The fitzpatrick Surname

fitzpatrick Name Meaning and History

Irish: occasionally this may be a genuine Anglo-Norman French patronymic (see Fitzgerald) from the personal name Patrick, but more often it has been adopted as an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Pádraig (see Kilpatrick).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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fitzpatrick Family Facts

Emigration Year (AU)Emigration Year (US)Name Distribution (UK)Name Distribution (Scotland)Place of Origin Ports of Departure Occupations

Distribution of fitzpatrick Families in the US in 1920

Number of fitzpatrick families

770-1538

257-769

1-256

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FITZPATRICK Tommie Jean 1933 1998 our mother	t42FlowerM_DenCoTX	0
Ellen Brannon&James Fitzpatrick	chrissyfitz53	3
Belturbet Fitzpatricks	pfitzpa1_1	14
Trowbridge & Widner, KS. 1899-1905	Alaskagal69	0
FITZPATRICK	patriciafuller143	5
Catherine FITZPATRICK m Joseph SHEA 1904 Bayonne, Hudson CO,NJ	wsullivw	0
Looking for Descendants of David Fitzpatrick of Phila, Pa	Ed (Pat) Logan	2
Kipp, Fitzpatrick,	JoWelch84	0
William Henry Fitzpatrick	eisgrig3	0
fitzpatrick	patriciafuller143	0

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