The Hissem-Montague Family

Unlike for his siblings, I've found no baptismal records for John, though his existence and relationships are fairly clear. This is a note in the Lancashire Parish Register that says,

"If any bee omitted they have beene cristened att home & not knowne to the Clearke."

John Heysham was named in Henry Lonsdale's biography of Dr. John Heysham of Carlisle. Lonsdale wrote,

"Thus we are enabled to trace the descent of John Heysham, whose life is to occupy these pages, from a citizen of Lancaster, who flourished there in the early part of that century. This gentleman had two sons, Gyles Heysham and John Heysham. They were merchants and shipowners. Gyles had several children, amongst whome were Robert and William, who both went to London in their youth, and became eminent merchants there . . . The second son, John, had also several children -- no less than nine of whom were sons. Some of these, following the commercial instinct of the family, emigrated to America, and there realised fortune and position. One son, Gyles [the father of Dr. Heysham, Lonsdale's subject], maintained the family name at home." - from "The Life of John Heysham, M.D." by Dr. Henry Lonsdale

There was a Heysham family memorial erected in St. Marys church in Lancaster. It had citations both for (19) William Heysham (1667), of Barbabos & London, John's nephew, and for (20) Gyles Heysham (1722), of Lancaster, John's grandson, showing their close relationship.

This descent can be traced down to the Gubbins-Mounsey-Heysham's of Castletown, Cumbria, the Heysham's of India, and those of New York state. As far as I can tell, all the true Heysham's, so spelled, in England and America today are descended from John. All the lines of descent from John's brother, Giles, ended in female heirs. Other lines of the family spelled the name differently.

John Heysham was a shipowner and merchant of Lancaster, Lancashire, England. The following may fit here:

"J. Haysham, jun., to James Hickes. On appearance of 40 sail in the West Bay, the town company and those companies that were in the town were presently in a . . ." - from "Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reigh of Charles II" by Mary Anne Everett Green, of 1939, page 271

The 17th century saw the rapid rise in wealth and social status of the merchant class as trade goods and a nascent industrial revolution overtook in value the lands that had previously determined prestige and power. It must have seemed a topsy-turvy world to the landed aristocracy as their land values and incomes fell, while wages steadily rose, making their stately homes and manors more of a burden than an asset. This was an exciting period for the Heysham family and their fortunes rose to a peak in wealth and social position in these generations.

Angela Heysham notes a will proved for John Heysham in 1687. The following were the children of John Heysham.
(19) Edward Heesham (c1660)
(19) Jane Heighsam (1665), she died at the age of 18
(19) Ann Heesham (1667)
(19) Margritt Heesham (1668)
(19) Ellen Heesham (1672)
(19) Robert Hesam (1673)
(19) William Hesam (1674)
(19) Mary Heisham (1676), died young
(19) Richard Hesam (1677)
(19) Alice Heesham (1680)
(19) Sarah Hesam (1681)
(19) Mary Heighsome (1683), died young
(19) Grace Heighsome (1684), died young

Of Lancaster; a wealthy butcher. I don't have baptismal records for Edward like I do for the rest of John's children, but I think he may have been one of John's sons.

Edward was probably born in about 1660 in Lancaster, Lancashire, England. Edward Heesham married Judith Yates [or Yeats] on 8 [16] November 1690 in Lancaster - International Genealogical Index. She was born in about 1669 in Lancaster. He was also listed in the Borough of Lancaster marriage rolls for 1689-90.

This may be our Edward, below, perambulating the boundaries in 1682 with the mayor and all of the "best" citizens of the town. By the way, the list of perambulators is very long so it is not extraordinary that a butcher, especially a successful one, should be included in it.

"Ad perambulationem Bundar Burgi sive ville Lanc. sexto die June ando R. Rs. Caroli Secdi Aug. &c. xxxiiii. Ano. dni 1682.
Henry Johnes, Gent. Maior
Thomas Medcalfe, Ball.
Robt. Parkinson, Ball.
. . .
Chr. Carus, Esq.
Thos. Carus, Gen
. . .
Robt. Blackeburne [see Thomas Blackburn, above]
John Soothworth, Gen. [they owned Highfield in Lancaster]
. . .
Edw. Heysham, sone of John
. . ."
- from "Remain, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palantine Counties of Lancaster and Chester."

"Heysham, Edward" - from "The Rolls of Freemen of the Borough of Lancaster 1688 to 1840." See his son, Edward, listed below, as a freeman of the borough.

"Quitclaim relating to property on St Mary street, Lancaster
1 May 1697
Parties:
Nicholas Eccleston of Lancaster, yeoman
Edward Heysham of Lancaster, butcher
Property: house, outbuildings and garden
Consideration: L3 6s
Witnesses: Charles Jackson, Andrew Partington, John Kirkham"
- from the Lancashire Record Office

The list of churchwardens for Lancaster names a number of Heyshams, though I can't be certain who they were. Note that the family members I've listed on the Merchants of Lancaster page, that is the up & coming side of the family, were also churchwardens, which brings the tradesmen & merchant sides of the family closer together. The span of years, 1693 to 1715, appears to be only one-generation wide. Were these all brothers/cousins?

"Churchwardens for Lancaster
. . .
1693 John Heysham [Edward's father?]
. . .
1698 Edwd. Heysham [our Edward?]
. . .
1708 Thos. Postlethwait [see Dorothy Postlethwait, below] . . .
1710 Rd. [Richard] Heysham [Edward's brother?]
. . .
1715 Wm. Heysham [Edward's brother? Also for Bulk/Aldcliffe for the same year, below]

. . .
Churchwardens for Bulk and Aldcliffe
. . .
1713 Edw. Heysham
. . .
1715 Wm. Heysham"

- from "Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties"

The UK Archives have a number of references to Edward Heysham of Lancaster, butcher or yeoman. He was clearly a prosperous man, on the rise.

"Evidences of Title:
Bolton le Sands (and Allithwaite)

22 March 1704/5 - "(1) Christopher Butterfield, Edward Heysham and Mary Walker, plaintiffs
(2) James Sharpe and wife, Martha and Richard Turner and wife, Ellen, deforciants
Final concord when (2) acknowledged 2 messuages, 4 messuages, an orchard, 3 gardens, 33a. land, 6a. meadow, 6a. pasture and 4a. moss in Bolton le Sands and Allithwaite to be the right of (1)"

13 June 1705 - "(1) James Sharpe of Lancaster, glazier, and wife, Martha, a daughter of Thomas Hale late of Bolton le Sands and wife, Ellen
(2) Christopher Butterfield of Lancaster, apothecary, Edward Heysham of Lancaster, butcher, and Mary Walker of Allithwaite, widow
Deed to declare the uses of a fine (see RCHY 2/2/2) levied at the previous Assizes and conveying from (1) to (2) to the use of (1) and his heirs a messuage, lands and tenement in Bolton le Sands and Allithwaite; reciting feoffment of 25 Jul. 1655"

2/3 February 1714/15 - "(1) James Sharpe of Lancaster, husbandman, son and heir of James Sharpe of Lancaster, glazier, deceased, James Hadwen of Liverpool, joiner and wife, Elizabeth, and Margaret Platt of Liverpool, widow, the last two mentioned being the daughters of James Sharpe, deceased, Christopher Butterfield of Lancaster, apothecary, and Edward Heysham of Lancaster, butcher, trustees for the sale of the estate of James Sharpe, deceased."

Bulk and Newton

29 January 1706/7 - "(1) Elizabeth Wilson of Caton, widow, and Thomas Jackson of Caton, tanner
(2) Edward Heysham of Lancaster, butcher
Lease for 9 years of a messuage called Bulks-bottom in Bulk late in the occupation of Richard Dickson, excepting a close called Newton Field, containing 50a.
Rent: £16 10s."

16 May 1711 - "(1) Thomas Jackson of Caton, tanner
(2) Edward Heysham of Lancaster, butcher
Assignment of lease of 4 Dec. 1706 (RCHY 2/2/13); reciting (i) lease of 24 Apr. 1681 (RCHY 2/2/12) and (ii) assignment of that lease 4 Dec. 1706 (RCHY 2/2/13)
Consideration: £135
Rents and boons: one half of those recited in lease of 24 Apr. 1681"

17 December 1715 - "(1) Elizabeth Wilson of Caton, widow
(2) Anthony Helme of Lancaster, yeoman
Lease for 7 years of a messuage in Bulk called Bulks Bottome late in the occupation of Richard Dickson and now Edward Heysham and Peers Patchett containing 53a., excepting all the property (details) specified in the assignment of lease to Thomas Jackson 4 Dec. 1706 (RCHY 2/2/13)
Rent: £20"

17 January 1717 - "(1) Elizabeth Wilson of Caton; widow
(2) Edward Heysham of Lancaster, butcher
Assignment of lease of 24 Apr. 1681 (RCHY 2/2/12) excepting the term for 7 years granted to Anthony Helme 17 Dec. 1715 (RCHY 2/2/16) and excepting that part already assigned to Thomas Jackson and subsequently by him to Edward Heysham, i.e. half of the said messuage; reciting (i) lease of 24 Apr. 1681 (RCHY 2/2/12); (ii) assignment of lease 16 May 1711 (RCHY 2/2/15); (iii) lease 17 Dec. 1715 (RCHY 2/2/16)
Consideration: £100
Rents and boons: half of those recited in lease of 24 Apr. 1681 (RCHY 2/2/12)" - from "Hornby Catholic Mission Papers (St Mary's Church)" of Lancaster.

24 August 1718 - "(1) Edward Heysham of Lancaster, yeoman
(2) John Ashton of Rawcliffe, yeoman
Articles of agreement that (1) assigns to (2) all his right title, etc., to a messuage in Bulk containing 52a. now in the possession of ?Edward Jackson of Bulk for the annual rent of £50 determinable from 2 Feb. 1709 (excepting the remainder of Edward Jackson's term) to hold to (2) for the remainder of the term cited in lease of 24 Apr. 1681 (RCHY 2/2/12) Consideration: £300"

1 December 1730 - "(1) Edward Heysham of Lancaster, yeoman
(2) William Elletson of Lancaster, esq.
Assignment of lease of 24 Apr. 1681 (RCHY 2/2/12) with yearly rents and boons therein contained; reciting (i) lease of 24 Apr. 1681 (RCHY 2/2/12); (ii) lease (of first moiety) 4 Dec. 1706 (RCHY 2/2/13); (iii) assignment of lease 16 May 1711 (RCHY 2/2/15); (iv) assignment of lease 17 Jan. 1716/17 (RCHY 2/2/17)
Consideration: £300" - from the papers of the Hornby Catholic Mission of St Mary's Church, Lancaster

Edward (Ned) Heysham appears, in the diary entries below, to be a publican - "Went to dine . . . att Ned Heyshame's" - and a butcher, of Lancaster. The diary is of Thomas Tyldesley, of Lancashire, a Catholic country gentleman and Jacobite. He had residences in Garstang and Blackpool.

1717. "October 15. — Ahnoming [all morning]] in the house ; affter non [noon] went to my gard** [garden]; in the eivening spent 7d. att Ned Heysham's, with John Turton, cloths-"

"October 18. — Went early to meet Brors [brothers] Dalton and ffrost att Cockshutt's; after killing a hare, without sporte, wee went to Gaugath, Josua Tounson with us, who lent mee his bald mare; we spent 1s. 6d., us 8 each; thenoe to PeniBtrete [Penny-street, in Lancaster], where, with honest Carles, of Wire side [Wyreside], and Ned Pedder, att door, and spend Id.; soe home ; seeing Ned Heysham had mach beaffe [much beef] on his hands, I bought 84 pounds pro 5s.; soe home."
[footnote]
"Gaugath," or Galgate, is situated on the Lancaster and Preston high road, 4 miles 8. of the former town."

1718. "April 23. — Went to dine with the commission pro Quarmore sut [suit], att Ned Heyshame's, viz. — Mr. Harison and Mr. Chambers pro Smith, and Mr. Husband and Mr. Lanckton pro Mrs. Standish; I gave evidence pro Smith, &c.; thence home; Ben. Comey alnight with mee."

"June 11.— Alday in the house; accounted with Hen. Wayles, and pd him all due; accounted lickwise with Ned Heysham; went to beed at seven, in ord to hunt fox, att Ellal Milles."

"August 31. — Pd to John Bracon 2s. ffor my black mare's trespass; then went with Mayr, Record, and Alderman, to meet Mr. Will Hey'm [Heysham] and his son; spent with lawyr Rigby, Dunlop, and old Catchall 6d., att y' Sim; soe to Mr. Beardsworth's, where John Hathortwaite pd 2s. 6d. on old Tho. Baines's business; soe to beed."
[footnote]
The Mayor of Lancaster this year was Br. John Bryer.— William Heysham wsa born at Lancaster, and, with his brother Bobert, became an eminent nierchant in London. He represented Lancaster from 1705 until his death in 1727. Robert served for the same borough from 1701 to 1714. In the Parish Church of Lancaster there is a marble tablet bearing the following inscription: "Sacred to the memory of William Heysham, Esq., formerly M.P. for the borough, ob. 7 July, 1726. He gave an estate near this town called The Greaves to the Mayor, Recorder, and three senior Aldermen, in trust, to divide the rent annually amongst eight poor ancient men of this borough. To commemorate the name and munificence of the donor this monument is erected by the trustees." Another monument commemorates Giles Heysham, of Lancaster, who died 1770, aged 60, and also his son John Heysham, M.D., who died 1834, aged 81. — A Thomas Baynes was Mayor of Lancaster in 1699, and may have been the person alluded to in the Diary.

"September primo. — Alday in the toun ; after din' younge Mr. Hey m [William Heysham Jr.] call' with other and drank a bottle of wine. In the evening went to Mr. Will Hey'm, and stayd with him, the mayr' and others, till ten; Soe to beed."

1719. "April 7. — Alday in the house, accounted with Ned Heysham, and am £2Q 9s. Od. in his debt, but gave him a bill pro £15 on Dick Kellet. Gave Ned l£y: Is. to bye inryes. Gave Mrs. 7s. 6d. to bye apples, corkes, and mif' pd Is. pro hopes. "B' Margery Pick part of her wages, 14s. 6d. Soe to beed."

"May 29. — Almoming in the house till eleven; then went into the market; bought a calve's head, a quarts of lambe, a necke and brest of mutton, of Ned Heysham, and, in the same shop, bought a young fox for 2s.; and then about 8, went Mr. B dsworth, ffirst to y' More colpitts, thence to y' Grage colepitts, and affter some stay there, thence home and too beed."

- from "The Tyldesley Diary: Personal Records of Thomas Tyldesley (grandson of Sir Thomas Tyldesley, the Royalist) During the years 1713-1814"

"Sometimes Tyldesley could not pay his tradesmen. Edward Heysham, a butcher had sold him meat and there had to be some accounting between them the total bill came to £23 9s. 0d., but Tyldesley had no funds and gave in lieu a bill of £15 on Richard Kellet. The overall impression of the diary is . . . " - from " The Tyldesleys of Lancashire: The Rise and Fall of a Great Patrician Family" by John Lunn

Here's a business deal not mentioned in the list above.

"By indentures of lease and release, bearing date 2d February 1726, between Bryan Yeates, of the first part ; Edward Heysham, and Margaret Smith, widow, . . ." - from "Parliamentary Papers" of 1903

Edward died and was buried on 11 January 1746 in Lancaster. I also have "Heysham, Edward, of Lancaster, A . . . 1747." - from "Lancashire Wills in the Archdeaconry of Richmond."

But then, where does the following fit?

30 July 1746. "William Harrison, William Walton, John Townson and John Lawson, gents, plaintiffs; Edward Heysham and Alice his wife, Thomas Rowlandson and Alice is wife, Thomas Fletcher and John Fletcher, deforciants: final concord concerning a moiety of a messuage and burgage plot and two other messuages and land and woodlands in Lancaster and Quernmore and Highfield in Halton
Consideration: £266 13s 4d"

His children with Judith Yates were,
(20) John Heysham (1691), who died young
(20) Grace Heysam (1693), who died young
(20) Robert Heysam (1694)
(20) William Heesham (1696), who had a family
(20) Judith Hesham (1698)
(20) Anne Heysham (1700)
(20) Edward Heysham Jr. (1702), who reached adulthood
(20) Richard Heysham (1703/4), who had a family
(20) John Heysham (1706/7)
(20) Thomas Heysham (1709), who died young
(20) Gyles Heysham (1710)
(20) Christopher Heysham (1713), who died young

His children with Alice Topham were,
(20) Grace Heysham (1717)
(20) Christopher Heysham (1718)
(20) Ellen Heysham (1720)
(20) James Heysham (1722)
(20) Joshua Heysham (1725)
(20) Elizabeth Heysham (1730)

John Heysham, the son of Edward heysham, was christened on 8 [6] October 1691 in Saint Mary, Lancaster - International Genealogical Index. "Jno s. of Edwd Heysam of Lancaster" was buried on 13 February 1691/2.

Grace Heysam, the daughter of Edward Heysam, was christened on 14 March 1692/3 in Saint Mary, Lancaster - International Genealogical Index. Grace, the daughter of Edward Heysam of Lancaster was buried on 18 March 1692/3.

Robert Heysam, the son of Edward Heysam, was christened on 1 July 1694 in Saint Mary, Lancaster - International Genealogical Index. A yeoman. He was married in 1718/19 in Lancaster.

William Heesham, whose father was Edward, was baptized on 29 April 1696 at St. Mary’s, in Lancaster - International Genealogical Index. A William Heysham of Lancaster, butcher, was married in 1715/6 in the borough of Lancaster. Our William would have been only twenty years old at this time. I also have a reference which was probably for the same marriage: a Will Heysham married Agnes Hudson of Holm Lyc [Lancashire?] on 1 January 1716 in Bolton Le Sands, Lancashire. Holm is near Huddersfield, which is in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

I also have a Wm. Heysham who married Margt. Bleasdale on 15 September 1730 at St. Marys, Lancaster. A second marriage perhaps? If true, that would make Margaret the mother of Jane, below.

William's children were,
(21) William Heysham (after 1715), perhaps
(21) Edward Heysham (1718)
(21) Thomas Heysham (1720)
(21) Judith Heysham (1723), who died young
(21) Jane Heysham (1727), who died young
(21) Jane Heysham (1732)

I have a Robert Heysham who was married in 1767/8. He was a carpenter, living in Liverpool, Lancashire, the son of William Heysham. Could this be the mariner who was a son of William Heysham and Dorothy Postelthwaite, below?

The son of William Jr. of Lancaster. He was born on 6 April 1718.

"Tho: s. of Willm Heysham Junr of Lancr 27 Mar 1720" - from the Lancashire Parish Register of Baptisms. "Thomas Heysham married Ann Statter on 11 June 1747 in St. Mary’s, Lancaster, England - from the Lancaster Parish Register of Marriages. This marriage was also recorded as "Heysham, Thomas, butcher & Ann Statter, both Lancaster 10 Jun 1747" from "Marriage Bonds" in the records of the Archdeaconry of Richmond. Thomas died before 1767. His son William’s marriage of that date lists his father as “Thomas, late of Lancaster, a butcher.”

