mother died. After reaching age twenty-one, he received the lands left him by his father. He took title in 1487 at the Widdington Court. A year or two later, he married Agnes Algore, probably in 1489 or 1490.
Agnes was born in the nearby parish of Lindsell and came from a well to do family. Her father gave Thomas and Agnes a farm called Bynwodes in 1490. Her parents were Robert and Margaret Algore. By 1497, Thomas had added another twelve acres to his estate and in 1505, he went to court and received the lands left him by his father that were by then in the hands of his step father, Richard Westeley.

Thomas Fitch (Fytche) died at age forty-nine on April 24, 1514 and he is buried in the parish graveyard at St. Mary's in Lindsell. There is today a brass commemorating the family. It depicts Thomas, Agnes, six sons and five daughters. I only have the names of four sons and three daughters. The others must have died before reaching maturity. Agnes died sometime around 1526.

The following is what I know about these children.

RICHARD FYTCHE was the eldest son, born about 1492. He was married twice, first to Ellianor Storke and then to Joane Ashe. He had two children by each wife. Tristram, John, Richard and William. Richard died in 1579.

WILLIAM FYTCHE was born about 1496. He also was twice married. Elizabeth was his first wife and Anne Wiseman his second. He and Elizabeth had Elinor and Mary, and He and Anne had Thomas, William, Francis and one other child. William acquired vast acreage in his lifetime. William died December 20, 1578 at age 82.

THOMAS FYTCHE was born about 1498 and married Margaret Meade. They had three children Thomas, Robert and Margaret.

ROGER FYTCHE

MARGARET, KATHERINE and JOAN FYTCHE were three of the daughters.