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flyingcuttlefish ago

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That's fine as is, except "Fitz" is definitely "Fils de", or son of for Anglo-Norman French/Cambro-Norman (Cambro being for Wales). Nothing to do with bastard or not. That's a Scandinavian naming pattern and Wales used something similar. Up until fairly recently in Scandinavia you had to name your son after yourself to preserve the family name. If not, each generation changes the surname. That's how FitzMaurice morphed into FitzGerald. Maurice had a son named Gerald FitzMaurice who had a son FitzGerald, etc..... If you were Scandinavian and wanted to maintain the surname Johnson, for instance, then the son had to be named John for each generation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_family_name_etymology

From Wales you see that in surnames like James, where the earlier ancestor was named James. If I see someone that has the first and last name as something like Charles, then I guess they are either Haitian or Welsh or from northern France. Most of the French who went into Haiti were from the north, I think.

Another unusual thing which appears in Tribes of Galway who are "Old English" (aka Anglo-Norman, Cambro-Norman) is using a double small letter instead of caps. Thus, one of the Tribes of Galway is named ffrench, which we would spell French.