Thomas Hewitt was the father of Harry Hewitt and Alice Burgess, grandfather of Lucille and Christopher Hewitt, husband of Mary Hewitt, brother to Flo Hewitt and Molly Hewitt. The son of Samuel Hewitt and stepson of Gertie Hewitt, Thomas lost his father and biological mother to TB. He grew up at 3 Coronation Street and served with the Lancashire Fusiliers during the First World War, being sent home in 1918 after a leg injury. He ended a feud between his family and the neighbouring Makepiece family when he married their daughter Mary. Thomas and Mary had three children, Alice, Harry and Frances, who died from scarlet fever as a baby. Thomas and Mary both worked at Hardcastle's Mill and so when the mill went out of business in 1931 the family was pushed into poverty. Mary got a job at the new