The History of the Fitzhugh Family
In Two Volumes
by
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WILLIAM FITZHUGH,
THE IMMIGRANT
1651-1701
FOREWORD
So much has been written about William Fitzhugh that it is difficult to write about him again without merely repeating what has been said elsewhere. The following draws freely on all the known texts which refer to William, in order to fill in the theme of this family history. Some important new discoveries and insights made by the author are revealed. The reader is referred for more detail to some of the more lengthy volumes included in the references in the footnotes and endnotes.
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n a land only partially settled some fifty years earlier, William Fitzhugh1 chose to make his home far from the civilised comforts of
William Fitzhugh was baptised on January 10, 1651,i the son2 of Henry Fitzhugh of Bedford, a Woolen-Draper who was Mayor of Bedford in 1649 and whose vicissitudes were described in the previous pages. William was, as was normal in those times, one of a large family. He was one of three sons, with five older sisters. His brother Henry was a year older, baptised on April 28, 1650 at
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This book traces the history of the Fitzhugh Family of Bedfordshire, England from the first Hugh and his wife Joyce, who were living in 1223 and from whom the family name derives, down to William Fitzhugh the Immigrant (1651-1701) who founded the Fitzhugh Family of Virginia. For the first four centuries it draws upon the work of the late Terrick V. H. FitzHugh, a noted genealogist. The latter pages of the book continue from William’s son John in an unbroken line to the present author. There are 509 pages, 152,000 words, 778 footnotes and endnotes, a synoptic summary, 21 pages of family trees, 14 maps, 16 illustrations, and 47 photographs. A total of eleven Appendices discuss subjects such as the correct Coat of Arms of the Family, the Fitzhugh China Pattern, family sites in Bedfordshire, and the relationship of our Family to the Barons FitzHugh, the Magna Carta, and other Fitzhugh families. A full index is provided.
About the Author
Henry A. Fitzhugh PhD was born in Texas in 1944. After graduating from MIT and Imperial College, London University he moved to London permanently in 1970. This gave him a perfect opportunity to build on the family history he knew from his home working with the help of Terrick V. H. FitzHugh, his ninth cousin once removed from the English Branch of the Family. Between them, and from all the archives available throughout the UK and USA, they pieced together for the entire lineage the circumstances, social history, and the reasons behind the emigration of William, known as William the Immigrant, to Virginia Colony around 1671, there to found the Fitzhugh Family of Virginia. Thirty years’ work of the author with three lifetimes’ work concentrating the English Branch has gone into this history. Henry Fitzhugh also co-authored and updated the republication of Terrick FitzHugh’s work How to Write Your Family History. With his wife, Rosemary Jeffreys, he has written a history of their Georgian home, 56 Argyle Street.