{"id":374,"date":"2022-12-27T18:26:52","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T07:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/?p=374"},"modified":"2023-01-02T13:21:55","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T02:21:55","slug":"henry-william-hewes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/2022\/12\/henry-william-hewes\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry William Hewes"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an earlier post I mentioned that I had lost track of Emma Hewes<\/a>‘ first husband Henry William Hewes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Subsequent research revealed that he had been a baker or confectioner, had become bankrupt in 1848, and died in 1858. Ancestry suggested a few hints today which seem to have filled in this gap, and possibly explained how Emma Hewes and her family came to be living in Oxford.<\/p>\n

Henry appears in the 1841 census<\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> in the household of Elizabeth Braggs:<\/p>\n

High Street, Colchester, Essex, England
\nElizabeth Braggs, Female, 35, Confectioner, Not Essex
\nMatilda Simpson, Female, 15, ?, Essex
\nHenry Hewes, Male, 20, Baker, Essex
\nElias Taylor, Male, 15, Baker, Not Essex
\nSarah Pullin, Female, 15, ?, Not Essex<\/p>\n

Elizabeth is probably the wife of William Braggs, who appears in Pigot’s directory of 1823-24, and whose death is recorded in Colchester in 1850.<\/p>\n

Henry, of full age, bachelor, baker, son of Stephen Hewes, marries Emma Griggs, of full age, spinster, daughter of John Griggs, at Holy Trinity, Colchester, Essex, England on 19 May 1844.<\/span>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Henry William Hewes is listed as both a confection and a baker and flour dealer in White’s Directory of Essex in 1848<\/span>3<\/sup><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Henry is listed as bankrupt in 1848<\/span>4<\/sup><\/a><\/span>, but declares a dividend<\/span>5<\/sup><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

He is listed as a Baker and Confectioner in the 1851 Post Office Directory for Essex<\/span> at 28 Head St, Colchester, Essex, England.<\/div>\n
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Henry is listed in the household of Catherine Horn, in Oxford, in the 1851 census<\/span>6<\/sup><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Household at 15 Corn Market St, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
\nCatherine Horn, Head, W, F, 61, Confectioner employing 4 men and 1 boy, Oxford
\nJohn Horn, Son, U, M, 32, Hatter, Oxford
\nEdward Horn, Son, U, M, 30, Confectioner, Oxford
\nMary M. Horn, Daughter, U, F, 26, Assistant, Oxford
\nWilliam H. Horn, Son, U, M, 20, Cook, Oxford
\nThomas R. Bolton, Grand Son, U, M, 21, Surgeons Assistant, Oxford
\nElizabeth Millson, Serv., U, F, 23, House Servant, Berks. Staniford
\nHenry Hewes, Serv., Mar, M, 29, Confectioner, Essex Colchester
\nJohn Phillips, Serv., U, M, 26, Baker, Oxon. Barton
\nCharles Fox, Serv., U, M, 20, Baker, Oxon. Aston.<\/p>\n

More details of 15 Corn Market St, Oxford<\/a><\/p>\n

It is possible that Henry found work in Oxford as a solution to his financial difficulties, or to establish a new reputation. His wife Emma, and their four children, are living with her mother, Margaret, at Eld Lane, Colchester, in the 1851 census. Presumably Henry has recently moved to Oxford, and Emma and the children at some point after March 1851 follow him to Oxford. This explains Emma’s presence in Oxford in the 1861 census.<\/p>\n

The death on “June 20, in London, aged 40 years, Mr. Henry Hewes, late of 4 Head Street, Colchester, baker” is reported in The Essex Standard, and General Advertiser for the Eastern Counties 2 Jul 1858.<\/p>\n

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In an earlier post I mentioned that I had lost track of Emma Hewes‘ first husband Henry William Hewes. Subsequent research revealed that he had been a baker or confectioner, had become bankrupt in 1848, and died in 1858. Ancestry …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","tag-hewes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":381,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}