Brief Life History of Myrtle Elsie
When Myrtle Elsie Hewitt was born on 27 June 1912, in Roma, Queensland, Australia, her father, Albert Hewitt, was 25 and her mother, Elsie Palk Yeo, was 25. She died on 21 February 1999, in Maryborough, Queensland, Australia, at the age of 86.
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Parents and Siblings
1887–1954 Male
1886–1951 Female
Siblings (4)
1912–1999 Female
1915–2011 Female
1919–1920 Male
1925–1989 Male
World Events (8)
1914
Age 2
1918
Age 6
1939
Age 27
Name Meaning
English:
from the Middle English personal name Hewet, Huet, Hughet, Howet, pet forms of Hugh (Middle English Hewe, Hue; see Hugh and compare Hew ). The spelling Hughet stood for both Huet and the synonymous Huget; see Huggett . This surname has also been established in Ireland since the 14th century.
habitational name from Hewitts in Chelsfield or Hewitts in Willesborough (both Kent), both named from Old English hīewett ‘cutting’, denoting a place where trees had been cut down. Here there lived families called de la Hewatte (1270), de la hewett (1301), and atte Hewete (1338). The name may also be topographic for someone who lived in a newly made clearing in a wood.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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