Hewitt Family History
Hewitt Name Meaning
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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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Hewitt
Name Distribution of Hewitt Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Hewitt families
 1,244 - 2,486  415 - 1,243 |
 1 - 414  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hewitt families
|
109 - 215 37 - 108 |
1 - 36 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Hewitt census records
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Hewitt Family Origin
Hewitt Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Hewitt Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Hewitt families immigrated
to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Hewitt Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Hewitt census records
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Military Service by Hewitt
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