Some researchers have conjectured that he was the Thomas Heysham who lived in Northampton county, Pennsylvania at the time of the 1790 census. I think I can show that the Thomas Heysham listed here died in Lancaster, having never emigrated. He had two children,
(22) Edward Heysham (1748)
(22) William Heysham (1750)

"Edward s. of Thos Heysham of L: 11 Sep 1748" - from the Lancashire Parish Register of Baptisms. I suspect he died young.

The son of Thomas Heysham. He was christened in April 1750 in St. Mary’s, Lancaster, Lancashire, England. "1767-8 Heysham, Wm., of Lancaster, fflaxman, son of Thos., late of Lancaster, butcher" - from "Marriages" as recorded in the "Freemen of the Borough of Lancaster, 1688-1840."

She was the daughter of William Jr. of Lancaster. She was born on 17 November 1723. She died and was buried on 5 October 1725.

She was the daughter of William Jr. of Lancaster. She was born on 26 March 1727. She was later listed as a daughter of William of Lancaster, buried on 24 May 1728.

The daughter of William of Lancaster. She was born on 24 September 1732. It was not uncommon to re-use the name of a dead child. A Jane Heysham of Lancaster, spinster, had her will probated in 1789 - from "A List of the Lancashire Wills, Proved Within the Archdeaconry of Richmond." If this was our Jane she would have been 57 years old.

Judith Hesham, whose father was Edward, was baptized on 13 January 1698 in Lancaster - International Genealogical Index/Lancaster Parish Register of Baptisms.

Anne Heysham, whose father was Edward, was christened on 12 May 1700 in Saint Mary, Lancaster - International Genealogical Index.

On 28 July 1729 a marriage was performed between "Matthew Rawlinson, of Cartmel, husbandman, and Ann Heysham, of Lancaster, spinster." The bondsman was "John Dawson (Danson), of Lancaster, inn keeper. At Lancaster p. church. Witnesses: J. Fenton, John Brown." - from "Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire."

Cartmel is a small town and parish in the Ulverstone district of Lancashire. It is in a section of old Lancashire, across Morecombe Bay, near Furness. It is now part of Cumbria. Furness was at the center of the early iron trade. A flourishing coastal shipping grew up there to service Lancaster and Liverpool.

A husbandmen was the lowest of the orders, which were gentleman, yeoman and husbandmen. As such, Matthew may have been a more distant relation of the merchant Rawlinson's of Lancaster or the attorney Rawlinson's of Cartmel, both described below. There was a large Rawlinson family in Lancaster, including innkeepers, woolen drapers, merchants, husbandmen, ship carpenters, butchers, mariners, laborers and gentlemen. Since Matthew's marriage bondsman was an innkeeper, perhaps that's the side of the family we should look into.

The Sugar Warehouses of Lancaster John Hodgson sold the first sugarhouse on St Leonardgate street, with its brewhouse and warehouse, to John Lawson, a local merchant and Quaker, probably some time before 1680. Lawson built a bridge over the mill stream, and in 1680 a wharf, Lawson's Quay, on the Green Ayre. In February 1766, Robert Foxcroft of Lancaster leased his sugarhouse further along St Leonard Gate to five Lancaster gentlemen namely Robert Lawson, Abraham Rawlinson, Henry Hargreaves, Miles Birkett, and George Foxcroft, and Luke Astley a grocer of Preston. The whole, possibly known as the Sugarhouse Company, being divided equally into six shares. In 1769, Lawson, Rawlinson and Hargreaves bought out Birkett and Foxcroft, and in 1772 Rawlinson and Hargreaves bought the Astley share. From Lancaster Sugar Houses.

Edward Heysham, whose father was Edward, was christened on 29 March 1702 in Saint Mary, Lancaster. He married in 1726/27 - International Genealogical Index. I don't have a date for the following reference, though its probably around 1735.

"Robert Gornall, barber and Elizabeth Askew, spr., aged 24 years, both of Lancaster. Bndsman: Edwd. Heysham, junr. of Lancaster. At Lancaster. Witn: J. Fenton, John Brown."

". . . Bndsmn.: Edward Heysham of Lancaster, yeo. At Cartmel. Witn: J. Fenton, Wm. Bryer." - from the "Marriage Bonds" recorded in the Archdeaconry of Richmond.

"Heysham, Edward, of Lancaster, son of Edwd." - from "The Rolls of Freemen of the Borough of Lancaster 1688 to 1840."

Richard Heysham, the son of Edward, was christened on 12 March 1704 in Saint Mary, Lancaster - International Genealogical Index. I have a Richard Heysham who married in 1738/9. He was listed as a house carpenter, as was his son, below.

I also have a Richd Heysham, a house carpenter, who married Ann Whiteside on 8 October 1743 in Lancaster. This may be a different man or a second marriage.

Another reference, more difficult to decipher, is "Apr. 25 Richard Heysham, house carpenter, L." - from Publications of the Lancashire Parish Register Society. I think that may refer to his death. Richard Heysham of Lancaster, house carpenter, had his will probated in 1780, probably on 7 June 1780 - from "A List of Lancashire WIlls, Proved Within the Archdeaconry of Richmond." His children were,
(21) Edward Heysham (1740), of Liverpool??
(21) William Heysham (1742), of Liverpool??
(21) Elizabeth Heysham (1743), of Liverpool??
(21) Betty Heysham (1744)
(21) Ann & Dorothy Heysham (1746)
(21) William Heysham (1752), of Lancaster??

Edward, the son of Richard, was born on 11 November 1740 and baptized on 25 November 1740 at St. Nicholas church, Liverpool, Lancashire. A number of the son's and grandsons of (18) John Heysham moved to Liverpool as that port took the commercial lead from Lancaster. Edward died on 25 April 1741.

William, the son of Richard Heysham, was born on 15 February 1742 and baptized on 16 March 1742 at St. Nicholas church, Liverpool, Lancashire.

Elizabeth, the daughter of Richard Heysham, was born on 25 September 1743 and baptized on 20 October 1743 at St. Nicholas church, Liverpool, Lancashire.

She was baptized on 9 September 1744 in Lancaster.

Two daughters of Richard baptized on 4 August 1746. Dorothy died and was buried on 21 November 1747 in Lancaster. I don't know what became of Ann.

William, the son of Richard Heysham, was christened on 14 June 1752 in St. Mary’s, Lancaster, Lancashire, England. William, son of Richard, was married in 1766/7 in Lancaster. He seems a trifle young for that. He was listed as a house carpenter.

From the records of the Archdeanery of Richmond is the name William Heysham associated with the date 30 January 1796. I assume that was the date of the probate of his will.

John Heysham, whose father was Edward, was christened on 2 February 1707 in Saint Mary, Lancaster - International Genealogical Index. He may have died and was buried on 20 September 1723 in Lancaster. Alternatively I have a John Heysham, butcher, who married in 1729-30.

Thomas, son of Edwd Heysham of Lancaster, was christened on 2 October 1709 in Saint Mary, Lancaster - International Genealogical Index/Lancashire Parish Register of Baptisms. "Tho: s. of Edwd HeyshamL: 15 May 1710" - from the Lancashire Parish Register of Burials.

Gyles Heysham, whose father was Edward, was christened on 10 December 1710 in Saint Mary, Lancaster - International Genealogical Index.

Christopher Heysham, whose father was Edward, was baptized on 7 June 1713 in Lancaster - International Genealogical Index. He died and was buried on 17 June 1718.

She would have been the first child of Alice Topham. Grace Heysham, the daughter of Edward, was baptized on 14 July 1717 in Lancaster. She died and was buried on 31 July 1717 - International Genealogical Index.

Christopher Heysham, the son of Edward, was baptized on 27 July 1718 in Lancaster - International Genealogical Index. Christopher Heysham married Mary Hunter on 22 January 1737 at Walton On the Hill, Lancashire.

Eliza., the daughter of Christopher Heysham, was born on 29 May 1740 and baptized on 10 June 1740 at St. Peter church, Liverpool.

Ellen Heysham, the daughter of Edward, was baptized on 27 November 1720 in Lancaster - International Genealogical Index.

James Heysham, the son of Edward, was baptized on 7 October 1722 in Lancaster - International Genealogical Index.

Joshua Heysham, the son of Edward, was baptized on 25 July 1725 in Lancaster - International Genealogical Index.

Elizabeth Heysham, the daughter of Edward, was baptized on 28 June 1730 in Lancaster - International Genealogical Index.

An Elizabeth Heysham married James Barrow on 11 September 1746 at St. Nicholas church, Liverpool. She seems a bit young here, just 16 and a half, but perhaps there was a bit of confusion between Julian and Gregorian dates in order to give her another year. Note that a number of the family had moved to Liverpool by this time. Also, I don't have any other Elizabeth who fits any better, or even as well.

James Barrow of Liverpool was a merchant ship's captain, like so many of Elizabeth's relatives. On 30 October 1752 a list of ships operating out of Liverpool harbor, and their present commanders, was assembled. It included the names James Barrow, commanding the HAPPY, and Giles Heysham commanding the ELIZABETH. While I don't have any records to substantiate this, that may indicate that Elizabeth could be the daughter of William Heysham, Edward's younger brother, and therefore the sister of Gyles Heysham; both branches of the family were in the city - including William's other sons, Robert and Richard.

On 26 February 1757 James and John Barrow granted a deed to create a Quaker burial ground in Swarthmore to Joseph Goad, John Fell and five other Quakers. - from "Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaelogical . . ." I don't know that this was the same Barrow.

In 1769 "The Brigantine FANNY, Capt. Barrow, from Liverpool, arrived at Pensacola the 2d instant." - from "Citizens and Immigrants - South Carolina" by Mary Bondurant Warren.

Under Bankruptcies in "The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer" by Isaac Kimber,

1785. "William Crofdale and James Barrow, both now or late of Liverpool, merchants and partners."

James may have continued his sea-going ways as late as 1798 (though this sounds like a descendent):

"Fancy and ambition painted, at the termination of a West Indian voyage, new forms of pleasure and of gain; and I embarked with delight on board the COMET, Captain Barrow, at Liverpool, on the 25th December, 1798. For many days after we left the Mersey I was much troubled by sea-sickness." - from "A Voyage to Demerary" by Henry Bolingbroke and Vincent Roth

"Jane Heighsam fa. of John of Lanc: . . . 11 October 1665," baptized in Saint Mary, Lancaster. "Jane d. of John Heighsome of Lancr . . . 9 June 1683" - from Burials in Lancashire Parish Registers in "Lancashire Parish Register Society."

"Anne Heesham fa. John of Lanc: . . . 13 Janaury 1667," baptized at St. Mary’s, Lancaster, Lancashire, England.

I have an Anne Heysham, daughter of a John Heysham of Lancaster, who married Thomas Mackerall on 28 January 1693 - from the LDS database. Thomas was the son of Robert and Alise Mackerell. Anne and Thomas had a son, William, born circa 1697.

The Mackerall's [Mackerell, Macerell, Mackrell, Macharell, Machell] were an old merchant family Lancaster. A "Mr. Thomas Mackerall" was listed in 1683 as one of "24 Gent. of the Parish of Lancaster representative of ye Parish." - from "Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palantine Counties of Lancaster . . ." The association of the family's continued. Ann's brother, William, had a son, Christopher, whose daughter, Jane, married James Machell in 1775 in Lancaster.

Second Ann married John Thornton, a husbandman at Aldcliffe. Note that the Thorntons and Heyshams intermarried a number of times during this period. She was buried on 21 September 1751 at St. Mary’s church, Lancaster.

"Margritt Heesham fa. John of Lanc: . . . 6 September 1668," baptized at St. Mary’s, Lancaster, Lancashire, England. "Lenard Jackson & Margret Heeshem, both of Lancaster by Lycenc: . . . 30 November 1690," married at St. Mary, Lancaster. Her elder brother, Edward, married just 8 days prior.

"Ellen Heesham fa. John of Lanc: . . . 17 March 1672," baptized at St. Mary’s, Lancaster, Lancashire, England.

"Robart, f. John Hesam of this Towne [Lancaster] . . . 28 September 1673." - from Baptisms, "Lancaster Parish Registers." He may have married in about 1687/8 in Lancaster. More likely 1699/1700 based on his chidren's ages.

The following may be our Robert.

14 April 1703. "John Anyon as tidesman and porter at Lancaster loco Robert Heysom dismissed. " - from "Calendar of Treasury Books"

There was a Robert Heysham who was an usher, or assistant school master, at the Lancaster Royal Grammar school from 1714 to 1717. Two teachers were employed during this period, one teaching elements of the old Latin Trivium, Greek & Latin, Rhetoric and Logic, and the other teaching Mathematics. A salary of about 20 pounds a year, or half of what the schoolmaster made, was included with this post.

"Anno 1472, a Grammar School [was] Founded here by John Gardniner . . . The School-house was rebuilt in 1684 . . . The Sal.[ary] of [the] Under Master is 15l p.[er] an.[num;] 10l p.[er] an.[num] of wch is paid out of some houses in London, and 5l p.[er] an.[num is [the] Int.[erest] of money given by Mr. Heysham, and paid by ye Town." - from "Notitia Cestriensis" by Francis Gastrell and F.R. Raines

In the year 1700 Giles Heysham, merchant, had provided £100 to fund the usher's pay. This was probably Robert's cousin, the merchant of London and brother to Robert & William Heysham, who died in 1703.

Note, a Robert Hysham had a son, Jon. Hysham, who was born on 16 January 1704 and christened the next day at St. Nicholas, Liverpool, Lancashire. Jon died on 16 June 1704. Might Robert have moved to Liverpool? It was overtaking Lancaster as a commercial hub at this time. Robert's brother, William, had a son, Robert, a merchant/ship's captain, who moved to Liverpool, but that would have been around 1740.

I have a "Heyshem, Robert, of Lancaster, A . . . 1728" - from "Lancashire Wills in the Archdeaconry of Richmond."

Ellen Heysham, the daughter of Robert, was christened on 16 March 1701 in Saint Mary, Lancaster.

"William f. John Hesam of Lancaster . . . 25 December 1674," baptized in Saint Mary, Lancaster.

A William Heysham, referred to in the 'Freemen of the Borough of Lancaster' as William Sr., married in 1695-6. This was not Gyles son, (19) William Heysham (1666) of Barbados, who married Elizabeth Brockden in 1687 in Barbados and did not return to England until 1703/4. This could be our William, he would have been 21 years old. and he did not marry Dorothy Postelthwaite, below, until 1710. This citation doesn't seem to fit anywhere else and the use of the name "William Sr.," like that in birth registers below for our William, make this seem likely.

However that may be, "Wm. Heysham of Lancr." married "Dorothy Postlethwaite of Skirton," on 11 June 1709 in Saint Mary, Lancaster. This man was, without a doubt, the father of William Heysham of Philadelphia, below, whose own son had the middle name Postelthwaite.

William was titled an Esquire, which, I think, is important because it marks him not only as the gentleman he was, but as the member of the most distinguished branch of the family and a descendent of the mayor of Lancaster.

"Bdsm.: John Brown, of Lancaster, yeo. At Lancaster. Witn.: Willm. Heysham, Jas. Thompson." - from "Marriage Bonds for the Deaneries of Lonsdale, Kendal, Furness and Copeland."

William may have been a merchant and a ship-captain, as were his father and his sons.

In "1715 Wm. Heysham"" was a churchwarden.

William died and was buried on 21 March 1727 leaving his wife to raise a numerous family. I have a "Heysham, William, of Lancaster, A . . . Admon 1728" - from "Lancashire Wills in the Archdeaconry of Richmond."

The following were the children of William Heysham. Note that if we discount the first Thomas, who died young, we are left with the nine sons of Lonsdale's biography.
(20) Edward Heysham (1711), who died young
(20) John Heysham (1712), who may have died young
(20) Ann Heysham (1713)
(20) Thomas Heysham (1715), who probably died young
(20) Robert Heysham (1717)
(20) Richard Heysham (1719)
(20) Thomas Heysham (1720)
(20) William Heysham (1721)
(20) Gyles Heysham (1722)
(20) Christopher Heysham (1724/5)
(20) Benjamin Heysham (1728), who may have died young

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Edward Heysham, whose father was William, was christened on 24 February 1711 in Saint Mary, Lancaster. I have a burial listed the same day.

John, the son of William Heysham of Lancaster, was christened on 2 March 1712 in St. Mary’s, Lancaster, Lancashire, England. I don't know if this fits here, the date is a little late, but John Heysham married Catherine Bateson on 10 October 1758 in Garstang.

The daughter of William of Lancaster. She was christened on 11 October 1713 in St. Mary’s, Lancaster, Lancashire, England.

On "18 Apr 1734 William Goad, sailor and Ann Heysham, spr. both of Lanc. Bndsmn.: Thos. Gibson of Lanc. Cooper. At p. church, Lanc. Witn.: J. Fenton." - from the "Marriage Bonds" recorded in the Archdeaconry of Richmond.

William Goad of Lancaster was baptized at Aldingham on 2 March 1702. He was the son of William Goad, a ship carpenter from Furness, north of Lancaster.

"The Goad family of Furness was very numerous and one of the oldest in the district. The first local reference to the name is fund at Aldingham in 1390." - footnote from "The Household Account Book of Sarah Fell"

"Fell's Early Iron Industry in Furness has a tantalizing reference to 'William Goad, a Furness ship carpenter' employed in Scotland about 1728 . . .
. . . was not unusual for the sons of William Goad to go to sea or be involved in trades connected with the sea. The names of James, William, John and Richard can all be found as masters of vessels in the shipping documents of their time . . .
. . . The will of James, the eldest son of William, was signed on 6 April 1751, and he was described as of Grange in the parish of Cartmel, mariner. 'Captain' James Goad was . . .
. . . the death of James Goad in 1751 had not yet caused the alteration of the register, as the law directed; the vessel is given as owned by 'Richard Goad and Co.', and the register date of 1746."
. . . In 1733 William Goad of Lancaster [our William], ship's carpenter, was a bondsman in the marriage of Thomas Gibson of Lancaster, cooper [who was bondsman to the Goad-Heysham marriage above]. In 1734 William swore a bond for his own [marriage] . . .

- from "Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire."

William Goad Jr. was a mariner, like his brothers and the men of his wife's family. "William Goad, of Lancaster, mariner" became one of the Freemen of the Borough of Lancaster on 21 January 1757. On 18 November 1760 John Russel of Lancaster, yeoman, and Jane his wife, sold "a dwelling house with the brewhouse upon St. John's Quay, Lancaster -- to be sold in order to pay debts of L80 to William Goad of Lancaster, mariner." - from British History Online. This reference is the only one I find to a St. John's Quay. The author's may have meant St. George's Quay.

Ann died and was buried at St. Mary, Lancaster on 25 December 1771. The only William Goad in the St. Mary burial ground was marked "died a lunatic," and was buried on 16 May 1778. No will or letters of adminstration have been found.

