William Kellett Hewitt senior

Profile & Legacies Summary

1757 - 1812

Biography

There is or was a Latin memorial in Exeter Cathedral to William Kellett Hewitt, showing him of Cashoo dying at Duryards in Exeter in 1812 aged 55. See entry for William Kellett Hewitt junior.
William Kellit [sic] Hewitt of Clarendon, merchant, and Deborah Dunkley, spinster, of St Elizabeth were married in St Elizabeth by licence, 10/10/1782.

Sources

Vere Langford Oliver, Caribbeana being miscellaneous papers relating to the history, genealogy, topography, and antiquities of the British West Indies (6 vols., London, Mitchell, Hughes and Clarke, 1910-1919), Vol. 4 for the inscription relating to William Kellett Hewitt of Cashoo; Caribbeana Vol III for a daughter Ann (1799-1807) of Deborah Hewitt and William Kellitt buried at St Marylebone.
Familysearch.org, Jamaican Parish Registers, St Elizabeth, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1705-1820 p. 301.

We are grateful to Paul Hitchings for his assistance with compiling this entry.

Further Information

Absentee?

Transatlantic

Spouse

Deborah Dunkley

Children

Thomas Dunkley (1784-), William (1785-), Helen Fotherinham (1788-), Deborah Dunkley (1790-), Elizabeth (1792-), James (1793-), Mary Kellitt (1795-), John (1796-), Susanna Fotheringham (1797-), Ann (1799-), Thomasina (1801-), Ruby Williams (1805-)

Associated Estates (4)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

SD - Association Start Date
SY - Association Start Year
EA - Earliest Known Association
ED - Association End Date
EY - Association End Year
LA - Latest Known Association

1810 [EA] - 1811 [LA] → Owner

Cashoo [ Jamaica | St Elizabeth ]

1809 [EA] - 1811 [LA] → Owner

Content Hall [ Jamaica | St Elizabeth ]

1809 [EA] - 1811 [LA] → Owner

Fellowship [ Jamaica | St Elizabeth ]

1817 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Previous owner

The Wilderness [ Jamaica | Manchester ]