Thomas Hewitt^[1]

1904 - 1993  (88 years)

• Name	Thomas Hewitt  [1]
  Birth	5 Nov 1904	Middlesborough, Yorkshire, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Arrival	21 Jul 1917	Halifax, Nova Scotia   [1]
  Departure	Liverpool, England   [1]
  UID	968E26A8011445BB85FD6E45992117273497
  Death	30 Jan 1993	Westlock, Alberta, Canada
  Person ID	I1215537460	King-Gurnett Family Tree
  Last Modified	1 Jul 2025

  
  

  Father	George Henry Hewitt,   b. 18 Dec 1879, Darlington, Durham, England, d. 15 Sept 1916 (Age 36 years)
  Mother	Ethel Penney,   b. 24 Mar 1881, Darlington, Durham, England d. 2 Jun 1915 (Age 34 years)
  Family ID	F460	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ethel Elizabeth Wenlock,   b. 29 Sept 1905, Hull, Yorkshire, England d. 25 Oct 2002, Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada (Age 97 years)
  Children	+ 1. Shirley Anne Hewitt,   b. 17 Feb 1928, Calgary, Alberta, Canada d. December 28, 2021, Red Deer, Alberta, Canada (Age 92 years)   2. Harold Hewitt,   b. 1933?, Calgary, AB d. 23 Mar 2021, Calgary, AB
  Family ID	F226	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Aug 2025

  
  

• Photos

  Thomas Hewitt Taken from article, "Mailing Room Chief Has Important Job," Calgary Herald (Calgary, Alberta, Canada), Thursday, October 22, 1964

  
  

• Notes

  Worked at Calgary Herald. Started as a paperboy at 8 and rose up to be head of the mailroom until he retired. He was also a bare-knuckled boxer in his teens and twenties to make money on the side. Background on Thomas Hewitt and his brothers: On the July 1917 Passenger Lists, Thomas Hewitt (12) appears with his younger brothers Harry (10) and James (8). They are accompanied by Lily Tate (34) and her sons John (11), George (8), Robert (6), and Walter (4). They come over from Liverpool to Halifax and they list their destination as Calgary, Alberta. All of them have been in Canada before. The Tates were in Calgary from 1910-1915, while the Hewitts appear in Calgary over the course of a few years: Thomas comes over in 1904, Harry in 1907, and James in 1909 (although this seems strange since both Walter Tate and James Hewitt are listed as having been born in Canada). They all return to England, it seems in 1915. From what I can tell, the Hewitt children's mother dies in 1915 and their father dies in 1916. The following year they all return to Calgary. This listing is almost definitely the Hewitts of Ruth's ancestry as the three Hewitt children are listed on the same ticket as the Tates. They rode abord a ship called the Olympic. John Tate (the eldest) was born 29 July 1905 in Yorkshire, England and died 9 March 1993. His parents were Robert William Tate and Lily Penney. Lily was Ethel Penney's sister. Family history suggests that after the Hewitt parents died, the children were taken in by the Tates. Like some bizarre fairy tale, however, Robert and Lily stole the Hewitt children's inheritance and spent it on their own children, leaving the Hewitt children to fend for themselves.

  
  

• Sources

  [S_2050325015] . Birth date: abt 1905 Birth place: Arrival date: 21 Jul 1917 Arrival place: Halifax, Nova Scotia Departure date: Departure place: Liverpool, England