Jonas (Ionas) Chitty (Chittey) (1713-1795)

Dates

Birth: 1713 Wonersh, Surrey, UK
Father: Richard Chitty (Chittey) 1684-1752
Mother: Hanna (Hannah) Chandler 1689-1768

Christening: 16 June 1713 Wonersh, Surrey, UK

Marriage: 28 July 1754 Cranleigh (Cranley), Surrey, UK
Wife: Ann (Anne) Hood b1739-1778

Death: May 1795 Cranleigh, Surrey, UK
Burial: 20 May 1795 Cranleigh, Surrey, UK

Children

Mary Chitty 1761-1762

Notes

Christening of Jonas Chittey in the IGI on 16 June 1713 at Wonersh, Surrey, father Richard Chittey.

Marriage of Jonas Chittey and Ann Lee in the IGI on 25 June 1738 at Cranley, Surrey. Similar information is in the West Surrey Family History Society West Surrey Marriage Index adding both were of this parish and it was by banns.

All the children were christened in Cranleigh, his name being spelt Iones in the case of Anne, and the surname being spelt Chitty in all cases. The mother's name, Anne, is only given for Jonas and James. However the will (below) also mentions a daughter Sarah, and the only possible christening for her is the daughter of Jones Chitty in Shere in 1746 (which fills a gap in the other christenings). The will also mentions Henry, but I can find no christening for him, but he was most likely born about 1743 His wife died in Cranleigh in 1778.

Entry in the West Surrey Family History Society Surrey Burials for Jonas Chitty at Cranleigh on 20 May 1795.

Allan Faint has two entries in RootsWeb WorldConnect for Jonas Chitty born about 1711, father Richard Chitty, and who died in Dunsfold. He also has two entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees with the same information.

I cannot find any record of a Jonas Chitty being buried at Dunsfold (only three Chittys were), but this deduction may have been made from the following will:

Jonas Chitty, the elder of Ewhurst in the County of Surrey, yeoman To my sons, Henry Chitty and Jonas Chitty and the survivor of them and his heirs my farmlands and real estate and the appurtenances situate in the parish of Dunsfold in the occupation of my said son Henry Chitty together with all my goods chattels credits ready money real and personal estate in trust for the following purposes to sell except a large oak chest which I give and bequeath to Jonas Chitty son of my son George Chitty, to pay debts and funeral expenses and pay themselves the sum of 5 pounds a piece as a kind of compensation for not placing them out as apprentices as I have done their brothers and the rest to be divided equally amongst them my said son Henry and Jonas and all my sons and daughters namely George Richard James Ann Sarah and Hannah share and share alike.
DoW 17 April 35GeoIII 1795
Witnesses: Henry Sheerman, the mark of (Reilley) Lewry, Lewis Potter
16 Mar 1799 Henry & Jonas Chitty sworn as executors. Effects do not amount to 100 pounds.

John Nichols had an entry on a website for Jonas Chitty who married Ann Lee on 25 June 1738 in Cranley, Surrey, had nine children (two entries for Hannah, the first of which has the same christening date as George), and died in 1799, and the above will.

Relationship

Jonas Chitty was Felicity's fifth great gandfather.

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