James HEWITT [7815]
(Abt 1800-1882)

 

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Ann MOORCROFT [7816]

James HEWITT [7815]

  • Born: Abt 1800, Ireland
  • Marriage: Ann MOORCROFT [7816] on 4 Sep 1831 in Aghalee, Antrim, Ireland 1
  • Died: Dec Q 1882, Cockermouth, CUL, England aged about 82 2

  General Notes:


1881 JAMES HEWITT, widower, age 80, in the Union Workhouse, Cockermouth, Cumberland, England. He probably died there age 84. Dec. Quarter 1882 Cockermouth 10b 349
I believe this is "our" James Hewitt, but STILL TO BE VERIFIED.

  Noted events:

James worked as a hand loom weaver, brickmaker's labourer.

3 Apr 1881 census: age 80, brickmaker's labourer, widower at Union Workhouse, Cockermouth, Cumberland, England. 3


James married Ann MOORCROFT [7816] [MRIN: 2279] on 4 Sep 1831 in Aghalee, Antrim, Ireland.1 (Ann MOORCROFT [7816] was born before 1815 in Ireland and died before 1881.)

Sources

1 LDS Batch M700141Aghalee, Antrim, Ireland 1811 -1845.

2 Bev 2005-03-25 re James Hewitt's death.
Yes, the story goes, not only from my Gran Edith, but from the relatives in New Zealand who got it from Edith's sister Eliza Ann Lees (nee Lewis)....that Grandfather Hewitt .. was the head of the Orangemen in Belfast and he had gone out to the outhouse ... apparently, he was gone so long and someone went to check to see where he was. The story goes that someone had slit his throat (Gran's version); her sister's version is that someone smashed his head in.
Either way, rather gruesome and very sad. So, I guess we know why he passed so young in life.

3 1881 census of England, Cumberland, Union Workhouse, Cumberland, folio 109, page 1; PRO RG 11/5174;
James Hewitt 80 W brickmaker labourer, Ireland

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