Author: Hewlett, Elizabeth
Biography:
HEWLETT, Elizabeth, formerly Griffith Meredith (1781-1863: ancestry.co.uk)
She was baptised on 12 Feb. 1781 at St. Clement’s, Oxford, the daughter of Isaac Griffith Meredith, a razor maker, and his wife Mary Rudd, who had married in London in 1767. Nothing is known of her education. She married William Hewlett, a slater and plasterer, albeit later termed "gentleman" not "labourer," at St. Lawrence, Besselsleigh, Berkshire, on 11 June 1803. They went on to have at least eleven children over the next twenty years. He died on 16 Apr. 1838 at St. Paul’s Terrace, Oxford, aged 61, and was buried at St. Mary Magdalen. He had taken out an insurance policy for her valued at £200 but this would not have been sufficient to provide for her long-term and by 1851 the Census recorded her as a Governess at the British School, Oxford, with her youngest daughter, Eleanor Jemima, as a teacher. In old age she lived with her daughters at 8 Cambridge Street, St. Ebbe, Oxford. She died on 14 Nov. 1863, aged 83, in Oxford. The Valley of Elah (1822) attracted just over 50 subscribers and she published nothing further. (ancestry.co.uk 8 Dec. 2021; findmypast.co.uk 8 Dec. 2021; OFHS; Oxford Chronicle 21 Apr. 1838; OJ 9 Feb. and 9 Mar. 1822, 21 Nov. 1863) AA
Other Names:
- Mrs. William Hewlett