James Mitchell, his wife Hannah nee Hewitt and their eldest daughter Ann Mitchell.
Hannah Hewitt was born in 1822, one of the seven children of Henry Hewitt and his wife Elizabeth nee Brown. No Stoneleigh baptism for her has been found, but the Hewitt family had lived in Stoneleigh for generations, dating back to the sixteenth century when they had been fullers at what is now 10, Vicarage Road. Hewitt descendants still live in Stoneleigh, in 2018.
In 1841 Hannah was working as a servant to Mr Charles Heath, Lord Leigh's deer keeper, at the Deer Park Lodge. She married
James Mitchell on 6 May 1845 at Stoneleigh and they went on to have six children over the next twenty years. Hannah died some two years after her husband (see below) on 22 September 1896; she was buried on 26 September.
James Mitchell was born in late 1820 and baptised at Stoneleigh on 10 November. His parents were John and Elizabeth nee Cox and they lived at Pipes Mill. Like his father, James worked as an agricultural labourer, but by the 1860s the vicar was noting that he and his family lived at School Cottages (now known as Church Meadow Cottage) and he was working as a bricklayer. He died on 5 March 1894 and was buried on 10 March.
Ann Mitchell was born in October 1845 and baptised at Stoneleigh on 2 November. She remained unmarried and from at least 1873 she worked as a dressmaker; the vicar, in his diary, noted this, and that when she was in her late teens she had been in service for Mrs Farmer and then for Mrs Cholmondeley. Her younger sister Jane worked for Mrs Farmer, and then later for Lady Jersey (Lord Leigh's sister).
Ann died aged 41 on 20 January 1887. She was buried on 25 January, and in June, probate was granted to her father.
James and Hannah's youngest daughter
Emily, who married
Thomas Rench, is buried with him at
B 5.9.
