The hewitt Surname

hewitt Name Meaning and History

English, Welsh, and Scottish: from the medieval personal name Huet, a diminutive of Hugh. See also Hew. The surname has also long been established in Ireland.
English: topographic name for someone who lived in a newly made clearing in a wood, Middle English hewett (Old English hiewet, a derivative of heawan ‘to chop’,‘to hew’).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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hewitt Family Facts

Distribution of hewitt Families in the US in 1920

Number of hewitt families

268-534

90-267

1-89

Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 882 - Messages: 1959

Thread	Author	Replies
Looking for Henry Hewitt	nigelhewitt1	0
Hewitt's from Penn.	WeathersHewitt	18
Frantz Carl Huyet aka Francis Huet	shannalineage	1
Hewitt Family Bible	Dinnwanna	2
Joseph Hewitt	AnneCBagby	0
James Hewitt and wife, Elizabeth Allen Hewitt	ConnieChumley	0
Winny Hewitt	pennym1950	0
Hewitt Estate in NY	lehampton	6
Hewitts of Gilmer County, WV	Stephen_Houser	2
Goldsmith Hewitt	VH1211	17

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