By the way, John Goad, Wiliam's younger brother and a captain in the West Indies trade, was one of the first to move his operations to the burgeoning port of Liverpool. In 1752 he took out his first share in a Liverpool slave ship, the FERRET. He took part in 45 ventures until his death in 1777. - from "Liverpool and Transatlantic Slavery" by David Richardson, Anthony Tibbles and Suzanne Schwarz.

Thomas, the son of William Heysham of Lancaster, was christened on 3 July 1715 in St. Mary’s, Lancaster, Lancashire, England. He probably died young, if we assume the Thomas (1720), below, is correct.

Robert, the son of William Heysham Sr. of Lancaster, was christened on 14 April 1717 in St. Mary’s, Lancaster, Lancashire, England. I suspect just as William's sons Thomas, William and Christopher became mariners and moved, first, to Hull, and then on to New York, Robert and Richard, below, also became mariners and moved south to the increasingly more prosperous port of Liverpool. Note that Liverpool overtook Lancaster as the chief port of northwestern England around this time as Lancaster silted up. Robert's younger brother, Gyles, operated out of Liverpool while captain of the ELIZABETH, though I'm under the impression that he lived in Lancaster.

In a Liverpool Directory of 1766 as Robert Heysham, coal merchant [via sea, i.e. the coastal trade]. Another version of this directory for 1766 lists him as "Heysham, Robert, coal merchant, old church yard."

Robert Heysham of Liverpool was a mariner whose will was proved in 1773 - from "List of the Wills Now Preserved in the Probate Registry, Chester, From the Year 1761 to 1780 Inclusive. List of "Infra" Wills (or Those in Which the Personalty Was Under £40) Now Preserved at The Probate Court, Chester. 1701-1720."

Margaret, widow of Robert Heysham, died in 1748. I haven't found any children for Robert and Margaret. In the same reference, above, there was a Margaret Heysham of Liverpool, widow, whose will was proved in 1788. "Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire" lists the following: "Further sales of property in Tower Gardens [Tower of Liverpool, a fortified house belonging to the Stanley family which stood on the river bank] were made by the Rev. John Clayton to Margaret, widow of Robert Heysham (died in 1748), and to Thomas Staniforth, merchant." Why the long delay in proving the will? Or is this a typo, 1748 is actually 1788?

Note: there was a Jon. Hysham, the son of Robert Hysham, who was born on 16 January 1704 and christened the next day at St. Nicholas, Liverpool, Lancashire. He died on 16 June 1704. Who was this Robert Heysham/Hysham?

This Robert Heysham of Liverpool, probably the son of Robert, was also a mariner. His will was proved in 1782 - from "List of the Wills Now Preserved in the Probate Registry, Chester. From the Year 1791 to 1800 Inclusive." However, there is also a "Heysham, Robert, of Liverpool, mariner" whose will was "admon." in 1792. Is this a typo for 1782, or vice versa?

An Anne Heysham, who was probably Robert Jr.'s wife, died in 1801 - from "Part 1 Monumental Inscriptions. Holford v. Holford Re Holford Estates (S.C.P., Henry 8th, Bundle 21, No. 40; and Bundles 24, No. 337, and 26, No. 82)," Cheshire, England. A Richard Yerwood, gent, is mentioned in connection with this monument.

Peter Heysham, no parent's names given, was baptized on 14 April 1803 at St. Peter's church, Liverpool. He was 13 years old at the time.

Richard, the son of William Heysham of Lancaster, was christened on 1 March 1719 in St. Mary’s, Lancaster, Lancashire, England.

On 26 August 1734 Richard Heysham married Elizabeth Harrison.

"Richard Heysham of Liverpool, mariner and Elizabeth Harrison of Preston, single woman. Bndsmn.: John Harrison of Preston, gent. At p. church or chapel of Preston. Witn.: Saml. Peploe." - from "Marriage Bonds for the Deaneries of Lonsdale, Kendale, Furness and Copeland"

Richard Heysham, of Liverpool, mariner, had his will proved in 1755 - from "List of the Wills Now Preserved in the Probate Registry, Chester, From the Year 1761 to 1780 Inclusive. List of "Infra" Wills (or Those in Which the Personalty Was Under £40) Now Preserved at The Probate Court, Chester. 1701-1720." This occupation is most appropriate for a son on a prosperous Lancaster merchant and aligns well with what we know of the occupations of the rest of John's sons.

Thomas Heysham, the son of William, was christened on 27 March 1720 in Saint Mary, Lancaster. He emigrated to America with his brothers, William & Christopher, in the 1740's. See "The William Heysham Line" for more information.

"Willm. son of Willm. Heysham of Lancr, gent." was christened on 26 February 1721 (1720) in Saint Mary, Lancaster. He emigrated to America with his brothers, Thomas & Christopher, in the 1740's. See "The William Heysham Line" for more information.

Or Giles. "Gyles son of Willm. Heysham senr. of Lancr" was christened on 25 March 1722 in St. Mary’s, Lancaster, Lancashire, England. Documents referenced below indicate that he was 65 years old at his death in 1787, confirming his birth in about 1722.

A mariner and a merchant, like his brothers, he "shared in the prosperity that attended Lancaster in her extensive sugar trade and other commercial relations." Lonsdale's biography of his son said of him that "like other men of bold enterprise, he was not uniformly successful in his commercial undertakings." Does this imply a bankruptcy? His lack of success may have spurred his son John into medicine vice trade.

From The Philadelphia Gazette of 30 April 1747,

"Snow JANE, Giles Heysham commander, will sail for Liverpool; for freight or passage agree with Israel Pemberton, Jr., or said commander."

The following reference is also from America in 1747 and probably preceded the voyage announced above:

"1747 [First month] . . . 30th. A Lovely day. Waited upon the Governor [footnote: George Thomas, a planter in the West Indies, assumed the govenorhsip of Pennsylvania by appointment of the Penn brothers in 1738] in the morning with a Register for our new Snow Prince William, wth he readily sign'd, & wish'd us Good Success with her. Then I went to my plantation. In the afternnon saw Comp go to Sam Parr's, so I walk'd over to see them, & after drinking Tea there, they came & spent some time with me, vis. Jn Kinsey, Jacob Giles, Is Pemberton, Junr, Capt Heysham, & I. Green-" - from "Hannah Logan's Courtship, A True Narrative: The Wooing of the Daughter of James Logan, Colonial . . ." by John Smith.

A Snow Pronounced snoo or snaw, and often rendered as snow-brig. The largest of the two-masted ships in the 18th century, the Snow was known for being 'extremely convenient for navigation' (Culver 1935: 235). The sails and rigging on its two masts are similar to those of the main and fore-masts of a ship-rigged (three-masted) vessel. However, unlike a Brig, a third, smaller mast was stepped onto the deck and held a trysail (similar to a mizzen sail on a ship-rigged vessel). The Snow was very similar in rigging to the Brig, and some vessels (known as hermaphrodites) could be changed from Brig to Snow and vice-versa with minor modifications.

Here is another vessel that Giles commanded in 1747.

1747. "July 6; Vessel: Snow Lark; Master: Giles Heysham; Owners: Giles Heysham/Miles Berket/Abraham Rollinson/all of Lancaster, Great Britain; Where built: Philadelphia; Tons: 70" - from "Ship Registers for the Port of Philadelphia, 1726-1775" in "The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography"

In about the year 1750 Giles married Anne Cumming [Cummings, Cumyns?], daughter of a well-to-do yeoman or “statesman” at Holme in Westmorland. Another reference indicates this may be Anne Commins, whom a Giles Heysham, mariner, married on 7 February 1753 in Burton in Kendal (which is in Westmorland). I also have a reference, in the Freemen of the Borough of Lancaster, to a Giles Heysham of Lancaster, mariner, who married in 1752/3. This fits because his first child was born in 1753 and the last one I know of in 1764. A comment is made in the Dr. Heysham biography about the doctor inheriting his father's handsome personality and perseverance, and his mother's thrift. Does this again imply that Giles was not thrifty, i.e. a bankrupt?

In the pages on the family in America there are several references to ships captained by a Geyles Heysham arriving in port. Considering the connection between Dr. John Heysham of Carlisle and Robert Heysham of Philadelphia, discussed later, it makes sense that a connection within the family remained. As a seafaring family they would have had an easier task than most in keeping the trans-Atlantic connection open. Note also that Giles and his brothers Thomas, William & Christopher had all been born in close proximity, between 1720 and 1724, and, losing their father in 1727, would have been forced to rely greatly on each other very early in life.

James Birket, the younger brother of Miles Birket of Lancaster, made a trip to North American in 1750-1751 and kept a diary. From his commentary he was a merchant ship's captain of Antigua. He appears to have been in frequent communications with the merchants of the Northern Colonies and perhaps acted as a correspondent or factor for them in their dealings with Antigua. He began his voyage on 26 July 1750 from St. John's Harbor, Antigua. He came ashore in New Hampshire and traveled overland to New York City. From there he returned to Antigua on 3 April 1751.

"16 October 1750. "I dined with John Fell [the name Fell comes up three times on this page], & Supp'd w'th T: Heysham."

24 October 1750. He "Dined at Thomas Heyshams."

29 October 1750. He "rode out to Harlem and Several other Country Seats in the Neighborhood along with John Fell Samuel Burling Giles Heysham . . . "

16 March 1751. "This morning took leave of my friends in N York (viz) Wm Coventry Is: Latouch Jos. Haynes Nat. Marsten Ra Hilton Tho: Duncan, Ia Burling, Sam Burling John Hell &C &Ca Had a Bowl of Hot Arrack and went Immediately aboard the Snow Elizabeth Giles Heysham. On Board the Eliz'a Giles Heysham Mas't for Antigua w'th John Willett Esq Cha's Duncan And my Self Passengers Also Yorkshire & the Two Horses, Wind N W And a fine gale We turn'd off our fast from the Wharfe at 10 o'Clock A.M. and at One o'Clock we Passed by Sandy hook." - from "Some Cursory Remarks Made by James Birket in His Voyages to North America, 1750-1751" by James Birket.

The ELIZABETH was owned, in part, by "Myles Birket, a Quaker merchant, freeman of Lancaster, . . His younger brother James Birket was a merchant of Antigua." - from the "Papers of Henry Laurens" by Henry Laurens.

The following, drawn from the Virginia archives, probably also refers to Giles Heysham.

Admiralty – Miscellanea, Registers of 1755 – 1758
Registers of Protections from being pressed, Coasting trade, 1755-1758
"Heysham, _____ -- master of ship: ELIZABETH" – 17 March 1757, SR 05659, p. 4).

The following, from the "Papers of Henry Laurens," recounts a voyage by Giles Heysham in the ELIZABETH from Charleston, South Carolina to Lisbon, Portugal. Henry Laurens was a Charleston merchant, the junior member of the partnership with George Austin.

"[Charles Town] 22nd December 1755
. . . [P.S.] Capt. Heysham is just now arriv'd in six weeks from your City [Charleston, South Carolina] by whom we have the pleasure of hearing of the welfare of our friends there."
Footnote:
"Snow Elizabeth, Giles Heysham, from Lancaster. Gazette, Dec. 25, 1755. Capt. Giles Heysham (1722-1787) became a freeman of Lancaster in 1752-1753 as a mariner. He was master and part owner (with Myles Birket and Abraham and Hutton Rawlinson) of the Elizabeth which made several voyages to South Carolina in the 1750's. He was elected port commissioner of Lancaster, 1773-1776, 1779-1780, and ended his career as "merchant" and "gentleman." Schofield, "Lancaster Notes.""

"To Thomas Hinde
[Charles Town] 23rd December 1755

Sir,
"Your kind favour of the 4th November per Capt. Heysham . . ."

"To Myles Birket
[Charles Town] 23rd December 1755

Sir,
"Your favour of the 7th Ulto. was handed to us yesterday per Capt. Heysham in your Snow Elizabeth who has had a short & fine passage. We shall agreeable to your directions get the best Freight for her we possibly can for Lisbon or Holland, & that with all dispatch."

"To Myles Birket
[Charles Town] 12th January 1756

Sir,
"We have already advis'd your & Messrs. Rawlinsons by four differ[ent] Vessells of the safe arrival of your Snow the Elizabeth, Capt. Heysham, with us. [We] have been doing what we could to procure for her the best Freight & could get none to offer us more than £4 till two days ago . . . If advice should reach us of War being declar'd Freight must undoubtedly rise but on the other hand if matters should be accomodated as surely fall, therefore being urged by Capt. Heysham to get the Vessell away with dispatch . . ."

11 February 1756. ". . . Capt. Heysham is now under Sail with a fair Wind bound to the place, if reports be true, where Lisbon once stood. Should that City be destroy'd as is represented we are of opinion there will be very little demand for Rice & there is a great deal gone for the Market already, a good deal gone & going for Oporto. Now we immagine Capt. Heysham may be order'd for some other port of discharge & we think it most likely Cowes will be that place, presuming the early Vessells that went for Lisbon would all go round for Porto untill they become so clog'd with it that the Market must be quite ruin'd, for the Rice that is carry'd in there cannot be reship'd without leaving the full dutys."

"To Giles Heysham
[Charles Town] 17th August 1756

Sir
We were duly faviour'd with your acceptable Letter of the 31st of March from Lisbon. We dare Say that Once Superb City Lay in a more Shocking Condition than pen could well describe . . . If your Rice Sold at 3$600 the Squire would make no bad Voyage . . . The Account of War being declar'd reach'd us so Early as the 2d of last month but the Pacquet [Packet] has not yet reach'd our Governor to enable him to Publish it here."

There are 25 listings for the name Heysham in the South Carolina Gazette newspaper for publication years 1732 through 1775, the Gazette of South Carolina for publication years 1777 thru 1780, and the South Carolina & American General Gazette for publication years 1764 thru 1767. I imagine these listings, unseen by me, are each the notice of the arrival of a ship in Charleston harbor captained by a man named Heysham, probably Giles.

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The following also appears to fit here. From the UK Archives, Deeds in the village of Pilling:
- 13 February 1775 "Lease and Release: by way of a mortgage: for £250: Henry Whiteside of Lancaster, innkeeper to Giles Heysham of Lancaster, merchant: -- 1/3rd part of a messuage in Pilling with the Harr Close, The Parracke, the Field at Barnend (in two parts), the Acre, the Longpitts, the Croft, 6 small closes, the Great Moss Field, (in two parts), the Long Acre, the Lane from the House, the Barn Field with the road enclosed (21ac. 3r. 26p. in all) --: recites previous deeds. Witn. George Fletcher. Jno. Webster."
- 13/14 February 1784 "Lease and Release: for £262.10.0: to Giles Heysham and £78.10.0 to Robert & Richard Whiteside by George Dickinson: (i) G.H. [Giles Heysham] of Lancaster, merchant, (ii) Robert W. of the same, grocer and Richard W. of Pilling, yeoman (trustees and devisees of Henry W. of Lancaster, inn-keeper, dec'd.) (iii) G.D. of Pilling, inn-keeper: -- 1/3rd part of a messuage in Pilling with the Harr Close, The Parracke, the Field at Barnend (in two parts), the Acre, the Longpitts, the Croft, 6 small closes, the Great Moss Field, (in two parts), the Long Acre, the Lane from the House, the Barn Field with the road enclosed (21ac. 3r. 26p. in all), in settlement of a mortgage --: recites previous deeds & will of H.W. Witn. Edmd. Bryer, Jas. Tomlinson.

Giles Heysham of Lancaster, gent., had his will was proved in 1787. From the records of the Archdeanery of Richmond this appears to have been 21 December 1787. At St. Mary's is a memorial tablet to Giles:

"In memory of Giles Heysham of Lancaster who died in 1787 aged 65 years; and of Anne his Wife who died 15th June 1801 aged 79 years, also of the following, their Issue. John Heysham M.D. who died at Carlisle 23rd. March 1834 aged 81 Years. Dorothy Heysham who died at Carlisle 15th June 1837 aged 79 Years. Mary Wife of Thos. Milne of Manchester who died 24th Feb. 1805 aged 40 years." - from "Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palantine Counties of Lancaster and Cheshire" by the Chetham Society

This part of the family did not emigrate to America, but, in the 1800's some members removed to India. The first went as part of the British Army, but later family members where employed in the Civil Service. The children of Giles Heysham were,
(21) Dr. John Heysham (1753)
(21) William Heysham (1755)
(21) Dorothy Heysham (1757)
(21) Mary Heysham (1762)
(21) Thomas Heysham (1764)

John was born on 22 November 1753, the son of Gyles Heysham, shipowner, at St. Mary’s, Lancaster, Lancashire, England - from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography by Henry Colin Matthew and Brian Howard Harrison. The parish records differ, saying John was baptized on 19 November. A biography of his life, "Life of John Heysham, M.D.," by a Dr. Lonsdale, a long-time friend of Dr. Heysham, has been used throughout this genealogy. In the "Dictionary of National Biography" is was called "the son of John [sic] Heysham, shipowner, by Anne Cumming, the daughter of a Westmoreland 'statesman.'"

He was taught at a school run by the Messrs. Jenkinson [John Jenkinson being the primary], Quakers and schoolmasters of considerable repute in the region. The school was located in Yealand [Conyers], near Burton, in Westmorland, now part of Lancashire county. This was what became known as a 'Dissenting Academy.' Quakers were considered to be outstanding schoolmasters because they inculcated self-denial, industry, and order. John would have acquired a good English education and the rudiments of Classical knowledge.

Following his schooling at the Yealand school, John was apprenticed to Mr. Parkinson, a surgeon in Burton, for five years. This was probably Roger Parkinson, a surgeon of Burton-in-Kendal around 1790. As an apprentice John had to suffer the drudgery of a village practice, from mixing pills to rubbing down the master's horse. The indenture set forth that he was to learn the 'art and mystery' of an apothecary, or the preparation and compounding of drugs; this included the collecting of plants, the making of decoctions, and the preparation of draughts. Under the art of surgery he was to learn bleeding, tooth-drawing and cupping, or amputations. He was also expected to learn anatomy and the elements of chemsitry. It was a good education, but not a genteel one.

In addition to his work as an apprentice, John studied the classics and mathematics with the Reverend Dr. John Hutton, vicar of Burton.

Perhaps having savored too much of a country practice, John determined to finish his studies and become a licensed practioner. In 1774, he entered medical school at the University of Edinburgh, in Scotland. He studied under Professors Alexander Monro, William Cullen, Joseph Black and others of like fame for three years. Professor Monro was an early proponent of inoculation against smallpox, undoubtedly influencing Dr. Heysham's later actions. He graduated as a Medical Doctor in June, 1777. His dissertation was upon rabies and was dedicated to the son of Professor Cullen.

Immediately after completing his studies Dr. Heysham sailed from Leith for Rotterdam and made a tour through Holland, improving his medical knowledge under various Dutch professors, probably including at the famed medical school at Leyden. Upon his return to England he spent time in London and, later, visited with his family in Lancaster. In 1778 Dr. Heysham settled into practice in the town of Carlisle, in Cumberland, bringing with him introductions to the best families in the city. He would remain there for the rest of his life. His biographer indicates that he had determined to locate his practice outside of Lancaster even before he left for school in Edinburgh, and selected Carlisle for its natural beauty. I suspect he made his choices for more basic, economic reasons. There is only so much room in any town for doctors, especially one as small as 18th century Lancaster. I believe John determined to leave home because he could not procure a practice there and could in Carlisle.

