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Hewett of Killamarsh and London

Map of Killamarsh

Archives hold details of a Nich. Hewett of Wales (Yorks.). dated 1517, in connection with land at Sothall, Beighton.Reference: DD/FJ/7/23/1.

Nicholas, born about 1438 had 2 sons:

  1. Robert of Killamarsh
  2. Edward (Edmund?)

Edward(Edmund?) born about 1469 had 2 sons:

  1. Leonard of Harthill - is mentioned in Yorkshire Fines of 1561
  2. William of Wales, Lord Mayor of London

Robert of Killamarsh (Born: Abt 1489 Killamarch, Derbys. Married: Abt 1519) was father to William¹ of Killamarsh and Robert (Born: Abt 1520), who died without issue. Robert Hewet, esq. who possessed a considerable estate at Killamarsh, in Derbyshire, in the reign of Henry VIII. William, who succeeded his father died 1599, aged 77.

'Notes & Queries', gives details of an inscription on a monument in St. Paul's Cathedral:

Inscription,Hewett of Killamarsh

William¹ of Killamarsh, born about 1522; was a cousin of Leonard Hewett(will 1563) who was brother of William, Lord Mayor of London.

William¹ had six children two daughters and 4 sons:

  1. John (1553-1602), clothworker, married Elizabeth daughter of Sir Richard Hampson, about 1583, they had 2 children, John² (1587-1657), his heir, married Catherine Bevile in 1619,( through this marriage Sir John acquired Waresley Hall, Hunts); and Catherine (b.1586) who married in 1617 to George Byng of Wrotham. John Snr. died 1602.
  2. Solomon b.1555
  3. Thomas Hewitt born about 1557 married to Isabel Beard on 6 April 1575 having children William c 1576, James, Richard and Henry.
  4. William born about 1559 married Maria who died in 1602. Wm was buried 23 March, 1622
  5. Mary married distant cousin Henry (son of Thomas d.1565?)
  6. Elizabeth married William Ferrers son of Roger Ferrers of Gloucester

William¹ died 12th June, 1599 aged 77 years.

There is a memorial to John Hewet of the Clothworkers Company at St Dionise Back Church:
Monument was erected for the Worshipfull John Hewet, Gent. Citizen and Merchant of London, and free of the Clothworkers Company: who in his life time was loving to all, and pittifull to the poore: witnesse the yeerely pension he hath given for ever, of five pounds to the poore of this Parish. He changed this mortall habitation the third day of July, Anno Domini, 1602.

Hewett of Headley Hall

It seems, that all the Hewetts are all derived from the same family - the Hewetts of Headley Hall, were afterwards of Waresley, Hunts.

Sir John Hewet², 1st Bt. was created 1st Baronet Hewet, of Waresley, co. Huntingdon in 1621. Through his marriage to Catherine Bevill of Chesterton, Sir John acquired Waresley Hall, Hunts.

Children of John² (1587-1657) and Catherine (Nee Bevile), born in Waresley, Huntingdonshire:

John and Frances (Nee Tyrell) Hewett, born Waresley had 11 sons and 7 daughters:

Source: Debrett's Baronetage of England and IGI

References

Notes and Queries Vol. 6 2nd S. (153) Dec 4 1858 Page 465

White's History & Directory of Sheffield, Rotherham 1833

Spencer-Stanhope - Sheffield Archives

 

Notes

Frances Parker, son of William Parker of Whitley Hall, married Anne(1561-1615), daughter and heir of Richard Hewet(b.abt.1535) of Killamarsh on 12 Oct 1579 at Ecclesfield.

 

Robert Sitwell of Staveley Netherthorpe held a capital messuage in Brampton in le Morthen which he granted to Henry Hewitt son of John Hewitt of Killwall Marsh (co. Derby). John Payler escheator. Taken at Pontefract. Reference: Bag C/924 20 Nov 1598

 

The family above were long settled in Killamarsh, and descend from the Hewetts of Headley Hall, who were previously from Kent and owned property in Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Northampton.

The Hewetts of Stretton, Leicester. sprung from William, son of Thomas, which Thomas (will 1675) was brother of Sir William, who bequeaths to his nephew William, son of Thomas, his parsonage etc.at Dunstan Basset, Leicester, and this Thomas bequeaths by his will of 1575, his Manor of Shireoaks, to his son Henry. (Henry married his distant cousin Mary - the daughter of William Hewett of Killamarsh and London. The other daughter married William Ferrers son of Roger Ferrers of Gloucester).

Charities: The poor of Killamarsh were granted a yearly dole of £57 from land at Cawthorne, Barnsley, and £400 in the bank, arising frim the bequest of William Hewitt in 1599, to be distributed in weekly doles of bread.

Another dole by a William Hewitt, 1499 of £3 12s.

