Parish records from:-

Colchester St Nicholas

 (Thanks to John Fitch for providing the extracts for this parish)

Baptisms to 1841

  1. 1616/7 18 March, John son of Mosses Fitch

  2. 1619/20 26 March, Ann daughter of Mosses & Ann Fitch

  3. 1621  25 December, Marie daughter of Moses & Anna Fitch

  4. 1624  30 April, Anna daughter of Mosses & Ann Fitch

  5. 1690/1 1 March, Mary daughter of John & Elizabeth Fitch

  6. 1727/8 12 February, Mary daughter of Joseph & Anne Fitch [also recorded at St James]

  7. 1756  4 April, Abraham son of Abraham & Susan Fitch of St Botolph, born 27 Feb

  8. 1761  15 March, Thomas son of Abraham & Susanna Fitch of St Botolph, born 2 Feb

  9. 1795  1 March, James son of James & Mary Fitch, born 16 Feb

  10. 1796  3 July, James son of James & Mary Fitch, born 18 June

  11. 1797  2 December, Elizabeth daughter of James & Mary Fitch, born 1 Dec

  12. 1807  28 June, John Hughes son of Abraham & Sarah Fitch, born 27 Mar 1794

  13. 1807  28 June, Sarah Willis daughter of Abraham & Sarah Fitch, born 27 Jun 1796

  14. 1819 21 March, Sarah Ann daughter of Robert Ward of Stanway, husbandman, & Sarah Fitch of this parish

  15. 1828  27 April, Thomas son of Thomas, hostler & Mary Ann Fitch of this parish

  16. 1832 12 February, John Raynor age 11 son of Sarah Fitch of this parish, single woman

Marriages to 1841 

  1. 1577  18 November, Avis Fitche = Symon Brickman

  2. 1734/5  18 February, Anne Fitch = George Campion [Licence and bond add that G.C. is age 22 bachelor, a baker of Groton in Suffolk, and A.F. age 22 spinster of St Nicholas. The bond is shared with G.C. by Joseph Fitch, barber of Colchester.] 

  3. 1749  29 August, John Bartholomew bachelor of St Leonard = Mary Fitch spinster

  4. 1754  29 October, John Dean widower, weaver = Elizabeth Fitch, spinster.  Witnesses Samuel Stew, Samuel Gould 

  5. 1783  9 June, James Sarls of St Botolph, weaver = Rebeckah Fitch spinster of this parish.  Witnesses Mary Fitch, Samuel Sadler

  6. 1793  27 October, James Fitch bachelor, baker = Mary Nason spinster, both of this parish.  Witnesses Jane Britty, Thomas Ingram

  7. 1796  8 May, Francis Fitch labourer = Sarah Woolner widow.  Witnesses Henry Gusterson, Thomas Ingram

  8. 1798  3 July, Alexander Glass widower, stone mason = Mary Fitch widow, both of this parish [Licence adds that A.G. is 26. The bond is shared with A.G. by John Kempster, stone mason.] Witnesses John Kempster, Susanna Archer

  9. 1806  2 June, John Hughes bachelor = Ann Fitch spinster, both of this parish.  Witnesses Robert Mullen, Ann Fitch

  10. 1839  4 March, John Fitch of full age bachelor shoemaker of St Giles, father Abraham Fitch ropemaker, = Susannah Everitt minor spinster, no occupation given, of this parish, father Jonathan Everitt, mill wright.  Witnesses Abraham Fitch, Mary Everitt, Thomas Ward

 Burials to 1841

  1. 1618  28 October, Moses Fitch

  2. 1623  13 October, Anna Fitch

  3. 1624  2 May, Anna Fitch

  4. 1676  25 March, [blank] Fitcher

  5. 1695  6 April, Peter Fitch; affidavit re burial in wool by Anne Bishop

  6. 1696  14 April, unbaptised child of Peter Fitch; affidavit by Anne Bishop

  7. 1732  23 October, Abraham Fitch

  8. 1758  26 February, Thomas Fitch from ye Gift Houses                

  9. 1795  19 May, Mary Fitch

  10. 1797  10 December, Elizabeth Fitch

  11. 1815  26 November, Ann Fitch of this parish, age 57

Though these records have been transcribed with care, no responsibility in any form can be held for their accuracy or completeness.