Carlisle The major city of the county of Cumberland, now Cumbria. It is an ancient city and the seat of the diocese to which it gives its name. It is situated on a slight rise, in the Cumberland Ward, at the confluence of the rivers Eden, Caldew, and Petteril on the Solway Firth, approximately 70 miles north of Lancaster. For centuries Carlisle was the center of border conflicts between England and Scotland. Even in antiquity it marked the border of the Roman empire and the Celtic realms. Its ancient British name is supposed to have been Llugyda-gwal, which meant the Army by the Wall. The Romans called it Luguvallum, which signifies forts on the water. This name was afterwards abbreviated by the Saxons to "Luell," which, added to the Saxon word Caer, (city) became Caer-Luell, from which it derived its present name. In the Dark Ages the Scots tried repeatedly to take the city. In reaction the Norman King William II had the locality so strongly fortified that Carlisle was not taken again until the 17th century. During the Civil War the city was captured and plundered by a Scottish army under General Leslie after a bitter nine-month siege. One hundred years later the Scots were once more at the gates, this time lead by Bonnie Prince Charlie who took the castle without firing a shot. From at least 1322 to 1522 the governor of Carlisle was the Lord Dacre. Mary Queen of Scots, fleeing her own country, sought Carlisle as a refuge, but its castle became her first prison on her inevitable course to execution. The ancient city forms the Borough of Carlisle, which is divided into two parishes, Saint Cuthbert and Saint Mary. Saint Cuthbert comprises the Southern part of the city and contains nine townships. Saint Mary comprises the northern and western parts of the city and contains seven Townships, of which four, Abbey-street Quarter, Castle-street Quarter, Fisher-street Quarter, and Scotch-street Quarter, are within the Liberties of the City. On the map below, the castle is at the top. The streets are, from left to right, West Walls, Abbey, ending at the cathedral, Castle, which bisects the town, and Fisher. Entering from the eastern gate on an angle is Scotch street. Where Scotch meets Fisher and Castle streets is the Marketplace with its market cross in the center. St. Cuthberts lane runs due west from the Marketplace, ending at St. Cuthbert's church.

Dr. Heysham took lodgings in St. Cuthbert's Lane, near the center of the city, a narrow street that formed the approach to St. Cuthbert's church. He liked this area so much that, after marrying, he bought a home there where he remained until his death. At this time most of the city was still within the medieval walls. The gates of the city were shut at sunset and armed sentinels kept watch and ward over them. Houses with gabled fronts, three stories high, crowded the great thoroughfares. Windows were haphazardly placed and few in number to evade the window tax. Upon the northeast side of the city, near the eastern walls, was a poorer area with many narrow confined lanes. The Town Hall was located on the north side of the Market Place, not far from the Doctor's lodgings.

The town's character reflected a Puritan discipline typical of both the Scots to the north and the dour men of Yorkshire and Lancashire to the south. There were no playhouses or 'singing' saloons. The first theater did not open until 1792. It is interesting to note that the letters of Doctor Heysham's son, Thomas Coulthard, are used to illustrate the development of leasure activities in England.

Almost immediately upon his arrival the Doctor began the contemplation of his most famous work, a medical survey of Carlisle to include the births, marriages, deaths and all that pertained to the health and disease of the population. He recognized that this would be of value not only to the medical profession, but to politicians and those who calculated annuities. This work was begun early in 1779 and was terminated in 1787.

He published his findings in the “Carlisle Bills of Mortality” This work is cited in a review of 'Experimental Medicine's Beginning in the 17th Century' for its importance in the gathering of demographics / statistics to improve health care. It was also valuable in the field of life insurance. The Carlisle actuarial tables of Joshua A. Milne were “founded on the published observations and private correspondence of Dr. John Heysham of Carlisle and started a new era in life assurance. Though its results were slightly more favourable, the Carlisle Table does not differ greatly from the English Tables, which are based on the observations of thirty years, and on materials drawn from the whole of England." (Palgrave II, 764). "Milne was the first to compute with accuracy, though unnecessary complexity, the value of fines, and his notation for the expression of life contingencies suggested that aftewards adopted by Augustus De Morgan in his 'Essay on Probabilities.'"

This work earned Dr. Heysham a place amongst the early statisticians. His picture and a reference to his observations in the town of Carlisle are listed on web sites for both UCLA and the University of York.

Dr. Heysham was a great proponent of inoculation against the threat of smallpox and complained of the prejudice against it. He founded a free care clinic in Carlisle, called the Dispensary, and led the Dispensary committee, using it to establish strict measures against the disease and to provide free inoculation to the children of the poor. The incidence of death from small pox dropped to zero under his care.

In 1782 he published an essay, "An Account of Jail-Fever or Typhus carcerum, as it appeared at Carlisle in the year 1781," in which he described a more effective treatment he had devised using cinchona bark and port wine.

On 4 May 1789 John married Elizabeth Mary Coulthard [or Mary Elizabeth?] in Saint Bride's Church, Fleet Street, London, England. She was born on 16 April 1766 at St. Mary’s, Carlisle and died on 30 May 1803. She was the only daughter and heiress of Alderman Thomas Coulthard, a rich tanner, who was twice mayor of Carlisle, and Mary Borriskill who married on 28 August 1762 in St. Mary’s, Carlisle. John was in his 36th year and she in her 24th. Why were John and Elizabeth married in London?

Upon his marriage the Doctor bought a three-story house immediately opposite his old lodgings on St. Cuthbert's Lane where he remained for the rest of his life.

The Doctor was a leading citizen, and friend of the powerful Lowther family, and was made Justice of the Peace, a Magistrate, and Deputy-Lieutenant of the counties of Cumberland and Westmorland. In his magisterial capacity he sat along with Dr. Grisdale and, later, Dr. Lowry, at the Globe Inn on Scotch street on market days to adminster the justice. The two justices sat at arm-chairs by the side of the fire to listen to the arguments. Dr. Heysham's son, T.C. Heysham, officiated as clerk at these sessions, sitting at a table covered in green baize.

Some reports from the Carlisle Journal (CJ) and Carlisle Patriot (CP) newspapers:
- July 20th 1816 CP: On Saturday last, James Bell and Robert Paislow were committed to Carlisle Gaol by the Rev. Dr Lowery and Dr. Heysham for unlawfully killing a hare on Sunday 16th June in the parish of Kirkandrews upon Esk.
- October 11th 1816 CP: To the Editor of the Carlisle Patriot. "Sir - the Lovers of Boxing must of course have been much obliged to you for the very full account you gave in last week’s paper, of the dreadful, bloody and inhuman battle which took place in Scotland between Carter and Oliver. But it ought to be publicly known (a thing which I was surprised to find omitted by you) why this battle was fought in Scotland, and not in the neighbourhood of Carlisle, as was generally expected. Pray then, Sir, inform your numerous readers that it was put a stop to by the interference of three magistrates, viz. George Blamire Esq. our present Mayor, the Rev Dr Lowry, and Dr Heysham. To the above, I have no doubt, might have been added others (I know of one) who would not have been remiss, had matters proceeded to an extremity."
- November 29th 1817 CP: Intelligence having been received that an illegal still had some time been working near Luckens near Stapleton, three officers of the excise repaired to the spot, late on Monday night or early on Tuesday morning, made a seizure of the still and a considerable quantity of spirits. The smugglers, however, having obtained immediate assistance, the still and spirits were recaptured, and in the contest, one of the officers was severely wounded and one of the smugglers wounded by a pistol ball which entered his mouth and passed through his cheek. About one o’clock on Tuesday afternoon, Thomas Waugh of Glebelands, Thomas Blaylock of Luckens and an Irishman whose name is unknown, came up to John Moscrop, who had been searching for a pistol which had been lost by one of the officers near Luckens, violently seized him, dragged him across the river Lyne, and conveyed him to the house of Thomas Armstrong of Scilly Luckens, where he was detained a prisoner several hours. Information of these transactions having been laid before Dr Heysham on Thursday night, he issued a warrant for the apprehension of the offenders, and dispatched several Peace-Officers and a Sergeant and fifteen Privates of the Scotch Greys, who left Carlisle early yesterday morning, and it is hoped they will secure this desparate gang. £100 was subsequently offered for the capture of the men involved.
- July 4th 1818 CP: On Thursday last James Deerham was committed by Dr Heysham to our Gaol, charged with feloniously stealing a horse, the property of Mr Teather of the Graham’s Arms Inn, Longtown.
- December 12th 1818 CP: On Monday last, John, Robert and James Graham of Blackdyke and John Forster of Tewits Green, labourers, were severally convicted before John Heysham Esq MD, one of the Magistrates and Commissioners for Assessed Taxes for this county, in the penalty of £10 each, for being in the search and pursuit of game, without taking out Game Licenses.
- July 14th 1827 CP: A Calendar of the Prisoners in the Gaol and House of Correction at Carlisle at the General Quarter Sessions. Elizabeth Chambers, 25, committed May 7th 1827 by John Heysham, charged with having maliciously taken and carried away the infant son of Thomas Holliday of Rockliff.
- April 14th 1832 CJ: On Tuesday last, Mr Wm Johnston, keeper of Sark Bridge Toll Bar and Mr Anthony Yeoman, SnabToll Bar, were brought before Dr Heysham, charged by James Pattinson, an Irish Labourer, with having robbed him of a pocket book containing a £5 note and two crown pieces... 30 or 40 of the most respectable gentlemen and yeomen neighbours of the accused, voluntarily attended to speak to their respectability. Charge dismissed, it being decided that Pattinson had probably never owned the money he claimed had been stolen.

Living, as he did, during the Napoleanic Wars, the Doctor took a keen interest in the progress of British forces and would often ride south to intercept the mails so he would be the first to know of the latest developments. He was, for instance, the first to proclaim the peace in 1814. At a later date he was dining with his friends, the Mounsey's of Castletown, when the news of Waterloo arrived. He read aloud the whole story of the victory to the assembled guests, and as he read he cried and sobbed throughout.

As a doctor, he was a member of the intellectual set, a very small crowd in Carlisle. There were, however, about a dozen gentleman of this sort, led supposedly by Doctor Heysham, who dined at each others houses, partaking of rich foods and strong vintages until late in the evening.

Despite his many virtues, it was said that he had no ear for music, not being able to distinguish 'Rule Britannia' from 'God Save the King.' He could, however, easily tell the difference in the songs of birds.

The Doctor was interested in all forms of progress and invested in new industries. In 1811 there was a cotton twist mill, making cotton thread, in Currock, near Botchergate, a suburb of Carlisle, operated by Cowen, Heysham & Co. In a description of Carlisle the following is stated: "we come into Water Lane, where Mr. Haugh's brewery and the Carlisle Cotton Twist Company's mill, and the one belonging to Messrs. Cowen, Heysham, & Co. attract attention." Jacob Cowen was the manager and the Doctor's partner in the Currock cotton-mill. The firm of Jacob Cowen & Sons Ltd, a specialist in natural and synthetic fibers, was founded in 1821 and is still in operation in Carlisle today. The Doctor also owned an iron foundry for a period.

A well-rounded man of many interests, Dr. Heysham early evidenced an interest in Natural History, and expecially ornithology, though his expertise spanned both the birds and fish of Cumberland and even today his name is referenced on web sites dealing with these subjects. He was elected an Associate of the Linnaean Society of London at their second meeting at the Marlborough Coffe House in March 1788.

The Doctor's local fame led to his writing a "Catalogue of Cumberland Animals," part of William Hutchinson's book, the "History of Cumberland." In it he covered not only birds and fish, but mammals as well. He was also supposed to have been an excellent archer. It is claimed that his son, Thomas Coulthard, whose interest in Natural History was a great as his father's, destroyed many of the Doctor's papers upon his death, for reasons unknown.

There is a court case in 1829 involving "Heysham, Esq."

"Heysham, Esq. v. John Forster, the Treasurer of the Commissioners appointed for putting in execution a certain Act of Parliament, passed in the Forty-fourth Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King Geo. 3, intituled, "An Act for Lighting the Streets, Lanes, and other public Passages and Places, within the City of Carlisle . . . " - from "Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: During Michaelmas Term . . . a messuage, situated in a certain street, called Watergate Lane, on the south side of the said street, in the parish of St. Cuthbert, Carlisle, in the county of Cumberland, was in the possession and occupation of Isaac Bell, as tenant thereof to the plaintiff . . . [defendant] raised a certain footpath in and upon the said street . . . that the aforesaid door and passage of the said messuage or dwelling house, from the ground floor thereof into the said street, became and was and still is greatly blocked up and obstructed . . . "

The history of the town of Raffles in Cumbria states that

“In 1834 the distinguished physician Dr. John Heysham [upon his death] left 1000 pounds to the city to provide additional leisure facilities. As we shall see later, this money came to Raffles and it is the fortunate combination of unsuitable land and Dr Heysham’s generosity that gives Raffles such uniqueness . . . Dr Heysham’s 1000 pounds had by this time grown to 2800 pounds and the Flower Park it paid for – Heysham Park – and the new Community Center were officially opened in 1934. The Flower Park is of great importance. Once the Parham had been cleaned out, its banks were built up using concrete blocks taken from streets where tramlines had been uplifted. Residents talk fondly of the "Flowie" (Flower Park) and the "Swingy" (Swing Park) – playing on the Witch’s Hat and in the paddling pool."

There is a similar reference to a bequest for a "people's park."

"The late James Heysham, Esq., of Borran's hill [the doctor's youngest son], in addition to a bust of his father, Dr. Heysham, bequethed to the corportation of Carlisle the sume of 2000 pounds, for the purose of providing a people's park. Owing to legal difficulties, only 890 pounds, 13 shillings was received in discharge of this legacy: no use has yet been made of this bequest; the interest has yearly been added to the corpus, and it now abouts to about 1,500 pounds." - from "History, Topography and Directory of East Cumberland"

A Dr. Heysham of Carlisle and a Miss Heysham of Lancaster are listed as subscribers to a book, “Poems, On Various Subjects” by Eliza Daye, published in Liverpool in 1798. Printed BY J. M'Creery; and Published for the Author, at the Subscription Library, Lancaster. Price Seven Shillings in Boards; Hot-pressed, Seven and Six-pence. 1798.

The doctor also had subscriptions to the following books & magazines:
- Miscellaneous Poems, By Mr. Ewan Clark, 1779, Clark, Ewan. Whitehaven;
- A Course of Physico-Theological Lectures upon the state of the world, from the Creation to the Deluge, 1786, MILN, Robert. Carlisle (a subscription to this book was also had by a Giles Heysham, of Lancaster, and a Thomas Heysham, esq., of London. I don't know who this was but he also had a subscription to the Gentlemen’s Magazine in January 1769. He was married to Elizabeth Page and lived at Upper Grosvnor square. In 1770 they still had the subscription, but lived on Queen Anne street.);
- Letters from America, historical and descriptive; comprising occurences from 1769 to 1777, inclusive, 1792, EDDIS, William. London;
- A treatise on spherical geometry, containing its fundamental properties; the doctrine of its loci; the maxima and minima of spherical lines and areas; with an application of these elements to a variety of problems, 1798, HOWARD, John. Newcastle;
- Miscellaneous Poems., 1790, STAGG, John. Carlisle Printed by M. Dennison and son, at Shakepeare's-Head;
- Epistles in Verse between Cynthio and Leonora, in three cantos, descriptive of a voyage to and from the East Indies. With several occasional pieces. By George Marshall, late a chief officer in the Honorable East India Company's sea service., 1812, MARSHALL, George. Newcastle Printed for the author, by Preston & Heaton;

An astonishing revelation: On the web site for the papers of George Clymer of Philadelphia, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, is the name of John Heysham (1753-1834) listed as a contributor. Also on the page, under a listing of documents, is a transfer of title of some land to Robert Heysham, probably the son of William Heysham of Philadelphia. How did Dr. Heysham come to be so closely associated with the American Heyshams? My guess is that it was through Christopher Heysham, the uncle of both Robert and the Doctor, who returned to England at the beginning of the American Revolution. There is also evidence that Christopher spent his last years in Carlisle, perhaps living out the last year of his life with the good Doctor.

The dictionary of National Biography has this to say of John Heysham:
"John Heysham, M.D. (1753-1834) physician, born at Lancaster on 22 November 1753, was the son of John [sic] Heysham, shipowner, by Anne Cumming, the daughter of a Westmorland "statesman." He was educated at a school kept by Quakers at Yealand, near Burton, Westmorland, and then apprenticed for five years to a surgeon at Burton. In 1774 he joined the medical classes at Edinburgh and graduated M.D. in 1777. His thesis was "De rabie canina," a disease of which no case in man or dog ever occurred in his own experience. In 1778 he settled in practice at Carlisle and resided there until his death on 23 March 1834. He was buried in St. Mary’s Church and a memorial window has been placed at the east end of the south aisle of the cathedral. His practice at no time exceeded £400 a year."

Dr. Heysham was a well respected man, but not an avaricious one. He was never a 'fashionable doctor' and his practice never exceeded 400 pounds per year. He died in his sleep on 23 March 1834 in St. Cuthbert's Lane, Carlisle where he had lived most of his adult life. He was 81 years old. He is interned in the burial grounds of St. Mary’s in Carlisle. A small pyramid of granite marks the spot. There is also a memorial window in the cathedral in the eastern termination of one of the side aisles. Carlisle’s Richardson St Cemetery has a memorial stone for the family. On a single stone is listed the following:

HEYSHAM, Anna d 28.09.1881
HEYSHAM, Elizabeth Mary d 30.05.1803
HEYSHAM, Isabella d 14.05.1848
HEYSHAM, James d 10.05.1870
HEYSHAM, John d 23.03.1834
HEYSHAM, John Coulthard d 22.07.1790 died in infancy
HEYSHAM, Mary d 28.05.1808 aged 14
HEYSHAM, Thomas Coulthard d 06.04.1857
HEYSHAM, William d 13.10.1825

John and Mary had four sons and three daughters who lived to adulthood. A court document dealing with the case of Grant vs. Heysham said,

"John Heysham died in 1834, having had eight children, all of whom died in the lifetime of the testator [T.C. Milne], and, with the exception of one daughter, Isabella Heysham, without having been married." - from "The Law Times Report"

In an almost comic fashion the doctor followed the standard inheritance practice of the time. The first son was heir, and the rest went into the priesthood, the army and the navy. His children were,
(22) Thomas Coulthard Heysham (1791)
(22) John Coulthard Heysham (1793)
(22) Mary Heysham (1794)
(22) Anna Heysham (1795)
(22) Isabella Heysham (c1795)
(22) William Heysham (1795)
(22) James Coulthard Heysham (1799)

Historical Timeline: Reign of Kings 1820-1830 George IV He secretly married a Roman Catholic, Mrs. Maria Anne Fitzherbert, in 1785. The marriage was declared illegal 2 years later. He then married his cousin, Caroline of Brunswick. This was an unhappy marriage. During his Regency and as King, George IV was known for his 'foppery.' His main concerns seemed to be gambling, women, his dress, and others' manners. His great friend, Beau Brummel, set the satorial stage for an ascendant empire. While George dallied, Parliament wielded the true power. 1830-1837 William IV Younger brother of George IV. Known as the Sailor King. His was a popular King, appreciated for his simple ways after the flamboyance of George. However, he came to the throne already an old man and had a short reign.