There appears to have been disputes over a right of way through closes in Cawthorne, belonging to the poor of Killamarsh

Reference: SpSt/158/1. Bond: 16 Oct 1719
John Spencer of Cannon Hall, par. Cawthorne, Yorks., gent., is bound to George Ward of Killamarsh, Derbys., yeoman, Francis Atkin of the same place, blacksmith, Nicholas Harries of the same place, yeoman and Humphrey Hewitt of the same place, yeoman, trustees for the poor of Killamarsh, in £100, to keep the terms of the arbitration award of William Scriven of Herdings, par. Norton, Derbys., gent., and John Wood of Thurgoland, par. Silkston, Yorks., gent., arbitrators mutually agreed between them, to award in the case of rights of the poor of Killamarsh, to lands in Cawthorne, now a matter of controversy between them.

Reference: SpSt/158/2. Demand and receipt for rents for the poor of Killamarsh : Nov - Dec 1712

Reference: SpSt/158/3. Bond. 17 Nov 1719

George Ward of Killamarsh, Derbys., yeoman, Francis Atkin of Killamarsh, blacksmith, Nicholas Harries of Killamarsh, yeoman, and Humphrey Hewitt of Killamarsh, yeoman, trustees of the poor of Killamarsh, are bound to William Spencer of Cannon Hall, par. Cawthorne, gent., in £100, to keep the covenants of the arbitration award.

Reference: SpSt/158/4. Demand and receipt for rents for the poor of Killamarsh. Nov 1713

Reference: SpSt/158/5. Memorandum of an arbitration award. 26 Nov 1719
Reciting that a dispute arose between John and William Spencer of Cannon Hall, and the trustees of Killamarsh poor, concerning a right of way through 4 closes of ground belonging to the poor of Killamarsh, and a kiln built by John Spencer on one of the closes. The award, made by Richard Watts of Barnes Hall, clerk, and John Wood of Wire Mill, and William Scriven of Herdings, arbitrators, is as follows:

Reference: SpSt/158/6. Lease. 1 Jan 1721
John Spencer and William Spencer of Cannon Hall, Cawthorne, Yorks., gents., to George Ward, Francis Atkin, Nicholas Harris and Humphrey Hewitt, trustees for the poor of Killamarsh.
The way through the 4 closes called Millfields, near to Jowett House mill, belonging to the poor of Killamarsh, and reserving for themselves free liberty of entry to fetch corn and hay, and to repair the goyt, weir and dams belonging to the mill.
For 999 years at a peppercorn rent.

Reference: SpSt/158/7. Lease. 1 Jan 1721
George Ward, Francis Atkin, Nicholas Harris and Humphrey Hewitt (father of Margaret), trustees for the poor of Killamarsh, Derbys., to John and William Spencer of Cannon Hall, par. Cawthorne, Yorks., gent.
Newly erected kiln, near Jowit House Mill, par. Cawthorne, and 1 rood of land belonging.
For 999 years at a peppercorn rent.

 

William Kynwolmerssh

The appointment of Lord Fitzhugh as treasurer in December, 1416 brought William Kynwolmerssh to the exchequer as his clerk. Probably a native of Killamarsh in Derbyshire, Kynwolmerssh is said to have been a member of University Collage, Oxford. At the beginning of 1405, when he had a grant of certain forfeited goods, he was described as king's servant, and in the following year he was a clerk in the wardrobe of the Royal Household. With the accession of Henry V he emerged as cofferer of the household, and was retained to accompany the King in the campaign of 1415, with a retinue of two men-at-arms and nine archers. His transfer from the household to be clerk of the treasurer in December, 1416 seems to be an unprecedented intrusion into the exchequer, and probably he was intended to be more important than his predecessors, for six months later the King confirmed his appointment by Lord Fitzhugh as deputy treasurer. He was also granted the succession to the treasurship itself, if Fitzhugh should give it up. In accordance with this arrangement he became treasurer early in 1421. Meanwhile he had secured a prebend in St. Paul's Cathedral in 1418 and become Dean of St. Martin le Grand in the following year. However he was not destined to enjoy any of these offices very long, he died in December, 1422.

Source:The English Historical Review, Vol. 72, No. 285 (Oct., 1957), pp. 666-677

Offsite links

1597 Plaintiff: Henry BENTLEY. Deforciant: John HEWETT, gent. Lands in Wales

Conisbrough Court Roll 1605: The Gunpowder Plot James and John Hewett

Other Hewitts

From Nottingham Parish Registers: Persons Presented as Popish Recusants in the Reigns of James I & Charles I
Elizabeth Hewyt 1626-27 Ollerton spinster
Elizabeth Hewyt 1624-28 Ollerton widow
Maria Hewytt 1628-32 Cuckney spinster

 

Parish registers at Worksop mention three Hewetts Gualter c.1617, William c 1620-1621 and Ann c.1624.

 

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