31 May 2020

60.1-2 (and .5) Siblings and Cousins of George Lewtey

William Henry and Ellen Lucy Lewtey had nine children. Their children are George's siblings.
  • 60.1.1 - Florence Helena Lewtey (1870-1936)
    • Born in Meerut nr Delhi
    • Married Hector William Marten (1867-1924) in Kasauli in 1889. He had a brother and a sister.
    • Children:
      • Cyril Joseph Sinclair Martin (1892)
  • 60.1.2 - Ada Elizabeth Lewtey (1871-1938)
Ada Lewtey (Tony Graham on Ancestry)
    • Born in Meerut
    • Married Edwin Samuel Thomas Cotton (1863-1891) in Kasauli in 1889
    • Children:
      • Claudine Mitchell Cotton (1890)
    • Married Arthur David Cotton (1858-1936) at Nowgong, Madhya Pradesh
    • Children:
      • Arthur David Macdonald Cotton (1900)
      • Harold Alexander Macdonald Cotton (1902)
  • 60.1.3 - Ellenor Maude Lewtey (1873-1946)
    • Born in Peshawar
    • Married William St Michael Hefferman (1866-1949) in Fort William in 1893.
    • He was with the Indian Medical Department.
    • Children:
      • Jessie Mabel Hefferman (1893). Jessie died in 1895.
      • Leslie William Hefferman (1895)
      • Doris Florence Hefferman (1896)
      • Maude Jessie Hefferman (1903)
    • 1911: the couple, with Doris and Maude, were boarding with the Stubbs family of five plus a nurse, a companion and a servant, at 55 Craven Park, Harlesden.
    • 1912: Assistant Surgeon 1st Class, Yamethin District, Burma
    • 1918: William appears in the British Army List as a Senior Assistant Surgeon.
    • 1927/1928: Major Hefferman is listed in the phone book at 36 Castletown Road, London
    • 1939: William and Eleanor were living with Doris' family in Swansea.
    • Both died in Swansea in the 1940s.
  • 60.1.4 - Blanche Eveline Lewtey (1874-1948)
    • Born in Murree nr Rawal Pindee
    • Married Edwin Joseph Murphy (1868-1933) in Fort William in 1894
    • Children:
      • Eveline Norine Murphy (1896)
      • Sheila Lingard Murphy (1899)
    • In 1939, she sailed from London to Bombay on the SS Stratheden.
SS Stratheden (John Oxley Library)
    • In 1945, she arrived in Southampton from Bombay on the RMS Strathaird.
RMS Strathaird (John Oxley Library)
  • 60.1.5 - Alexander Crutchley Lewtey (1877-1924)
    • Born in Fort William
    • Married Dulcie Noreen Eates (1889-1973) in Fyzabad in 1909
    • Children:
      • Vernon Dudley Lewtey (1909)
      • Alexander William Dominic Lewtey (1911)
      • Noreen Dulcie Lewtey (1917)
  • 60.1.6 - Eva Beatrix Lewtey (1878-1879)
    • Born in Peshawar
    • Died in infancy
  • 60.1.7 - Rose Violet Lewtey (1880-1903)
    • Born in Peshawar
    • Married Cecil Alexander Borthwick (1873-1919) in Jubbulpore in 1900
    • Children:
      • Norman Ivan Borthwick (1902)
  • 60.1.8 - George Ronald Crutchley Lewtey (1881-1953)
  • 60.1.9 - William Crutchley Lewtey (1883-1949)
    • Born in Rawal Pindee; went to school in Mussoorie, and Civil Engineering College in Sibpur, Calcutta.
    • He was an electrical and mechanical engineer, like his older brother
    • 1901: Assistant Engineer, Saw Mills, Opium Department, Patna
    • 1904: Assistant Engineer, Water Works Department, Allahabad, then Mechanical and electrical engineer, Port Blair, Andaman Islands
    • Married Alice Violet Wonson (1881-1968) in Rangoon in 1905. She was born in Cheltenham (three brothers and four sisters), daughter of a market gardener, and had been a servant in 1901. Perhaps she has travelled out in the hope of marriage.
    • Children:
      • Violet Evelyn Veronica Lewtey (1907)
      • Marjorie Cecilia Lewtey (1913)
      • Kenneth William Crutchley Lewtey (1925)
    • 1906: Engineer, later Superintendent, at the Power Station of the Rangoon Electric Tramways; by 1920, installation of new boilers and generators completed, under his supervision. There is a record of a visit to the UK, returning to Rangoon in 1922 on the Burma, the same ship used by the Adams family three years later.
    • 1926: Engineer and manager, Crutchley & Morley, Tube Well Engineers. He was responsible under the Chief Engineer for installing a Vacuo-Lift system of operating tube wells, employing 200-300 men. This was a personal invention, with similarities to that of Rupert Henry Squire. The name of the company is also striking.
    • In 1939, he arrived in London from Madras via Calcutta, to stay or live at 1 St James Square, Cheltenham.


William and Elizabeth Lewtey had three children. Their children are William's siblings, above. Only his father had children, so George has no paternal first cousins.
  • 55.1.1 - Margaret Jane Lewtey (1844)
    • Born in Dum Dum, Calcutta. No later record found
  • 55.1.1 - William Lewtey (1845-1845)
    • Died in infancy
  • 55.1.1 - William Henry Lewtey (1845-1908)
    • See Lewtey tree above

Robert and Matilda MacDonald had three children in British India. These are Ellen Lucy's siblings. Only her mother had children, so George has no maternal first cousins.
  • 55.2.1 - Sarah MacDonald (1845)
    • Born in Cawnpore. No later record found.
  • 55.2.2 - Alexander MacDonald (1847)
    • Born in Jullunder [Jalandhar, Punjab]; died there at about age 21
  • 55.2.3 - Ellen Lucy MacDonald (1851)
    • See Lewtey tree above

More on these individuals in Chapter 62.

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