He was christened on 19 October 1791 in Saint Mary's, Carlisle, Cumberland, England. Called "a shy and scholarly recluse, [he] was a gifted all-round naturalist. 'A man of active habits, enjoying ample leisure, . . . " - from "The Dotterel" by Desmond Nethersole-Thompson. A Thomas C. Heysham Esq. was a Justice of the Peace. From the national archives: Carlisle Quarter Sessions - Commission of the Peace - Letters patent of William IV granting a commission of the peace for the borough of Carlisle, date 7 January 1836 to Robert Mounsey of Carlisle and Castletown, mayor, Charles James Graham of Anns Hill, Thomas Coulthard Heysham of Carlisle, etc.

1811. "Carlisle Local Militia
. . .
Ensigns. T.C. Heysham, John Studholm." - from "Jollie's Cumberland Guide & Directory" by Francis Jollie.

In the 1841 census of St. Mary, Carlisle, Cumberland as Thomas Heysham, 45 years old, residing on Fisher Street. His occupation is hard to make out. It looks like Isall [?]. Living with him was Dorothy Armstrong, 45, and Abigail Sterling [?], 30. Both were listed as "F. S." which I suppose means female servant.

In 1847 he was residing at 45 Fisher St., Carlisle. A Miss A. Heysham also resided at 45 Fisher St. This was probably his spinster sister, Anna.

In the 1851 census of Fisher street, Carlise, Cumberland as Thomas C. Heysham, a 59 year old magistrate for the county of Cumberland, of Carlisle. He was unmarried.

In 1852 "Heysham, Thos. Coulthard, Borrans hill, esq." was listed as a shareholder in the Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company.

A distinguished naturalist like his father, his papers are in the collection of the Hammond family of Carlisle, now located in the Cumbria Record Office. His work is also cited in Tullie House Museum of Carlisle. In the Life of John Heysham, MD, he is accused of having destroyed many of the papers of his father, as well as of his own.

From the Biographical Dictionary of British Coleopterists: HEYSHAM, Thomas Coulthard (1792 - 6 April 1857):

“Often confused with his father Dr John Heysham another well known Cumberland naturalist. Thomas Coulthard was born in Carlisle and devoted the greater part of his life to the study of natural history particularly ornithology, conchology, entomology and botany. He moved to Carlisle where he set up as an ornithological taxidermist. Subsequently he moved to Preston and WarringtoN where he was Curator of the Museum. As an entomologist Heysham was interested in both the Lepidoptera, Coleoptera and other orders. James Murray, in an interesting memoir of Heysham as 'A Byegone Cumberland Naturalist' in Trans. Carlisle Nat. Hist. Soc., 1, 1909, pp. 1-12 quotes correspondemce between Heysham and Rev. W. Little, John Walton, the elder Dale, Sir W. Jardine and others, much of which refers to his interest in Coleoptera and to specific captures. Frank Day in his 'The Coleoptera of Cumberland' which appeared in ibid., 1, p. 909 - 5, 1933 also includes a detailed account of Heysham's interest in Coleoptera."

Heysham's collection was auctioned by Stevens in 1859 when the NHM purchased 225 coleoptera and other insects (1859/42). Heysham is referred to by Stevens (1828) pp. 65,177-178; (1829) p. 22, and by Dawson (1854) pp. 55,62. (MD 3/03).

T.C. Heysham was present for the opening of the Lancaster and Carlisle railroad in 1846. He appears to have been a minor dignitary. Unfortunately, the train derailed at one point, though it was moving at such a slow pace that the occupants were not injured.

In August 1930 –

“...the Golden Lion Hotel stands on a parcel ground called Spittal Dub, otherwise known as Fiddlers Close, situated at the foot of Botchergate, on the corner of Princess Street with St. Nicholas Street, which formed part of an enclosure of land belonging to Mr Robert Mounsey of the Parish of Rockcliffe [Robert Mounsey, see below, was justice of the peace at the same time as Thomas Coulthard and did take the lead on enclosing the marsh land]. The land was conveyed to Mr Thomas Coulthard Heysham and Mrs Dorothy Heysham in August 1930.....” From the Cumbria Records Office.

"...Together with the right of way for all manor of horse carts, carriages and passengers over Princess Street to and from said parcel of ground...By 1846, three dwelling houses stood on the site."

I suspect the following got Thomas' middle name wrong because it was unexpected.

"List of Shareholders of Suspended Joint-Stock Banks. The following lists of shareholders of the Royal Bank of Liverpool and of the Liverpool Banking Company are reprinted from the last official returns . . . Heysham, T. Christopher, Gentleman, Carlisle." - from "The Bankers' Magazine" of April 1847

The Letters of Thomas C. Heysham, 1829-1891 [?], are in the collection of the University of Carlisle. They are included in the suggested reading list for a lecture series, "A History of Recreation and Leisure in Britain, 1700-2000."

Seminar Four: Rationalisation and reform
"How accelerating economic change from the later eighteenth century affected patterns of recreation. The impact of industrialisation and urbanisation on leisure time and the ways in which it was used. Utilitarian and new moral ideologies of popular leisure. Notions of common culture, cultural hegemony and social control. Recreation as the "third front" for working-class 'improvement'. The relationship with Victorian religion. Cultural continuities from artisanal and autodidactic traditions; whose values anyway? Mechanics' Institutes, natural history societies and other 'rational' recreational associations."

Thomas died in Carlisle in 6 April 1857 at the age of 66. The Civil Register shows June 1857. I have not been able to find any evidence of either a marriage or of children.

There was an earlier child named John Coulthard Heysham who died young. John Jr. was the second surviving son of Dr. John Heysham of Carlisle. He was born on 9 January 1793 in St. Mary, Carlisle, Cumberland, England. He attended school in Carlisle and Sedbergh.

John was admitted to St. John's College, Cambridge, left, on 26 September 1810. He received his B.A. in 1815 and his M.A. in 1818. He was ordained a deacon in 1816 and, in 1817, as a priest. He married in 1814/5.

P.C. [Priest Chaplain, i.e. a priest who ministers in his own chapel] of Hayton, Cumberland from 1819 to 1820. Hayton is about 10 miles east of Carlisle.

P.C. of Sebergham, Cumberland from 1820 to 1846. The village of Sebergham, on the river Caldew, is about 10 miles southwest of Carlisle. The name can be deciphered as sea=south, berg=hill, ham=village. During this time The Reverend Mr. Heysham resided at Sebergham Hall, "a good building, a little north of the church." The benefice was worth upwards of £140 per annum. He was Hon. Secretary and Treasurer to the Clergy Widows’ and Orphans’ Relief Society in 1823.

From a listing of burials at St. Mary's Church of England in Carlisle, on 1 May 1824, John Hesham, minister, officiated at the burial of Frederick Story of Caldewgate, aged 3 1/2 years. Mis-spellings of the name continue.

In the 1841 census of Sebergham, Cumberland as John Heysham, a 45 year old curate, residing at Sebergham Hall. Living with him were his brother, James Heysham, a 45 year old Navy H.R. [?], and a number of servants. John was unmarried.

Vicar of Lazonby, right, from 1846 to 1877. In the 1851 census of Great Salkeld, Cumberland as John Heysham [Hersham in Ancestry.com], the 58 year old vicar of Lazonby, of Carlisle. He lived alone with a household of servants.

In the 1861 census of Lazonby, Cumberland, as John Heysham, the 68 year old Vicar of Lazonby and a Justice of the Peace. He was unmarried. From the UK Archives, Minute book, The Association for the Improvement of Church Music in the District around Penrith (until 1870 The Association for the Improvement of Church Choirs in the District around Penrith) - dated 1870 - 1893,

-"Rules pasted to flyleaf. Press-cuttings included in book. Quarto volume, full. Printed label pasted to front cover [c.1870] - President, Rev. J Heysham, Lazonby; Secretary, Mr James Ainsworth, Lowther; letter from Bishop Harvey Goodwin - accepting the office of Patron of the Association, March 1871 (pasted to inner flyleaf)"

In the 1871 census . . .

"Rev John HEYSHAM

DEATH OF THE REV JOHN HEYSHAM. -- We have this week lost another venerable gentleman, whose connection with an eminent local family and with the county life of a bygone generation makes the event one of more than passing interest.

The Reverend John HEYSHAM, Vicar of Lazonby, died on Monday last, after a protracted illness, at the age of 84. The family is one of the most ancient in the North of England. They had been long planted in the district of Lancashire from which their names is derived, and which derived its name from HESSA a Saxon chief.

After the Conquest the manor appears in the rolls as HESSAM, and its proprietor, one of the followers of William of Normandy, assumed the name "de Hessam." In the reign of Henry III, Roger de HESHAM was Lord of the Manor of Heysham. In the early part of the seventeenth century a member of the family was a citizen of Lancaster.

He had two sons, Gyles and John, the former of whom attained distinction among the merchants of London, while the latter remained in Lancashire, where he had a large family. One of his sons, Gyles, married the daughter of a Westmorland "statesman," Mr. CUMMING, and by her had a son who afterwards became a leading citizen of Carlisle. We of course refer to Dr. John HEYSHAM, whose memoir by Dr LONSDALE is the most interesting and valuable of all the latter's literary works. The doctor graduated in Edinburgh, and after a period of study in Holland, he settled in Carlisle in 1778. It is not requisite that we should recount the course of a life which filled so large a space in local history, and which has been dealt with so fully in an accessible form; but we may say that his laborious and careful record of the deaths in Carlisle, extended over nine years, formed for more than a generation the basis of the soundest actuarial tables of mortality, and was generally adopted, not only by assurance societies in this country, but in France, Germany, and the United States. His observations on the comparative mortality of different diseases were also as valuable as they were minute. There is even now among us a class who may be benefited by the knowledge that in the nine years of Dr. HEYSHAM'S observations 241 persons died of smallpox in Carlisle; but after vaccination was introduced, in 1880, twelve years elapsed without a single death from that disease!

In 1789 the doctor married Mary Elizabeth, the daughter of Alderman COULTHARD, who was twice Mayor of Carlisle. They had four sons and three daughters. Of the sons, John Coulthard HEYSHAM died in infancy; William, adjutant of the 53rd Bengal Native Infantry, died in 1825, aged 29; Thomas Coulthard HEYSHAM, an eminent naturalist, died in Carlisle in 1857, aged 66; James HEYSHAM, a lieutenant in the Navy, died at Borrans Hill, in 1870; and John HEYSHAM, Vicar of Lazonby, died last Monday, aged 84. Of the daughters, Mary HEYSHAM, died in 1808; and Isabella, wife of the late G. G. MOUNSEY, Esq., died in 1848. The only survivor of the family of this distinguished "local worthy" is Miss Anna HEYSHAM of Castle Street, Carlisle.

The respected clergyman who died this week has held the living of Lazonby for thirty years. While his strength remained he was assiduous in his attention to his magisterial and other duties, he being rarely absent from the weekly meetings of the Penrith Bench, and at Quarter Sessions he was always to be seen beside his venerated friend, the late Mr. HASELL." - from the Carlisle Patriot of 16 February 1877

She was born in 1794. She died on 28 May 1808, at the age of 14.

She was christened on 29 August 1795 in Saint Mary, Carlisle, Cumberland, England. In the 1847 census as Miss A. Heysham, she was residing with her big brother, Thomas Coulthard, at 45 Fisher St., Carlisle.

In the 1851 census of Cumberland as Anna Heysham, a visitor at Rockcliffe, her sister's residence in Castletown. In the 1861 census she was again a visitor, aged 65, at the home of George Gill Mounsey.

In the 1871 census of Castletown and Rockcliffe, Cumberland as Anna Heysham, an unmarried 75 year old woman. She was living with her brother-in-law, George Gill Mounsey.

In the 1881 census she was listed as born in 1796 in Carlisle, now 85 years old and unmarried. She was living at 17 Castle street, St Mary Within, Cumberland, England. Upon the death of her brother, the reverend John Heysham, she became the sole remaining member of that generation of the family. She died in July-September 1881 in Carlisle.

This branch of the family are, I believe, the only true Heysham's left in England, at least of this line. The Thornton-Heyshams are really Thorntons, and the Mounsey-Heyshams are really Gubbins.

He was born on 27 September 1796 and christened on 27 October 1796 in Saint Mary, Carlisle, Cumberland, England. From 1811 to 1815 William attended the East India Company's Military Seminary at Addiscombe House, a military academy - Cadet Papers: William Heysham 1811-1815. Note that this period was the height of the Napoleonic Wars and the height of the fame of the Duke of Wellington. He had made his name initially in India and, perhaps, this influenced William's career decision.

After graduating from Addiscombe and receiving his commission as an Ensign he was posted to Bengal in India.

There was a difference between belonging to the British Army and the Indian Army. While both were commanded by British officers and served the interests of the Empire, the British Army was considered to be socially superior. However, a commission in that Army had to be bought, sometimes at great cost, and its officers could expect to be "genteely poor" for much of their junior careers. For that reason, most of them depended on a family income to allow them to live in style. In the Indian Army, on the contrary, costs were low and a family back home in England could expect to be subsidized by their colonial sons. As might be expected, the relative wealth of British Officers in the Indian Army, obtained through prize money and plunder, offended the delicacy of their brother officers in the British Army.

William arrived in India circa 1816, probably through the port of Calcutta (Kolkata). Calcutta was the capital of the Bengal Presidency, a military district controlling all of northern India along the route of the Ganges river. It was the wealthiest of the three Presidencies, the others being Madras and Bombay.

In Calcutta William would have been appointed to his first regiment, the 27th Bengal Native Infantry of the Indian Army. While officered by the British, the Company's army was, in the main, made up of native soldiers. Those of the Bengal army were recruited not from Bengal itself, but from the warrier castes of northern India, especially from Awadh [Oudh]. To be a soldier, or sepoy, in the Bengal army was an occupation to which high status was attached and the sepoys saw themselves as an élite.

In 1816 the war with the Gurkha of Nepal had been brought to a close and the Governor General of India, Lord Hastings, gave attention to the situation in Rajputana. Pindari bandits, based in that region, were raiding Company territories and threatening commerce. There was also concern that, while the Gurkha war had been won, early defeats had revived the hopes of some of the native princes in the Rajput. There were even rumors of a grand confederacy of Marathas, Pindaris, and Patans, under Amir Khan, against the company.

Following a ruinous series of Pindari raids in 1816 the Governor General of India, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, was given authority to confront the situation in the Rajput. Units from the armies of all three Presidencies were called out to create together the largest force ever massed by the company, over 116,000 infantry and cavalry, as well as 300 guns. This was all out of proportion with the task of extinquishing bands of maruaders and clearly Hastings knew that in pursuing the Pindaris he would ignite a war throughout the Rajput.

Hastings formed two armies, taking personal command of the northern Army which assembled at Cawnpore in four divisions, each of two infantry and a cavalry brigades. The 27th Bengal Native Infantry of William Heysham was part of this force. General Sir Thomas Hislop commanded the southern Army, of seven divisions. These armies coming out of the northwest provinces and the Deccan would converge on the Rajput hoping to keep the Pindari from scattering and setting their banditry somewhere else. A number of princes rebelled at this invasion and the expected war broke, to be known as the Third Anglo-Maratha War.

At this time, and in line with the promotion pattern seen in other Company officers, William was promoted from Ensign to Lieutenant.

"Ensign William Heysham [Heyshun in Google Books] to be Lieutenant" - from "Asiatic Intelligence - Calcutta" of February 1817

"Lieutenant Heysham, late of the Bengal Establishment, has been restored to the service." - from "The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany," Wm. H. Allen & Co.

The company army took the field on 16 October 1817, crossed the Jumna river on a bridge of boats, and marched upon Gwalior. Gwalior, a Maratha state, was ruled by the Sindhia dynasty. It was located about 75 miles south of Agra. The other states of the Maratha confederacy were Indore, Nagpore, and Baroda.

Hastings' left was covered by units under General Donkin. On 5 November, with company armies within 5 miles of his captial at Gwalior, Sindia signed a treaty of peace with the British.

While in the vicinity of Gwalior, Hasting's camp was hit by an epidemic of cholera. It began on 13 November and the 1st Battaltion of the 27th N.I. was also affected. For a time the army was paralysed.

"To the same account may be placed, the progressive march of the disorder from one part of an infected place to another; as in the Centre and Hansi Divisions; and more particularly the Rajpootana Force, in which the virus seemed be be regularly propagated from Corps to Corps.*

Footnote: *The line of this Force faced nearly North and by East. The troops were arranged in the following order, commecing from the left. The 1st Battalion 28th Native Infantry; 6th and 7th Companies Pioneers; Goolundas and Gun Lascars; the Park in the Centre; 5 Companies 1st Battalion European Artillery; 1st Battalion 27th Native Infantry; Squadron 2d Regiment Cavalry; 2d Local Cavalry . . . The 1st Battalion 28th and Goolundas were attacked on the 14th September; on the 15th a few cases occurred amongst the Pioneers and Lascars . . . on the 20th the Local Cavalry, and 1st Battalion 27th N. I. [were attacked by cholera] . . ." - from "Report of the Epidemic Cholera Morbus, as it Visited the Territories Subject to the Presidency of Bengal, in the Years 1817, 1818 and 1819"

"In the Rajpootana Force, which in fighting men and followers amounted perhaps to 15,000, the mortality was greater. The armed force consisted of 96 Europeans, (Officers not included) and 4,100 Natives . . . of 5 Companies 1st Battalion 27th Regiment, 18, of whom 7 died . . . Here Europeans were slightly affected, and the lower classes suffered most."

The affect on the army was great, even though most of the deaths were amongst camp followers, and Lord Hastings was worried that reports might reach Sindia causing him to violate the recently signed treaty. However, once the position of the camp was shifted to the banks of the Betwa river the virulence of the disease subsided.

There were only a few battles in this short war, all won decisively by company armies. In fact the military campaign lasted just four months. Most of the action was undertaken by Hastings' Left wing under General Donkin and the Deccan army of Hislip. Bajee Rao of the Peshwa declared war on 5 November; the Raja of Nagpore on the 26th; and Holkar on 16 December.

Hastings was able to remove the Patan army from the field through diplomacy, promising Amir Khan company lands. The defeat of Bajee Rao and of the Raja of Nagpore was also convincing, and a treaty of alliance was signed. As the tide thus turned, the company offered treaties to the numerous minor Rajput rulers to protect them from the Pindaris and Maratha.

The Rajputana Force of Lord Hastings, and the 27th BNI, took the role of a "force in being," affecting the tide of events through their presense before Gwalior.

