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hewitt Name Meaning and History

  1. 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.
  2. 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
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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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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