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Thurtell and Related Families
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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