The war resulted in the breakup of the Maratha Empire and eclipse of Maratha influence. Under Company rule the region was organized as the Rajputana Agency, made up of a number of princely states, including Jaipur, Jodhpur and Bikaner, under the political charge of an agent to the Governor General of India.

In 1819 a muster of the regiment was recorded:

"Twenty-Seventh Regiment Native Infantry.
Rank . . . Names . . . Rank in the Regiment/Army . . . Remarks
Colonel . . . Sir George Wood, KCB . . . 27 Sept 1807 . . . 4 June 1811 . . . On furlough [probably in England]
Lt.Cols . . . Robt Stevenson . . . 14 June 1813 . . . Dep com. gen.
Lt.Cols . . . Sir T. Ramsay, bt. . . . 1 June 1818 . . . On furlough
Majors . . . H.A. Boscawen . . . 14 May 1816
Majors . . . John Tuscott . . . 9 Dec 1818 . . . Can.adj. & barr.
. . .
Lieut . . . Wm Heysham . . . 1 Oct 1817 . . .
. . .
Adjutants . . . Wm. Heysham 1st battalion [none listed for 2nd]
Inter. and qr.masters . . . W.E.B. Leadbeater 1st battalion . . ." - from the "East-India Register and Directory" of 1819

The 27th regiment's commander in 1819 was 'Colonel' Sir George Wood, KCB. He was known as "Tiger Wood" for his fierce disposition. He led the Bengal Division in the conquest of Java in 1811 and was brought in to replace the faltering General Marley of the 4th Division during the recent Gurkha War. George Wood held the rank of brevet Major General, one step above Colonel, which was his normal rank. There were a scandalously large number of brevet-Generals in company service. In 1837 there were only five division commands, but the brevet of 1837 added 29 Major Generals; 6 of them got command of a division at some point, 2 died, 3 were on the general staff, and 18 were on furlough in England. The brevet was in many cases simply an honor. Officer's were paid on their regimental rank, not their brevet rank. Wood returned from India in 1820 and died in 1824. Note that of the Lieutenant Colonels of the regiment, Robert Stevenson was shown to be the deputy commanding general, and T. Ramsay was both knighted and a baronet.

In 1819 elements of the regiment were at spread out across India, including at the following:
- Ghazepore, capital of Berar, won in the 2nd Maratha War
- Lucknow, capital of Awadh
- Moorshedabad, or Murshidabad, ancient capital of Bengal (in modern-day Bangladesh)
- Allahabad, in Awadh
- Muttra, or Mathura, in the Agra division, on the Jumna river
- Cuttack, the cultural and commercial capital of Orissa, in eastern India, won in the 2nd Maratha War
- Delhi

According to Angela Heysham, a descendent, William married Elizabeth, the daughter of Colonel Atkin. This probably occured in about 1820.

I have a reference to William in the 27th Regiment in 1821,

"27th Regt.--Feb. 9. Lieut. and Adj. Heysham, 1st bat, is appointed to act as Interp. and Quar.mast. to that bat. during the absence, on leave, of Lieut. Interp. and Quart.mast. Leadbeater." - from "The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany" of 1821

For a little feeling of the life in the Indian Army, the following are Standing Orders of the Bengal Army taken from the "Bengal Almanac & Appendix for the year 1841."

Under the heading XXV - BAGGAGE:
"1. Every man on march is to carry the following articles neatly packed in his knapsack; an ungea [a jacket], one pair of white trowsers, the fatigue or cloth pair being in wear (according to the season), a dotee [loincloth], a tawa [a griddle for making chappatis or bread], a small duree or carpet, for sleeping on, about 9 feet long by 3 feet broad; and also, a piece of pipe-clay [for cleaning your webbing]; this will leave room for a chudder [a cloth], should the man wish to carry one. A lota [a brass or copper pot], not larger than what will contain a seer [about 2 pounds], is to be strapped on the top of the knapsack, with the string for drawing water rolled up inside the lota; and this is to be called light marching order."

In 1821 William's first son was born in Patna, in Bihar province, several hundred miles up the Ganges from Calcutta. William was probably stationed at Dinapur at the time, a military cantonment just up the river from Patna.

Two more children were born to William, Eliza in 1822 and Henry in 1824, but all three were christened at the same time on 4 May 1825 at Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India. Meerut is upriver from Patna. This implies that a baptism wasn't practical from 1821 to 1824 when the children were born. Were they on the campaign trail with their father or simply living at outlying posts with no religious facilities?

In 1824 Wm. Heysham was still with the 27th N.I. I can't get into the following document to resolve the garble.

"Twenty-Seventh Regiment Native Infantry, (continued.) Raul. Ensigns. Facings Yellow—Lace Stiver. Adjutants Interpreters and ' f Wm. Heysham (. . . ." - from "The India Office and Burma Office List" of 1824

Some time after 1824 William was transferred to the 53rd Native Infantry Regiment and stayed in it until his death in 1825. The duties of the 53rd were protection of the border with Punjab (the independent Sikh's were excellent warriors and were not above raiding), the suppression of local banditry, and holding down the native population. The Company's main concern was trade and taxes. The army's job was to create a peaceful climate in which the economy could thrive. Note that Haryana province was also known as "greenland" by those who lived in the more arid tracts that surrond it, so the usual image of the dry and dusty frontier Indian life, think of "Gunga Din" or "Wee Willie Winkie," are not appropriate here. Its cattle were famous and that would have drawn cattle thieves.

I wonder if William was transferred to the 53rd because of an already evident illness.

"Fifty-Third Regiment Native Infantry. Facings Yellow — Lace Silver.
Adjutant Wm. Heysham 4 Aug.8»8 Inter, and qr.-mas." - from "The India Office and Burma Office List" of 1825

At some point before 1825 William had moved to Karnal, in the province of Haryana. This continues the northwest movements of William and his family up the Ganges river valley. The Punjab, the region of the Sikhs to the northwest of Karnal, was not conquered until 1849, making this a frontier region.

William died on 13 October 1825 at the age of 29 at Karnal.

"Deaths Abroad . . . May 1826 . . . At Kurnaul, Lieut. W. Heysham." - from "The Monthly Magazine" by Goerge G. Whittaker

"Lieutenant William A. H. Heysham, Adjutant, 53 Regiment N.I. 13-10-1825 29 years" - from "The Annals of Karnal" by Cecil Henry Buck

William may have died of malaria, it was rife in the neighborhood, but it also may be important that the First Burma War took place from 1824 to 1826, and that units of the Bengal Native Infantry took part. At the time of his death William was a Lieutenant and adjutant in the 53rd Bengal Native Infantry of the Indian Army. I do not know if the 53rd took part in the Burma war, though his old unit, the 27th did.

First Burma War The state of Burma pursued a policy of expansion. In 1821-1822 the Burmese had conquered Assam and they prepared for an attack on Bengal, then held by the British East India Company. On February 24th 1824 Governor General Lord Amherst declared war on Burma. Both Bengali sepoys and European troops suffered high rates of mortality and sickness from fevers during the campaign. Burma capitulated in 1826.

It's quite possible that William was evacuated from the jungles of Burma to the drier climate of the north Indian plains to recover from a 'fever' and did not survive, but that is all surmise. William was probably buried in the "Christian cemetary," St. James church, Karnal. The church was built around 1806, but dismantled and moved to Ambala when the cantonment was abandoned. The main tower of the church was left, however, because it had been built with public funds and it still marks the spot.

William, decd, was replaced in the 53rd NI as adjutant by Lieutenant C. H. Wintour - from "The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany."

William's descendents continued to live in India for many generations to come. It would be an interesting story, if it could be reconstructed, how William's wife, alone in India with three young children, managed and prospered. Widows and orphans of soldiers could receive a small pension through the Lord Clive Fund which, in the 1820's, had been opened to those residing in India - previously it had been reserved for those repatriating to England.

According to Angela Heysham, William's children were put in an orphanage, I suspect in Calcutta, where we find William Heysham's descendants living thereafter. There is a Heysham street in Calcutta today, probably named for William's cartographer son, below. Had Elizabeth died as well?

William's children were,
(23) William Heysham (1821)
(23) Eliza Heysham (1822)
(23) Henry Heysham (1824)

Historical Timeline: Reign of Kings 1837-1901 Victoria Victoria was the daughter of Victoria Mary Louisa, daughter of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent, the fourth son of George III. The throne of Hanover was inherited by William IV's brother Ernest Augustus. She married Alfred of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the Prince Consort. In 1861 Prince Albert died. In 1877 Victoria was made Empress of India.

William was born on 23 February 1821 in Patna, Bihar province, but not christened until 4 May 1825 in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. William and his siblings may have been baptized there, while his father tried to recuperate at Karnal, because of the presence of St. John's church. Not finished until 1822, it was the first church in northern India, and probably still the only one in 1825.

After his father's death in 1825 William Jr. was apparently put into an orphanage, probably the Upper Orphan school in Kidderpore, near Calcutta. William's sister, Elizabeth, was married out of this school. This school was most often the home of the children of British officers and native women.

William Jr. married Harriet Miller [or Milner] on 23 May 1844 in Fort William, Calcutta, India. The fortress is shown to the right. I have another record that indicates the marriage took place in 1846 in Patna, West Bengal. Harriet was only 16 at the time of her marriage, or born in 1828. William was 23.

William worked in the Bengal Civil Service of the East India Company as a Tax or Revenue Collector.

"This portion of the Civil Lines was inhabited before 1816. The Agent's bungalow, and the one behind Mrs. Collins's, were in that year bought by Sheikh Madari from a Mr. Heysham, the old Serai [inn or hostel] being known also as Heysham's Serai. In 1841, the Agent, Major Simmonds, bought it outright for 2,400l. The Collins family had long been in Fatehgarh, and W. Collins Deputy Collector died here in 1831. His son J. It. [?] Collins was also a Deputy Collector, who retired and died in 1855. Mrs. Hannah Collins was a lady reputed very wealthy. Between No. 15 and 16 bungalows in Cantonments, now a bare field, was a house of hers. She owned No. 16, the old Officers' Mess, and the fine house on the Ganges bank now inhabited by the Opium Agent. A sale deed of 1861 states definitely that Mrs. Collins herself lived in the small house between the Club tennis courts and the serai, and the well is still . . . " - from "Fatehgarh Camp, 1777-1857" by Charles Lindsay Wallace

Below is a watercolor of the "Bungalow and House in a Park at Fatehgarh [of Mr. Donnithorne] with Lord Hasting's party approaching," circa 1815. James Donnithorne was the Collector and Mint-Master at Fatehgarh from 1808-1817. He was also Collector of Land Revenue in the 24 Pergunnahs in 1835. He retired to Sydney, Australia on an annuity in November 1837. By the way, the aborted marriage of his daughter, Eliza, was thought to have inspired Dicken's tragic character, Miss Haversham, in "Great Expectations." This may be William's bungalow.

"The first Deputy Collector so appointed was that well known and greatly respected servant of the Government, Mr. William Heysham, who still survives and . . ." - from "An Historical Account of "The Calcutta Collectorate", "Collector's Cutcherry, Or Calcutta Pottah..." by Reginald Craufuird Sterndale.

"What does Mr. Heysham mean by serving people with notices signed by himself, calling upon people to deposit their ground rents at the Treasury of the Calcutta Collectorate within a stated time and signifying to them the consequences of their . . . Mr. Heysham has at last got a Deputyship. He is very lucky in having been posted to Calcutta and the 24 Pergunnahs [a district in Bengal]. I hear that Govind Persaud Pundit has been charged with the Calcutta and 24 Pergunnahs collections [i.e. taxes]--in which case I don't see what work there is for Mr. Heysham . . ." - from "The Life of Grish Chunder Ghose" by Manmathanatha Ghosha.

"Mr. W. Heysham, Deputy Magistrate and Deputy Collector of the twenty-four Pergunnahs, to be also Deputy Collector of Calcutta . . ." - from "The Law Magazine" of 1863 by William S. Hein & Company

There are a Heysham Road and Heysham Row in Calcutta, "probably named after William Heysham, Deputy Collector of Calcutta, from 1856 to 1860." - from "A History of Calcutta's Streets" by P. Thankappan Nair.

His his position of Collector William was, at least once, sued. An appeal of the original case was heard on 14 February 1872.

"The Justices had ordered certain land to be taken for the purpose of making a municipal market, and the Collector Mr. Heysham issued a notice under s[ection] 9 of the Land Acquisition Act, to all the persons claiming compensation in respect of the land proposed to be taken. Six claimants appeared, and of them four accepted the amount of compensation tendered them. The other two claimants, of whom Bholanath Mullick was one, refused to accept the amount offered, and their claims were referred by the Collector, under s. 15 of the Act, for the detemination of the Court.

The amount of compensation tendered by the Collector was Rs. [Rupees] 71,512-6-4.

The following was the substance of the Assessors' opinion:--

Mr. Clarke considered the mode adopted by the Collector in valuing the land, supposing it to be fairly occupied, and yielding as much as under ordinary circumstances it could be expected to yield, viz., by awarding a sum which invested in Government securities would yield equal revenue, was a method of awarding compensation to the owner, not only just but liberal . . . awarded the claimant a sum of Rs. 70,048.

Baboo Jodoolall Mullick estimated the value of the land . . . Rs. 1,47,000 as the market value of the land.

Mr. Thomson [N.H. Thomson, Esq., one of the Judges of the Small Cause Court, Calcutta from which this appeal sprung] . . . The Judge's total award was Rs. 1,08,301, with interest as provided by s. 42 at 6 per cent. per annum from the date when possession of the land was taken. He allowed Rs. 1,492-2-5 to the claimant for costs, and Rs. 300 to each of the Assessors for their services." [the award on appeal was Rs. 1,09,845-9-7, plus costs]

- from "The Bengal Law Reports"

In 1856 a William Heysham created a "Folding Map of Calcutta showing the latest improvements as existing in 1856 (Folio) by W. Heysham Presented by Mrs. George Lyell, 1933." - from "Calcutta, 1690-1930: A Catalgue of Objects on Calcutta in the Collection of the Victoria memorial."

"New Survey of Calcutta.--This much needed want is shortly to be undertaken. The last survey was made by Mr. Simms, C.E., in the years 1847-49. It was purely topographical, and not only was no register of owners or occupiers prepared, but no demarcation of the Government holdings was attempted, and nothing was then done to ascertain the parties responsible to Government for the revenue. This was subsequently done by Mr. Heysham in 1851, and took five years to accomplish . . ." - from "Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London"

"Events of the Quarter. India. -- . . . Mr. W. Heysham, Deputy Magistrate and Deputy Collector of the twenty-four Pergunnahs, to be also Deputy Collector of Calcutta." - from "The Law Magazine and Law Review, Or, Quarterly Journal of Jurisprudence" February to May, 1863, by William S. Hein & Company

William's children were,
(24) Harriet Heysham (1845)
(24) William Heysham (1846)
(24) Anne Heysham (1847)
(24) Eliza Sophia Heysham (1848)
(24) Julia Matilda Heysham (1850)
(24) Ruth Hanna Heysham (1854)
(24) Henry Ricketts Heysham (1858)
(24) Charles Samuel Heysham (1860)
(24) Edward Walters Heysham (1861)
(24) John Heysham (1865)

She was born on 19 April 1845 according to the India Office, Ecclesiastical Returns for the Bengal Presidency, India. Based on her sister's birth, below, this was probably in Patna. There is a reference to an article, published in May 1900 in "The Chronicle" by the Port Macquarie Historical Society of the London Missionary Society, titled "The Late Miss Harriet Heysham." It refers to good works done by Harriet, who "devoted thirty-four years of her life to the superintendence of LMS schools for Hindu girls." This work begain in 1866 at the suggestion of the Reverend J. E. Payne. If the photograph attached to this article was of Harriet, then she was a big girl, not liable to matrimony.

"One of my little girls," said Miss Heysham, "who was married, and was leaving the district in all probability never to return,sent for me to say good-bye. I went, and in course of conversation said to her, "I should like to give you some little token to keep in rememberance of me. What would you like best?" She replied, "There is no need to give me anything, for I shall never forget you." On being pressed she said, "Give me an English Bible, and write your name in it." "But you canot read English well enough to understand it," I remarked. She said, "I will ask my husband to read and explain it to me." That girl loved the Holy Scriptures. May they make her wise unto salvation!" - from "The Land of Idols: Or, Talks with Young People about India" by John J. Pool

He was born on 31 May 1846.

She was born on 26 July and christened on 12 November 1847 in Patna, West Bengal, India. An Annie Heysham married Samuel W. Wyatt in India in 1874.

She was christened 21 August 1848 in Calcutta, India. She married John Arthur Price in 1882. He was born on 4 September 1848 and died on 22 March 1918. She died on 10 October 1902. Their son, Archibald Milner Price, was the forebear of the Price-Heysham family.

She was born on 1 May 1850.

She was born on 4 July 1854 and christened on 17 September 1854 in St. James Church, Calcutta, West Bengal, India. It is interesting that the Henry Heysham line worshipped at St. John's church, while William's did so at St. James. Why?

He was born on 29 June 1858 in Calcutta and christened on 26 October 1858 in St. James Church, Calcutta, West Bengal, India. I wonder what significance his middle name had? Henry R. Heysham married Ellen Hefferan in Bengal in 1881. He had three sons I am aware of,
(25) Frank Lionel Coulthard Heysham (1882)
(25) Percival Evan Heysham (1884)
(25) Ashley Ernest Heysham (1885)

He was born on 15 August 1882 in Calcutta, India. His middle name, Coulthard, clearly shows his descent from Dr. Heysham.

He was christened on 24 May 1884 in Calcutta, India.

Ashley Ernest Heysham, born 26 December 1885, christened 16 May 1886 in Calcutta, West Bengal, India. Parents were Henry Ricketts Heysam and Ellen - from Parish register transcripts from the Presidency of Bengal, 1713-1948 India. Office of the Registrar General

He was born on 15 August 1860 and died on 28 November 1860.

He was born on 17 December 1861 and christened on 4 May 1862 in St. James church, Calcutta, West Bengal, India.

He was born in 1865 and christened on 7 July 1866 in Calcutta, West Bengal, India, the son of William and Harriett Heysham. He was one year old on the date of his christening, and died the same day. It is a sad picture. His parents rushing the dying child to the church to ensure he was baptized, and ensured a place in heaven, even as he expired.

She was born on 16 April 1822, place unknown, but not christened until 4 May 1825 in Meerut, with her two brothers, William and Henry. After her father's death in 1825 she was apparently put into an orphanage, apparently the Upper Orphan school in Kidderpore, near Calcutta. This school was most often used for the children of British officers and native women.

She married Thomas Augustus Madge on 20 February 1839.

"At Calcutta, at Saint James' Church, by the Reverend R.B. Boswell, Master Thomas Augustus Madge, to Miss Eliza Heysham, of the Upper Orphans School." - from the "Calcutta Monthly Journal" of 1840.

