Headstone – Phillis & Ann Thewlis & Jane Jewitt
Description
Complete, but broken and somewhat worn stone commemorating Phillis Thewlis, née Wilson (1764-1832), widow of Captain George Thewlis, master mariner. She was probably bap. at Tynemouth, Northumberland, 23 Sept 1764. She married George Thewlis at Holy Trinity on 4 April 1802. With her was buried Ann (née Utley), her daughter-in-law, wife of her son George Charles Thewlis (bap. Drypool 1803), a silversmith and ironmonger (married at Sculcoates 1828).
With them is Ann's older half-sister, Jane Jewitt, daughter of their mother Mary's first marriage to Duncan McLean (spelled in registers as McClean/McLane). Jane was born in May 1798, a month after her father's death, and baptised at Fish Street Chapel. In 1802, her mother married Thomas Utley at Holy Trinity. Jane married Samuel Jewitt at Sculcoates, 12 March 1818. Her death notice in the Hull Packet (27 March 1840) describes her as the "wife of Captain Jewitt, and sister to Mr McLean, shoemaker, Whitefriargate".
Inscription and donor(s)
In
Memory of
PHILLIS THEWLIS
relict of
GEORGE THEWLIS
Master Mariner
who died March 28:th 1832
Aged 67 Years
Also ANN the Wife of
GEORGE C. THEWLIS
who died Feb:ry 20:th 1834
Aged 29 Years.
Also JANE JEWITT the Wife of
SAMUEL JEWITT
who died March 18:th 1840
Aged 42 Years
