There are 2 more parameters in the cellrenderer that are passed by the jQWidgets network.
var cellsrenderer = function (row, column, value, defaultHtml, columnSettings, rowData) {
}
The final parameter, rowData, is a JSON object that contains the displayed string values. Therefore, if you have a column with a data field = firstname, you can write:
var firstName = rowData.firstname;
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