Thomas was born on 17 September 1817 in Calcutta. He held a position in the Military Accounts Department and was a deputy magistrate. Eliza died in India in 1853 and was buried at The Mission Burial Ground, Park Street, Calcutta, in tomb 39. Thomas remarried and later died in 1890, also in Calcutta in tomb 39. Thomas and Eliza had the following children:

She was born on 29 April 1840. She married John William Ingalls in 1858.

He was born in 1842 in Calcutta. He married Alice Harriet Maria Bryant. He died on 18 May 1921 in Calcutta.

She was born on 2 July 1844 in Calcutta. She married William A. Symore in 1864.

He was born on 11 March 1846 in Calcutta.

He was born on 2 December 1847 in Calcutta and christened on 2 January 1848. He died in 1864 in Calcutta.

She was born in 1849. She married Edward Daniel Templeton on 12 May 1871.

She was born on 27 December 1850 in Calcutta. She married Newby T. Wason in 1867.

He was born in 1852 in Calcutta.

Lieutenant Heysham's second surviving son, he was born 29 January 1824, place unknown, but not christened until on 04 May 1825 in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India. After his father's death in 1825 Henry was apparently put into an orphanage, probably the Upper Orphan school in Kidderpore, near Calcutta.

Henry married Anna Emma Wood on 24 August 1854 in the Old Cathedral, Calcutta, India.

"Heysham, Henry, to Miss Anne E. Wood, at Calcutta, Aug. 24." - from "Allen's Indian Mail" of 1854

I have an H. Heysham living at a small close (a kind of Indian apartment) off Chowringhee Road, on Humayoon Place, in Calcutta in 1881. He appears to have shared this space with a J D Bennett & A Maugur. This may be Henry Sherman Heysham, below, who would have been 26 at the time. A more reasonable age to be “sharing an apartment.”

Henry died on 9 March 1885. I show that Henry and Ann had eight children, 4 daughters and 4 sons. Angela Heysham shows only seven children, 5 sons and two daughters. Unfortunately she does not name them. I believe Henry's children were,
(24) Margaret Harriet Heysham (1854)
(24) Henry Sherman Heysham (1855)
(24) Charles Burton Heysham (1856)
(24) William Clayton Heysham (1857)
(24) Isabella Anna Heysham (1859)
(24) Elizabeth Emmeline Heysham (1860)
(24) Thomas Bird Heysham (1861)
(24) Ella Aitken Heysham (1862)

She was born on 6 November 1854 and christened on 28 January 1855 in Fort William, Calcutta, West Bengal, India, the daughter of Henry Heysham and Anne Emma Wood. This may imply that there was no church built at this time and that the child was baptized in the fort's chapel. She married Arthur Mauger [Mangor?] on 23 December 1879 in St. Thomas Church, Calcutta, West Bengal, India. H. Heysham, see the notation above, shared a place with an A. Maugur. I assume this is the same man that Margaret married. This also adds weight to the argument that H. Heysham is actually Henry Sherman, Margaret's brother, vice her father.

Was his middle name Shearman or Sherman? He was born on 8 September 1855 and christened on 14 October 1855 in St. Thomas Church, Free School road, Calcutta, India, the son of Henry Heysham and Anne Emma Wood. This was a church located on Free School road. It was built by families of the Military personnel in the mid 1800s.

I have a Henry S. Heysham who married Marian G. Davis in Bengal in 1882. I don't show any children from that marriage. Henry then married Laura Matilda Leach on 11 February 1895 at Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, Bengal, India. They lived in Calcutta.

Henry died on 5 February 1941. Henry's children were,
(25) Eric Henry Berkeley Heysham (1896)
(25) Terence Ernest Berkeley Heysham (1897)
(25) George Clifford Berkeley Heysham (c1898)
(25) Rene Maisie Berkeley Heysham (1903)

He was born on 2 March 1896 and christened on 25 April 1896 in Simla, Himachal Pradesh, India. Simla is one of India's most spectacular hill stations at 2,130 meters above sea level. Its been described as the one place in India cool enough for the British to gather their senses. Its green valleys and beautiful weather in summer time may have drawn Eric's mother north for her lying-in, as it did for that of Terrence and Maisie, below. Or, more simply that was where Henry Shearman's job was located.

I have an Eric H. B. Heysham, a member of the Old Cottonian Association, 1911.

He served in World War I as a Sapper in the Royal Engineers and received a campaign medal. A Sapper is a military engineer who does field fortification work, or who lays, detects, and disarms mines. Dangerous work. Apparently he stayed in uniform, serving in the Indian Army.

"21 June 24. Heysham, Eric Henry Berkeley (76 [Qualified in Light Automatic], 77 [Qualified in Machine Gun]) 21 Sep. 26." - from "The Indian Army List" of 1932.

Eric married Winifred Horniman.

I also have a snippet reference to "Deputy Ch. Opertg. Supdt. (Coaching) - E.H.B. Haysham" - from "The Indian Railway Gazette." That is, he was the Deputy Chief Operating Superintendent for Coaching Stock, that is the coaches for the train. I don't have a date reference. In another reference he was "EHB Heysham, Deputy Chief Operating Superintendent (Coal)." - from "Statutory Rules and Orders Other Than Those of a Local, Personal, Or Temporary Character."

Eric died on 25 January 1962. I wonder what the significance of the name Berkeley is for Eric, Terence and their sister Rene?

She married Captain Terence Inward, R.A.

He was born on 9 March 1897 and was christened on 22 May 1897 in Simla [also called Simla Town], Himachal Pradesh [West Bengal?], Calcutta, India. I have a Terence E. Heysham, a member of the Old Cottonian Association, 1911.

He married Elizabeth Margaret Louise Hutton on 8 September 1928 in Lambeth, London, England. At their marriage he was 31 and she 30.

An architect. From the British Archives:
- 24 April 1945: Report on preliminary plans for alterations and additions to Royal College of Physicians Pall Mall East, by T. E. Heysham.

In the Surveyor's Department for the Corporation of London are the following plans for which T.E. Heysham was architect. From Seething Lane / Mark Lane (No 52): Corn Exchange Chambers, Restaurants,
- Removal of kitchen from 4th floor to basement. Basement, lower ground, ground & 4th floors as existing. Basement as proposed, & amended & completed. Scales 1/48. T.E. Heysham, arch. Jan - Jun 1950. Before Bench Apr 1950, referred back re toilets. Amended plans approved 23 May 1950. Plan as complete approved & work reported complete 6 Feb 1957. * See also Plans: Mark Lane (No. 58), Albany, formerly New Com Exch Rest.
- Replanning of Members' Luncheon Room, Cornfactors' Coffee House. Ground floor as existing & proposed. Scale 1/24. T.E. Heysham, arch. Apr - Nov 1957. Approved 11 Dec 1957. Reported complete 14 Jan 1957.
- Alterations, Corn Exchange Restaurant. Lower Ground floor as proposed, with sections. Scale 1/48. E. William Palmer & Partners in collaboration with T.E. Heysham, archs. May 1965. Approved 21 Jul 1966. Reported complete Jan 1967.

From Seething Lane (No 2): Subscription Room Club
- Licensing plans. Ground & mezzanine floors, scale 1/48, Richard Ellis & Sons, survs., Aug 1972. Ground floor plan of Com Exchange adjacent, outlining available toilets, scale 1/96, T.E. Heysham, arch., 20 Dec 1956. Plan of Mandy's Restaurant shewing staff toilets for use by Subscription Room staff, scale 1/48, Richard Ellis, surv., 19 Jun 1973. All the above approved 5 Jul 1973, reported complete 20 Jul 1973. Ground & 1st floor plans of Corn Exchange, scale 1/96, Richard Ellis & Son, 11 May - 9 Jun 1971, submitted to Justices in Jul 1973 to shew other toilet facilities available.

Two jobs on the Lloyd's of London building on Lime street are also included.

In 1958 Terence Heysham designed the new Lloyd's of London building at 51 Lime street, in London. A model of this building was displayed in the Illustrated London News of 15 November 1952. In this building Terence recreated the "Adam Great Room" in its entirety.

There are two Lloyd's buildings on Lime street. Edwin Cooper designed and built Lloyds headquarters in 1928. When the firm outgrew that space they bought an adjacent building, the old Royal Mail House, and joined the two together. Terence designed and built a building across the street in the 1950's that became tied, via a bridge, to the 1928 facility. This explains why in some commentaries Terence is said to have "enlarged" the 1928 building. The 1928 structure was torn down, except for its facade, for Richard Rogers extraordinary new Lloyd's tower in the 1980's. Terence's building will be torn down to support another Lloyd's building in 2005.

In the application to level the 1958 building supporting documents noted that, “The application site is one of Lloyd’s of London’s major sites in the City known as the 1958 building designed by Terrence Heysham. It is characterized by its curved convex façade facing Lime Street. It is face in Portland stone with steel windows. Though high quality in construction terms, it is rathered mannered and an unashamedly “trad” piece. Lloyd’s new 1986 office building, designed by the Richard Roger’s Partnership, is adjacent across Lime Street in start contrast [one reason for the condescending tone is that this statement is in support of a proposal to dismantle the 1958 building, so its architectural significance must be downplayed].

It goes on to say, "Terrence Heysham's 1958 building is described by Nikolaus Pevsner as being 'unashamedly backward looking'. Mostly Neo-Georgian, it was a safe architectural investment despite being of the highest quality materials and methods of construction. Of its style and period, it is one of the City's better buildings. It was not however at the cutting edge of technical innovation and design. At the time of its construction, contemporary designers had produced buildings such as the Royal Festival Hall (LCC Department/Peter Moro 1948 -65); Congress House (David Du Rieu Aberdeen, constructed 1957); Milbank Tower, (Ronald Ward & Partners, 1959) and the Centrepoint Tower, (Richard Siefert, 1961-1962). All of these are innovative in one way or another and have subsequently been listed in recognition of their technical and aesthetic qualities . . . Buildings of this period which are listed for their architectural quality are judged against national rather than local criteria and so the fact that that it is one of the City of London's better Neo-Georgian buildings would not support its statutory protection."

More adverse comment about Terence's design: "Opposite the very large extension to Lloyd's by Terence Heysham, 1950-7, connected by a bridge. This building is almost unbelievable for its date, with its giant arched windows on the ground floor and its imitation Georgian portal. The Bank of England did no better with its new building at the . . . " - from "London: The cities of London and Westminster" by Nikolaus Pevsner. Everyone has an opinion. However, Terence did have his day in the sun: "Lloyd's new building, whose architect was Mr Terence Heysham, was opened by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, accompanied by Princess Margaret . . ." - from "The Face of London" by Harold Philip Clunn.

"The architect of the building is Mr. Terence Heysham, who was for many years assistant to the late Sir Edwin Cooper, designer of the 1928 building." - from "Shipping World" of 1958. Another source says, "His chief assistant, Terence Heysham, continued the practice . . ."

Permission to destroy the building was received in the spring of 2002. A new 25-story office tower is planned for completion in 2005. There is a photo of Terence's original building at Brookes.ac.uk.

When was Terence knighted?

Terence died on 8 August 1967. His biography is included in "Biography Index," a cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines, Volume 8, September, 1967-August, 1970, New York, H.W. Wilson Co., 1971. I have not seen this document.

This child, of Terence Ernest Heysham and Elizabeth Margaret Louise Hutton, was born and died on 26 September 1929 at Wandsworth, London, England.

Henry's third son. I have a George C. Heysham, a member of the Old Cottonian Association, in 1911 along with brothers Terence and Eric H. B. Heysham.

He married Louise Coleman. She was born in 1897. They left Inida with the partition in 1945. They then lived with their older son Leslie in Anglesey, North Wales until their deaths. George died in 1981 and Louise in 1982. They had two sons,
(26) Leslie George Heysham (1923)
(26) Arthur Oswald Heysham (c1920)

He was born on 8 August 1923. He fought in Burma during World War II. He was known as a great horse rider and was Master of the Angelsey Dragohounds.

Leslie had two wives. First Gwyneth Priestley-Smith & Lyn [?], who was born on 3 November 1918 and died in October 1992, at the age of 73, in Bridport, Dorset, England. He second married Mable Linsey, who was born on 29 April 1935 and died in July 2000 at Ynys Mon, Gwynedd. He had no surviving children. Leslie died in September 1992, at the age of 69, at Caernarfon, Gwynedd.

He was born in 1924. He married Dapne Hawes, but had no surving children. He is still living in London with his wife, Daphne.

She was born on 17 August 1903 and christened on 30 September 1903 in Simla, Himachal Pradesh [West Bengal?], India. She died on 29 November 1945.

He was born on 17 September 1856 and christened on 19 October 1856 in St. John's church, Calcutta, West Bengal, India, the son of Henry Heysham and Anne Emma Wood. There is, in the Judicial and Public Annual Files of the India Office, a memorial from Charles Burton Heysham, Assistant in the Patents Branch, Department of Revenue and Agriculture, Government of India, protesting against supersession, dated 24 August 1899.

He was born on 5 December 1857 and christened 31 January 1858 in St. John's Church, Calcutta, India, the son of Henry Heysham and Anne Emma Wood. William C. Heysham married Marie S. Kerr [the LDS database calls her Maria Elizabeth] in Bengal in 1882. Their children were,
(25) Cyril Kerr Heysham (1886)
(25) William Kerr Heysham (1884)
(25) Robert Kerr Heysham (c1885)
(25) Constance Heysham, who married Henry Wood and had one son and three daughers

He married Dorothy Grace Presley in 1919. She was born in 1889 and died in 1946. They had one child,
(26) Cyril William Charles Heysham (1920)

He was born on 24 May 1920. He married Gwendoline Francis, born 1922, the elder daughter of Horace Marks. A "C. W. Heysham, K.L.M. Royal Dutch Airlines" was on the "Hon. Board of Advisors" - from "Asian and Indian Skyways."

Cyril returned to England at the time of the partition of India in 1948. George died in August 1998 at the age of 78, in Kingston upon Thames, in Greater London, Surrey. Gwendoline is still living. They had only one child,
(27) Richard Charles Heysham (1945)

He was born in Karachi in 1945. "Son of Cyril William Heysham, Airline Official, of Surbiton." - from "The History and Register of Aldenham School" by Robert Jocelyn Evans, John Kennedy Waddell, and Edmund Beevor.

He married Angela Elizabeth Frow, the third daughter of A/Cdre Brian Frow RAF, in 1970. They have two children, both daughters, "the younger of whom Clare, married last year and decided to retain the name of Heysham with her husband Tom. She is now expecting a child and so the name of Heysham continues in Engand."

She married Craig Butterworth. Their children are Archie James (2004) and Alice Anne (2006).

She married Thomas Christian Bogstad, who took the Heysham name by deed poll in 2006. Their son is,
(29) Fraser Christian Heysham (2007)

He was born on 25 July 1884 according to the India Office Ecclesiastical Returns for the Bengal Presidency, India. He died young, s.p..

He married Mabel Clark. I may have a reference to him:

"1917 Heysham, Robert Kerr, Esq., Care of Messrs. Grindlay & CO., Simla, India (Dormant 1920.)" - from "A List of the Fellows & Honorary, Foreign, & Corresponding Members of the Zoological Society of London," 1922

She was born on 24 Janaury 1859 and was christened on 17 April 1859 in St. John's church, Calcutta, West Bengal, India, the daughter of Henry Heysham and Anne Emma Wood.

She was born on 1 August 1860 and christened on 21 September 1860 at St. John's Church, Calcutta, India, the daughter of Henry Heysham and Anne Emma Wood. She married Sidney Ashley Collins in Calcutta, India on 26 February 1884. He was a clerk. Sidney was born between 1844 & 1854. She died on 8 June 1928. Their children were:

He was born in 1891.

He was born on 16 December 1895 in Simla. He was christened on 16 January 1896 at Christ Church, Simla. He worked as a Chief Superintendent for the Public Services Commission for the Government of India and married Isabella Maud Franklin.

He was born in 1897.

Historical Timeline: Reign of Kings, The House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha 1901-1910 Edward VII Edward’s father, Prince Albert, was from the small German state of Saxe-Coburg, giving the family this un-English surname. Edward came to the throne late in life, frustrated in being kept from any important role in government during the Queen's reign. She, cruelly, blamed Edward for his father's death and never truly forgave him. One of the most significant developments during his reign was a change of affection from the German states, recently transformed into an Empire by Prussia, to France. A full-blown alliance would not occur until 1914. The House of Windsor 1910-1936 George V George V changed the name of the family during World War I in response to anti-German sentiment. The 'Great War' was the defining event of his generation and its cost in men and material beggared the empire, which never fully recovered its position. As a result, the 20th century became an American one. More significantly, the errors on the battlefield and those of state made the common man of England question anew the role of the aristocracy, whose rule he had until then accepted as in his best interests.

He was born on 5 November 1861 and christened on 29 December 1861 in St. John's Church, Calcutta, India, the son of Henry Heysham and Anne Emma Wood. Thomas B. Heysham married Isoline Eugenie Smith in Bengal in 1895. He was a clerk and a member of the Himalayan Brotherhood, Freemason Lodge No. 459, of Simla from 10-5-86 to 10-4-11. Kitchener was also a member. His son was,
(25) Frank Geddis Heysham (1896)

He was born on 13 January 1896 in West Bengal, India, the son of Thomas Bird and Isoline Eugenie Heysham. I have a Frank G. Heysham who was a member of the Old Cotton Association in 1909. His cousins, the sons of Henry Sherman Heysham, were also "Old Cottonions." He died in August 1995 in Croydon, in Greater London, Surrey.

She was born on 11 December 1862 and christened on 22 March 1863 in St. John's church, Calcutta, West Bengal, India, the daughter of Henry Heysham and Anne Emma Wood. She died soon thereafter on 26 April 1863.

The youngest son of Dr. Heysham, James was christened on 22 July 1799 in Saint Mary's church, Carlisle, Cumberland, England. In 1812, at the tender age of 13, he went to sea with the Royal Navy. His father probably found him a place, perhaps using the influence of the Mounsey family with whom he was very friendly. Note that his daughter, Isabel, would marry into that family in 1827. In 1812 Captain William Mounsey, R.N., had just left the HMS FURIEUSE, a ship he had captured while captain of the HMS BONNE-CITOYENNE. Navy Captains usually provided spaces to the sons of those too powerful to refuse or to those of their friends. From the "British Naval Biographical Dictionary" of 1849:

"James Heysham entered the Navy on 17 May 1812, and was for 15 years employed as Fst.cl. Vol. [First Class Volunteer], . . .

. . . Having passed his examination in 1818, he was at length, on 4 May, 1827, promoted to the rank of Lieutenant . . .

Listed as marrying in the "Freemen of the Borough of Lancaster, 1688-1840 (A-L)" in 1821-22 was "Heysham, James, of Carlisle, son of John, of same, M.D." No wife's name was mentioned. This was in the period between passing the Lieutenant's exam in 1818 and actually being promoted, that is finding a Lieutenant's position to fill, in 1827. I have found no others references to this wife and James, in later life, lived a bachelor existence.

The following snippets refer to an anti-slavery patrol in West Africa, circa 1825-27, in which James took a part; see the reference to him in the last paragraph. By the way, in response to British pressure the American's joined the anti-slavery patrol in 1820.

