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http://www.dover-kent.com/Plume-of-Feathers.html

(from above on google, if relating)

From the Dover Telegraph and Cinque Ports General Advertiser, Saturday, 22 May, 1847. Price 5d.

MELONCHOLY SUICIDE
A Coroner’s inquest was held on Saturday evening at eight o’clock, before G. T. Thompson, Esq., Coroner for the Borough, at the “Plume of Feathers,” Limekiln Street, on the body of James Hewitt, aged 25 years, who was employed as malt-man at Messrs. Pages’ brewery.

Chris :)

hi chris thats intresting bit of information you have found i do think james is willams brother but i wonder where the mother and father are i can not find any thing of their birth thank you for digging further :-)

William seems to be sure that he was born in Folkestone.

When I get a chance I will look for him in parish registers of baptism which are on film in Folkestone library.
....maybe later this week or next.

Gwyn

hi gwyn thank you that is very nice of you to do that for me i be so pleased if you do find him :-)

if William Hewitt was a goldsmith then the Goldsmiths Company may have information on him.. if you can't go there you can write to them:

http://www.thegoldsmiths.co.uk/library/research-guides-reading-lists/researching-family-history-in-the-library/

Please bear with me, Christine, because I THINK I'm onto something.

I was looking for a baptism for William with no luck and came across this one for a James which fits 1841 census and the news report.
"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
Name: James Walker Hewitt
Gender: Male
Christening Date: 1825
Christening Place: CHATHAM, KENT, ENGLAND
Birth Date: 1825
Father's Name: William Hewitt
Mother's Name: Eleanor
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C16606-2



Then I checked for other children with the same parents and found this ....
"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
Name: William Hewitt
Gender: Male
Christening Date: 11 Apr 1819
Christening Place: SAINT NICHOLAS, DEPTFORD, LONDON, ENGLAND
[Deptford St. Nicholas is the parish which includes the royal marine barracks. (See census later.)]
Father's Name: William Hewitt
Mother's Name: Eleanor
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: P00162-2

.... and this.
Name: Rebecca Hewitt
Gender: Female
Christening Date: 02 Dec 1821
Christening Place: Chatham, Kent, England
Father's Name: William Hewitt
Mother's Name: Eleanor
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C02178-6


So then I looked for William (snr) & Eleanor's marriage.
"England Marriages, 1538–1973 "
Name William Hewitt
Spouse's Name Eleanor Walker
Event Date 14 Nov 1814
Event Place Stoke Damerel, Devon, England
Indexing Project (Batch) Number M05242-1



From there I went to the censuses and found this .
1841 England Census
Name: William Hewitt
Age: 65
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1776
Gender: Male
Civil Parish: Stoke Damerell <<<<<<<
Hundred: Devonport Borough
County/Island: Devon
Country: England
Street Address: Duke Street
Occupation:Navy <<<<<<<<<< (Royal Marine Barracks fits with this.)
Registration District: Stoke Damerel
Sub-registration District: Clowance
Piece: 272
Book: 2
Folio: 26
Page Number: 47
Household Members: Name Age
William Hewitt 65
Eleanor Hewitt 55
Rebecca Hewitt 20
None of them is born in the county. Whether they are born in the county or not is all you get for birthplace in 1841.


and unfortunately, I found this too.
Deaths Mar 1847 Hewitt Eleanor Plymouth 9 282


I can't find Rebecca or William snr in 1851 though there is this.
Marriages Mar 1849
Andrews John Christopher Plymouth 9 425
Burdock Mary Plymouth 9 425
Hewitt Rebecca Plymouth 9 425
Negus Fysher Plymouth 9 425
Rabbidge James Plymouth 9 425
Scobell Mary Jane Vyvyan Plymouth 9 425
Scoble Emily Plymouth 9 425
Williams John Beckett Plymouth 9 425
Williams John Birkett Plymouth 9 425

I found Fysher Negus married to Mary J V Scobell in the 1871 census.

As I wrote at the beginning, I only think this may be a chance.

http://cityark.medway.gov.uk/


Chatham, St Mary the Virgin

Baptism

December 2nd 1821

Rebecca, daughter of William and Eleanor Hewitt

Residence - Chatham

Occupation - Gunner, R.N.

hi choccy all the information seems it could be who i am looking for and maybe thats why james killed himself as his mother died the same year 1847 thank you for looking up this information it has given new leads to look in to i know william put down on cencers1861 that he was born folkstone but then maybe his father moved barrecks and was christened there :-)

hi ozbird also like to thank you for all the information you have found it has given me new leads thankyou :-) :-)