George Hewitt was the son of Samuel and Dolly Hewitt, who were the first tenants of 3 Coronation Street in 1902. The Hewitt clan was among the worst hit by the Weatherfield TB epidemic; George died aged ten in 1906, a year after his mother. George first appeared in Daran Little and Bill Hill's "Weatherfield Life", published in 1992. Other information is derived from Little's follow-up book, "Around the Coronation Street Houses".