'Hewitt03'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Hewet of Headly Hall, Hewet of London, Hewett of Pishobury, Hewet of Potton, Hewet of Waresby

                               
Robert Hewet of Killamarch, Derbyshire
1. Robert Hewet (dsp)
2. William Hewet of London (b c1522, d 1599)
  A. John Hewet of Headly Hall, Yorkshire (d 1602)
  m. Elizabeth Hampson (dau of Sir Robert Hampson, alderman of London, m2. Sir Gilbert Wakering, m3. Sir Robert Bevile)
i. Sir John Hewet (or Hewett), later of Waresby (Huntingdonshire), Sheriff of Northamptonshire, 1st Bart of Headly Hall (Yorkshire) (b c1598, d 14.11.1657)
  m. Catherine Bevile (d 12.02.1638, dau of Sir Robert Bevile of Chesterton (by Mary Coles of Preston), sister/heir of Sir Robert)
  a. Sir John Hewet of Waresby, 2nd Bart, Sheriff of Cambridgeshire & Huntingdonshire (d 30.09.1684)
  m. Frances Tyrrell (dau of Sir Toby Tyrrell, Bart of Thornton, m2. Philip Cotton of Conington)
  (1) Sir John Hewet of Waresby, 3rd Bart, Sheriff of Cambridgeshire & Huntingdonshire (d 03.02.1737)
  m1. Anne Stokes (dau of Francis Stokes of Tiderton, son of Christopher by sister of Chancellor Hyde)
  (A) Anne Hewet
  m. John Hagar of Bourn
  (i) Hewet Hagar
  (B)+ other issue - 2 sons (dvpsp), daughter
  m2. Eleanor Osborne (dsp 1728, dau of Sir John Osborne, Bart of Cricksands)
  (2) William Hewet of St. Neots, Huntingdonshire (7th son)
  (A) Sir William Hewet of Potton (Bedfordshire), 4th Bart (d 1749, Captain RN)
  m. Elizabeth Levemore of Gosport (d before 10.04.1778)
  (i) Sir William Hewet of Potton, 4th Bart (d unm 01.01.1761, Captain RN)
  (ii)+ other issue - Levemore (d 01.01.1761), Herbert (d before 1761), Elizabeth
  (B) Sir Tyrrell Hewet of Potton, 6th Bart (d 17.02.1770)
  m. _ Gedding (dau of Robert Gedding "of the Post Office")
  (i) Sir Byng Hewet, 7th Bart (b c1752, d unm c1770)
(ii) Sir Thomas Hewet, 8th Bart (b c1756, dsp 07.06.1822, rector of Sudborough)
  m. Mary Tebbutt of Sudbury (Sudborouigh) (d by 12.1826)
  (C) William Hewet
  (3) Thomas Hewet
  m. ?? (Mrs. Pinkney)
  (A)+ issue - Thomas of Clare Hall (minister), Anne
  (4) Hester Hewet
m. Ulysses Blount (son of Sir Henry of Titenhanger)
  (5) Frances Hewet (dsp)
  m. Henry Scrope of St. Neots
  (6) Editha Hewet
  m. William Dove of Upton
  (7) Elizabeth Hewet
m. (Robert) Broke of Nacton (d 1714)
  (8)+ other issue - Tyrrell (dsp, rector of Scotter), Robert (d unm), Thomas (d young), Benjamin (d unm), Charles, James, Toby, Benjamin, Theodora, Catherine, Arabella
  b. Catherine Hewet
  m. Robert Cheek of Purgo (Pirgo)
  c. Grace Hewet
  m. Sir Thomas Brograve, Bart of Hamels (d 1670)
  d.+ other issue - Robert, Elizabeth, Frances, Anne
  ii. Catherine Hewet
  m. (1617) George Byng of Wrotham
BEB1841 ('Hewet of Headly Hall') reports that William had, with his heir John, 3 younger sons "Solomon, Thomas, and William; from the three last sprung the families of Hewet, of Pishobury, Herts, the Hewets, of Shire Oakes, Notts, and the Hewets, of Stretton, in Leicestershire."
  B. Solomon Hewet
  BEB1841 ('Hewett of Pishobury)', which provides the following, starts with the following William who we presume to be son of Solomon.
  i. Sir William Hewett of London 'of Pishiobury' (d 1637)
  m. Elizabeth Wiseman (dau of Richard Wiseman)
a. Sir Thomas Hewett, 1st Bart of Pishobury, Sheriff of Hertfordshire (b c1605, d 04.08.1662)
  m1. Frances Hobart (d 21.05.1632, dau of Sir John Hobart, Bart of Blickling, Lord Chief Justice)
  (1) Dorothy Hewett
  m. (02.04.1666) Sir William Beversham of Holbrook Hall
  m2. (c1633) Margaret Lytton (dau of Sir William Lytton of Knebworth, relict of Thomas Hillersdon)
  (2) Sir George Hewett of Pishobury, Viscount Hewett of Gowran (b 1652, d unm 02.12.1690)
  (3) Elizabeth Hewett
  m. Sir Richard Anderson, Bart of Penley
(4) Margaret Hewett
  m. Sir Edward Farmer of Canons
  (5) Anne Hewett
  m. Sir John Rivers, Bart of Chafford
  (6) Arabella Hewett (d 1705)
  m. (16.05.1664) Sir William Wiseman, Bart of Canfield
(7) Mary Hewett
  m. (18.10.1674) Sir Charles Crofts Reade of Bardwell
  (8) Jane Hewett
m. Charles Staples of Westminster
  b. Elizabeth Hewett (d 24.01.1639-40) apparently of this generation
  m. (11.07.1626) Sir Thomas Richardson (b 1597, d 12.03.1642-3)
  c. Anne Hewett probably of this generation
  m. (13.12.1646) Sir John Strode of Chantmarle & Parnham
  d. Mary Hewett probably of this generation
  m. Ralph Freeman of Aspenden (d 1665)
  e.+ 4 sons and 2 other daughters
  C. Thomas Hewet ancestor of the Hewets of Shire Oakes, Nottinghamshire
  D. William Hewett
  BEB1841 identifies William as ancestor of the Hewetts of Stretton, Leicestershire.

Main source(s): BEB1841 ('Hewet of Headly Hall') with support from TCB (vol 1, 'Hewet or Hewett of Headly Hall', p175) and input as noted above
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