Sarah Jane (Hewlett) Cates (1855 - 1932)

Born 15 Mar 1855 in Hope Town, Abaco, Bahamas

Ancestors

Daughter of Townsend Edmund Hewlett and Sarah Ann (Key) Hewlett

Descendants

Died 19 Nov 1932 at age 77 in Marsh Harbour, Abaco, Bahamas

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Sarah (Hewlett) Cates is part of a Bahamian family.

Biography

Sarah Jane Hewlett was born 15 March 1855 to Townsend Edmund Hewlett and Sarah Ann Key Hewlett in Hope Town, Abaco, Bahamas.^[1] She was listed as a child of Townsend Hewlett in the two wills of her uncles - Charles and Samuel Hewlett - who both passed away in the mid-1870s in New York.

She married Timothy William Cates, son of William Cates and Frances Symonette Cates, about 1870, in Abaco. The couple had children - among them Sarah Frances, William, Robert Henry, Harriet Elizabeth, and Dennis Cates.

Jane Hewlett Cates died in Marsh Harbour, Abaco in November 1932 at 77 years of age.

Sources

1. ↑ Maternal relationship is confirmed by an exact HVR1 match between this Family Tree DNA mtDNA test for Anonymous Curry and this Family Tree DNA mtDNA test of a maternal line cousin Anonymous Key.

• Unsourced family tree handed down to Shelley (Stewart) Leonard.
• Dolly Mae CD, Wyannie Malone Museum, Hope Town, Abaco, Bahamas.
• "Bahamas Civil Registration, 1850-1959," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GRQK-9RK5?cc=1922411&wc=Q4ZP-FM3%3A216280401 : 20 May 2014), Births 1854-1855 > image 168 of 328; Registrar General, Nassau. Birth Record of FEMALE - Sarah Jane Hewlett.
• The Genealogy of Nathan Key, Early Settler of Abaco, Bahamas, compiled by JJ McAleer, Alice Slocum Key, and Oreste Lombardi, 2000, pages 9 and 23.
• "Bahamas Civil Registration, 1850-1959," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-8BHP-RPG?cc=1922411&wc=Q4ZP-N36%3A216283701 : 20 May 2014), Births 1870-1873 > image 140 of 618; Registrar General, Nassau. Birth of a daughter - Sarah Frances - to Jane and Timothy Cates, 30 November 1870.
• New York, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1659-1999 for Charles Hewlett, Queens, Wills of Real Estate, Vol 0021-0024, 1874-1876. https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=try&h=2060567&dbid=8800
• New York, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1659-1999 for Samuel Hewlett, Queens, Real Estate Wills, Vol 0024-0025, 1876-1878. https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=try&h=4104618&dbid=8800
• "Bahamas Civil Registration, 1850-1959," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-8BHG-5P9?cc=1922411&wc=Q4ZP-FM7%3A216283201 : 20 May 2014), Births 1890-1891 > image 248 of 391; Registrar General, Nassau. Birth record of Dennis Cates.
• "Bahamas Civil Registration, 1850-1959," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9RS1-5Y6?cc=1922411&wc=Q4ZP-6TG%3A216294901 : 20 May 2014), Deaths 1930-1933 > image 440 of 581; Registrar General, Nassau.
• Thanks to Ann Carmel for starting this profile.