The results of my research so far, taking the Jewitt line back to Grimsby in the 1690s. However, most of my research so far as been on my maternal lines in Somerset (mainly around the town of Bridgwater), following the Young, Washer and Gadd families. It's the account of a very ordinary family - I've yet to find anyone even remotely rich or famous - but that doesn't mean there aren't some extraordinary stories that have cropped up, inlcuding the unlikely tale of John Rodgers Jewitt and more common tales of hardship, poverty and the workhouse.