Hugh Fitch

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁵⁶¹
The published Parish Registers of St. Albans Abbey show that Zachary Fitch of Reading once lived here. The registers begin in 1558. They show a William Fitch who had a son, Hugh, baptized 14 Mar 1563/64. Hugh Fitch married, 13 Sep 1585, Anne Smith who was baptized 25 Sep 1567, the daughter of John and Joane (Roise) Smith. Hugh was buried 14 Apr 1620. The children of Hugh and Anne Fitch were: Mary, baptized 12 Feb 1586/87; John, baptized 13 Oct 1588; Jeremie, baptized 25 Jan 1589/90; Zacherie, baptized 16 Jan 1591/92; Anne, baptized 6 Jan 1593/94, died 26 Apr 1698.

Zacherie Fitch likey the emigrant to New England, had by wife Mary the children recorded in St. Albans: John, baptized 8 Apr 1621; Jeremie, baptized5 May 1622; Mary, baptized 7 Sep 1623; Zacherie, baptized 25 Jun 1626; Thomas, baptized 26 Oct 1628; a child baptized 21 Dec 1630; Sarah, baptized 20 Jun 1632/37; Robert, baptized 4 Mar 1634/35, who was perhaps the infant who was buried 18 Feb 1636/37.

The family then disappear from te St. Albans registers, and it probable that they came to New England in 1637, as Zacherie the father was admitted freeman 7 Sept 1638, this being the first record of him in the Americas.

On a bond signed about 1620 by Zacherie Fitch of St. Albans, his occupation is given as glover.

~The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Oct. 1903 pp. 415-416

Hugh married Anne Smyth, daughter of John Smyth and Joane Roise, on 13 Sep 1585 in St. Albans Abbey, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England ⁵⁶¹.^,647 (Anne Smyth was born about 1567 in St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England ⁵⁶¹, baptized on 24 Sep 1567 in St. Albans Abbey, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England ^561,647 and died on 2 May 1638 in Hertfordshire, England.)