Notes for William EVERITT

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Notes for William EVERITT

According to information received from Peter Murray in 1997, William and Sophia Everitt lived in Lowestoft, where he was a brewer, harbour commissioner, and prominent citizen. They later lived at North Cove Hall, near Beccles, Suffolk County, England, and are both buried at Cove.

His information also shows that George and William Everitt, the eldest brothers of Mary Everitt who married Alfred Thurtell at which time he adopted the surname Murray, themselves took Thurtell wives, sisters of Alfred. The Everitt brothers set up business in Lowestoft, Suffolk, and appear to have played an important part in planning the modernization of the harbour facilities. Gillingwater's History of Lowestoft states that in 1842 the Harbour and navigation of Lowestoft were purchased of the Exchequer Loan Commissioners by Messrs. Cleveland, Everitt, Lincoln, Hickling, and Roe, of Lowestoft, who expended considerable sums in repairs and continued in possession until 1844. In that year they sold the harbour and navigation of Lowestoft to Samuel Morton (later Sir Morton) Peto, who was to become Lowestoft's greatest benefactor, building the railway and improving the harbour. George Everitt died that year (1844) without children, and his brother William afterwards moved with his family to the village of North Cove, near Beccles, Suffolk, where he had acquired the local manor house, North Cove Hall.

North Cove Hall, home of the Everitt family, is described (with a photograph) in Burke's Country Houses as follows: "Sunny red-brick Georgian house with a probable early C17 core. 5 bays, 2 storeys with a parapet. Flanking walls with arcades of blank arches and urns. The Roman Doric porch has a tripartite window above it. One room inside with Rococo plaster ceiling and a back staircase of Chinese Chippendale design. North Cove was the home of the writer Nicholas Everitt. Bought by the father of the present owner, Benjamin Blower, 1940. EVERITT/WCF" [see Walford's County Families].

The descendants of Alfred Murray remained in close contact with this Everitt family. William Everitt, who appears in the history of the Everitt family of Norfolk as the fourth child of George and Jane (Clowes) Everitt of Caister Castle, was born at 3 p.m. on October 17, 1794, at East Caister Castle (vide his tombstone), and died January 18, 1879. Sophia, his wife, was born in 1803 at Hobland Hall, Bradwell, Suffolk, and died March 18, 1891, and was a sister of Alfred Thurtell Murray, both children of John and Anne (Browne) Thurtell. Their marriage took place circa 1824, one of three marriages to take place between children of these two families. William and Sophia Everitt celebrated their golden wedding anniversary at North Cove circa March 1874 as described in a surviving extract from a letter and a local newspaper (see Marge Shearing's `Family Book'). Both are buried at Cove, Suffolk.

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