"[p. 279] West Coast of Africa Twenty Years Since
Edited by Joseph Allen, esq.
Author of "Battles of the Bristish Navy."

The following extracts, which need no preface, are from the rough diary of a very intelligent officer*, at the time belonging to the Maidstone, under Commodore Bullen [Sir Charles Bullen]. The diary commences on the 25th December, 1825, at which time, the writer having joined the schooner, Ellen, tender to the Maidstone, commanded by Lieut. Grey, sailed from Sierra Leone, under sealed orders.

"Dec. 26. Noon, observed the Isles de Loss, 2 h, p.m., bore up round Factory Island. Lieutenant Godwin, commanding at these islands, came on board. At 6, the flood tide having made and the breeze failing, came to an anchor about a mile . . ."

. . . had the pleasure of his acquaintance. If Mr. Williams furnishes the subjoined . . . , escaped by superior sailing; but she was known to be from Eustacia, also on a slaving voyage.

"On the 1st February, the Ellen chased and maintained a running fight with a brigantine, under Spanish colours; but the latter escaped by superior sailing. One . . ."

"At Cavally is the residence of Grand Debbly, or the Devil, who, they say, resides at the bottom of a large hole on the side of a small river which runs past . . . [p. 280] which they carry in their hands behind them, and walking backwards to the edge of the hole, drop them in; as they say, 'Suppose one man look at Grand Debbly, he lose him eye.' It is needless to say that this is a trick of the Fetish man, or priest, who is in the hole, and receives the things thrown in. The natives wear a piece of fur suspended round their necks, containing a 'Festish;' and also brass or silver rings . . . gold (valued at four pounds sterling), and one pound, or one fourth of the value of the gold, is charged for workmanship. They are unacquainted with the art of alloying, so that you are certain of getting the pure gold."

The Ellen proceeded down the coast to the eastward, passing the different places without communicating and falling in with the Redwing*, was sent in search of a piratical brig, but without success. After running down into the bight of Benin as far as the river Formosa or Benin, the following remarks from Dalzel are made :— " From the river Sherbro to to the river Formosa, a distance of 1400 miles of sea coast, there is not one navigable river, bay, or harbour, into which a ship can enter nor is there one river or creek, Volta and Lagos excepted, into which a sailing boast can advance ten miles from the sea. Very few of the creeks will admit a boat, and not one on the gold coast except at Chama and Elmina. A small boat may row up the former about two miles, and the latter about a quarter of a mile."

[p. 281] Recent discoveries having proved beyond a doubt that the Benin river is one of the mouths of the Niger, the remarks in the diary which follow, will not be less interesting than illustrative of the blindness of the Commanders of the late unfortunate expedition. The particular portion of the diary, now referred to, is dated March 21st, 1827, when Mr. Williams went up the Benin in one of the frigate's boats.

"Accompanied the boats, viz., first and second pinnaces, and first cutter, to explore the Benin river. Passed the bar at 8 h. p.m. with flood tide, and proceeded up the river examining both banks. Came to an anchor about midnight. At daylight, found ourselves near Regis point. Got underway and proceeded up the river; and on arriving off New Town received information of two vessels being up a creek close by. After proceeding about seven miles further up the river, without meeting any vessels, Lieut. Thomas Lyell, in the second pinnace, resolved, thinking they had been hoaxed, to put back and go higher up the main river himself; while the first pinnace, with Lieut. (James) Heysham and myself, and the cutter should proceed about five miles further. Just after he left us we boarded a canoe; the man in which, confirmed the information previously received, and we determined to proceed."

- from "The Naval and Military Sketch Book," of 1845, page 279-281.

"-and, 29 October 1832, to the WINCHESTER 52, Captain the Honorable William Wellesley, on the latter station. He invalided home 15 March, 1833.

Ships in the Royal Navy of the 19th Century Sailing warships were rated according to the number of their guns. Only 1st rates, of 100 or more guns, 2nd rates, of 90 to 94 guns, and 3rd rates, of 74 to 80 guns, were powerful enough to fight in the "line of battle." The 4th rates, of approximately 50 guns, could be either small two-decker battleships, or over-large single-deck frigates. The 5th rates and 6th rates were frigates, of 28 to 44 guns mounted on a single gun deck. Carronades were not included in the gun-rating and in at least one case 20 additional carronades were carried on a vessel nominally rated as a 32-gun ship. Below the 6th rates came the sloops, brigs, gun-brigs, bombs, schooners and cutters which were commanded by either a commander or a lieutenant. HMS PRINCE OF WALES A 98 gun "2nd Rate" ship of the line. She was built in 1794. In 1811 she was under the command of Captain John Eskin Douglas, at Spithead. In 1814 she was in the Mediterranean, where she formed part of Lord Exmouth's fleet at the surrender of Genoa in April. Vice Admiral Pellew had sailed from Toulon with CALEDONIA, BOYNE, UNION, PRINCE OF WALES and PEMBROKE and they arrived off Genoa on the morning of the 17th as the army moved forward to attack the garrison in the town. She was put out of commission in 1815 and disposed of in 1822. HMS BOMBAY A 74 gun "3rd Rate" ship of the line of the LEVIATHAN class. She was completed at Deptford on 28 March 1808. In 1812 she was under the command of Capt. Norborne Thompson in the Mediterranean. On 14 May 1814 he was relieved by Capt. Henry Bazeley. He brought home the British garrison from Madeira and was then stationed in the Downs. In the spring of 1815 he cruised off the Azores with CHATHAM, 74, and LARNE, 20, before entering the Mediterranean with Lord EXMOUTH. During August he carried the Queen of Sardinia, three Princesses and their suite from Cagliari to Genoa. At the beginning of 1816 she became the flagship of Sir Charles Penrose and joined the squadron under Lord Exmouth. BOMBAY was paid off at Portsmouth in July 1816, but continued serving in a non-combatant role, as the BLAKE, for many years. HMS BERWICK A 74 gun "3rd Rate" ship of the line. She was built in 1809. In 1812 she was under the command of Capt Edward Brace and he and commanded her in the Mediterranean for the rest of the war. On 16 May 1813 the boats of BERWICK under her first lieutenant, Henry Johnston Sweedland, with seamen and royal marines, attacked more than 20 enemy trading vessels which had collected in Cavalarie Bay near Toulon. They were protected by several land batteries which were carried twenty minutes after the attackers reached the beach, and the guns turned on the defenders. The xebeck [a type of frigate] FORTUNE, armed with ten long 9-pounders, attempted to escape but she was cut off by Capt. NAPIER in EURYALUS, who pushed in and cut her off. The crew of 95 abandoned her after firing a shot through the bottom and laying a train of powder to the magazine. A division of boats under Lieutenant White boarded her in time to stop her sinking or blowing up. There were 22 vessels of various descriptions in the harbour. EURYALUS salvaged the cargoes, mainly oil, corn and lemons, of those which had been scuttled and BERWICK's boats brought out thirteen. John Jones, marine of BERWICK was killed. In December Lieutenant Sweedland led another attack by BERWICK's boats. This time on a number of merchantmen lying under the protection of Fort Negaye near Frejus. They were surprised by the appearance of two enemy schooners but carried one of them and the fort and forced the French to scuttle the merchantmen. The second schooner put up a determined resistance and Lieutenant Sweedland, James Whitshed, midshipman, and several seamen were killed and others wounded in an attempt to capture her. She scuttled herself after coming under fire from the sailors in the captured fort. BERWICK was with Sir Josiah Rowley's squadron operating with the army to bring about the surrender of Genoa in April 1814. On 8 and 1O April her boats, with those of RAINBOW, assisted by two Sicilian gunboats, attacked enemy posts near the Pass of Rona to assist the advance of the British army. The enemy were driven from their positions leaving two 24-pounders and two mortars. Two men were killed and Lieutenant George Francis Lyon of BERWICK and four men were wounded. After the surrender of Genoa Capt. Brace served as naval commissioner ashore whilst the arsenal was cleared of its contents. He took BERWICK back to Portsmouth for a refit, and was then ordered to return to the Mediterranean. In the summer of 1815 BERWICK came under the orders of Capt. Fahie in MALTA cooperating with the Austrian General, Baron Laner, in the siege of Gaeta during the war with Murat. Capt. Brace was second in command of the flotilla. Following a proposal from the General a simultaneous bombardment to last three days by the Austrian batteries and the ships started on 17 July. The ships only stopped firing when they retired to re-ammunition but the batteries were badly knocked up on two occasions. The enemy fire from the sea face of the fortress was silenced. BERWICK had only one casualty, Anthony Pendville, landsman, who had to have his left arm amputated, very high up, after a gunshot wound. Since the operations against Gaeta were turning into a blockade and the people of BERWICK had been under fire for nearly two months, Capt. Fahie sent her to Lord Exmouth off Marseilles. Gaeta surrendered on 8 August. BERWICK returned to England to pay off in the summer of 1816. HMS PEARL A 20 gun sloop. She was completed on 17 March 1828. At left is a painting of HMS PEARL capturing the slaver OPPOSICAO in 1838. This was some time after Jame's service in this ship. She was disposed of in 1851. "Large numbers of vessels were employed on anti-slavery patrol around the African coast where small, fast vessels, brigantines and schooners, were needed to catch slavers. The older brigs were far too ponderous." HMS WINCHESTER A 52 gun "4th Rate," JAVA-class frigate. She had 16 42 pound guns, 8 carronades and 36 24 pound guns. She weighed 1487 tons and had a full compliment of 450 men and boys. She was completed on 21 June 1822. In 1829 her Captain was Charles J. Austin and she was on the "Jamaica Station" in the West Indies. In 1831 her Captain was Lord William Paget. In 1833 she was out of commission at Chatham. The Honorable William Henry George Wellesley (1806-1875) was the second son of Henry Wellesley, 1st Baron Cowley, who was himself the youngest brother to Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, and Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley. William's older brother, Henry, became the 1st Earl Cowley. William joined the Navy and was appointed Lieutenant on 3 October 1825, commander of the WEAZLE in Janaury 1828 and made Captain on 17 February 1829. He commanded the SAPPHIRE, 26, in the West Indies from 1830 to 1832, and later, perhaps, the CORNWALLIS. He resigned his commission at the beginning of the 1840's. Wellesley doesn't appear in the list of Captains of the WINCHESTER, though Captain Paget, below, had left WINCHESTER by September 1832. Those listed were: - 1829 Captain Charles J. Austen, Jamaica - 1831 Captain Lord William Paget, West Indies. - 1833 Out of Commission at Chatham. - 1834 Captain Edward Sparshott, East Indies. - 1837 Flagship of Rear Admiral Sir Frederick Maitland, East Indies. - She was ordered home in 1838. - 1840 Captain John Parker, flagship of Vice Admiral Sir Thomas Havvey, N.A.W.I. station. - 1842 Captain Thomas W. Careter, N.A.W.I. station. - 1844 Captain Charles Eden, Cape of Good Hope.

Why was James invalided home? While the dangers of a naval life are well known, its also quite possible the answer was something as simple as the fever. Many European men died in the West Indies.

"On most stations casualties were high - from sickness not the violence of the enemy. Yellow fever, or Yellow Jack as it was called, would frequently kill three-quarters of a ship's company and leave the survivors too weak to work the sails."

James is also mentioned as an expert and a gentleman in a book about freshwater game fish, "A History of British Fishes," William Yarrell, 1836. Perhaps he gained his interest in nature from his father, as his brother Thomas did.

In the 1841 census of Sebergham, Cumbeland as James Heysham, a 45 year old Navy H.R. [?]. He was living with his brother, John Heysham, the curate, at Sebergham Hall.

The next is anomolous. It is a reference to a James Heysham, circa 1841, in India. Our James obviously wasn't there in that year and his brother William, who died in 1825, while he left behind children in India, none of them were named James and, more importantly, none would have been old enough for the position described below.

"List of British Subjects Calcutta Directory
. . .
Heysham, James, teacher Hindoo college, circular road." - from "The Bengal and Agra Annual Guide and Gazeteer" of 1841.

James was a Director of a local railroad.

"Maryport and Carlisle Railway.
Office, Maryport
Chairman.--F.L.B. Dykes, Esq., Dovenby Hall.
. . .
Directors.
Sir Wilfred Lawson, Bart., Brayton Hall.
J. Pocklington Senhouse, Esq., Borran House.
James Heysham, Esq., Sebugham, Carlisle.
George Cowen, Esq., Dalston, Carlisle
. . .
- from "The Railway Directory for 1845."

In the 1847 census James was residing at Burns Hill House in Burns Hill. From a directory of Cumberland dated 1847: "Burns-Hill House is a good mansion, in a pleasant situation, about half-a-mile from the church, overlooking the banks of the Caldew. It is the property and residence of James Heysham, Esq., and was erected about nine years ago [1838]." This is in Sebergham parish, the same where John Heysham, James elder brother, was the priest until 1846.

James Heysham was one of the Directors of the Carlisle City and District Bank. He eventually served there for 14 years as a Director and chairman of the board, resigning in 1851. In 1852 "Heysham, James, Borrans hill, esq." was listed as a shareholder in the bank.

In the 1851 Cumbrian census of Woodside, Rosley, Brocklebank, Stoneraise and Sebergham, he was listed only as "Heysham, James (51)."

Interestingly, the Navy List of 20 December 1868 lists "mJames Heysham." "m" means Retired. He was a Commander, with a date of rank of 1 October 1860, and a date of rank to Lieutenant of 4 May 1827." The title page of this section says "Commanders. Promoted from the Lieutenants' List, under Her Majesty's Orders in Council the 1st of August, 1860, 9th of July 1864, and 24th March 1866." The issue of the day appears to have been the need to forcibly retire a number of officers who remained on the active duty list, what we would call "dead-wood." Apparently the deal to induce these men to voluntarily retire, custom said they did not have to, included a one-step promotion to everyone on the retired list.

In the 1861 census of Sebergham Low, Cumberland, England as James Haysham [sic], of Borranshill, a 61 year old Landed Proprietor Banker. Also noted to be a Commander - Royal Navy Retired. He died, d.s.p., at Borrens [Barons] Hill, [Wigton] Carlisle on 10 May 1870.

Is Baron’s, Borrans, Borrens and Burns-Hill all the same place? There is also a reference to Barron Wood.

The family clearly remembered/revered their Gernet ancestory. Note the crest described on the sun-dial, below.

"On one of the faces of a pillar-dial at Borranshill House, near Carlisle . . . The pillar was erected by a member of the Heysham family; it bears on the summit a vase ornamented with doves, and crowned by a lion passant regardant--the Heysham crest. The pillar is about 7 feet high. Borranshill now belongs to Colonel Wybergh." - from "The Book of Sun-dials" by Eleanor Lloyd, Horatia Katharine Frances Eden, Alfred Gatty

A marble statue, called "Ariel," was executed for James Heyshom [sic], Esq. - from "Exhibition of the Royal Academy."

There is a reference to a bequest by James for a "people's park."

"The late James Heysham, Esq., of Borran's hill [the doctor's youngest son], in addition to a bust of his father, Dr. Heysham, bequethed to the corportation of Carlisle the sume of 2000 pounds, for the purose of providing a people's park. Owing to legal difficulties, only 890 pounds, 13 shillings was received in discharge of this legacy: no use has yet been made of this bequest; the interest has yearly been added to the corpus, and it now abouts to about 1,500 pounds." - from "History, Topography and Directory of East Cumberland"

"William s. of Giles Heysham, L." was christened on 5 July 1755 in St. Mary’s, Lancaster, Lancashire, England - from "Lancashire Parish Register Society." The same is recorded in the Mormon database. I suspect he died young.

Dorothy Heesom, the daughter of Giles, was christened on 16 October 1757 at Saint Mary, Lancaster. She never married. At some point Dorothy moved north to Carlisle, in Cumberland to be near her big brother, Dr. John Heysham.

In 1828 Dorothy's nephew, Thomas Jones Milne, the son of her younger sister, Mary, left a life trust to her. See the subsequent case of Grant vs. Heysham for its adjudication after her death.

In the 1829 census of Carlisle as Dorothy Heysham, living on Castle Street, alone. In 1830 –

“...the Golden Lion Hotel stands on a parcel ground called Spittal Dub, otherwise known as Fiddlers Close, situated at the foot of Botchergate, on the corner of Princess Street with St. Nicholas Street, which formed part of an enclosure of land belonging to Mr Robert Mounsey of the Parish of Rockcliffe [Robert Mounsey, was justice of the peace at the same time as Thomas Coulthard and did take the lead on enclosing the marsh land]. The land was conveyed to Mr Thomas Coulthard Heysham and Mrs Dorothy Heysham in August 1930 [sic] .....” From the Cumbria Records Office.

"...Together with the right of way for all manor of horse carts, carriages and passengers over Princess Street to and from said parcel of ground...By 1846, three dwelling houses stood on the site."

". . . Dorothy Heysham who died at Carlisle 15th June 1837 aged 79 Years . . ." - from "Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palantine Counties of Lancaster and Cheshire" by the Chetham Society

I have a Mary Heysham, the daughter of Giles, who was christened on 18 April 1762 at St. John's church, Lancaster. This date is a few years earlier than expected, and the christening at St. John is not typical for this family. Note that the family memorial states that she died in 1805 at the age of 40 [1765], while the record of her marriage in 1800 says she was 25 at the time [1775].

"14 May 1800. Thomas Milne, 25, gentleman of Manchester and Mary Heysham, 25 [Did she lie about her age?], spinster of Lancaster" married - from the Archdeaconry of Richmond Marriage Bonds in the Lancashire Record Office. Thomas was born on 29 October 1764, the son of Richard Milne of Manchester, merchant, and Ann Jones. Thomas was an attorney.

Mary died in 1805. From the memorial tablet of Giles Heysham:

". . . Mary Wife of Thos. Milne of Manchester who died 24th Feb. 1805 aged 40 years [1765]." - from "Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palantine Counties of Lancaster and Cheshire" by the Chetham Society

Their children were,
(22) Thomas Jones Milne
(22) Dorothea Heysham Milne

Thomas Jones Milne was an attorney, like his father, but did not practice - from "The Admission Register of the Manchester Shcool." D.s.p. His will,

". . . and to pay the interest, dividends, and profits, as and when the same shall become due and be received, unto my dear aunt, Dorothy Heysham, for and during the term of her natural life, and from and after the decease of my said aunt upon trust as to the said net residue of my personal estate and the unpaid interest (if any) for all the children of my uncle, John Heysham [the doctor] . . ." - from "The Law Times Reports: Containing All the Cases Argued and Determined in the House of Lords."

8 November 1887. "Appeal from The Chancery Division

Testator [T.J. Milne] bequethed his residuary personal estate upon trust for his aunt [Dorothy Heysham] for life, and from and after her decease for all the children of his uncle [John Heysham, Esq], "and the lawful issue of such of them as may be then dead."

The aunt and all the children of the testator's uncle died in the testator's liftetime, but one of such children died after the tenant for life, leaving issue who survived the testator.

Held, that the word "then" referred to the death of the tenant for life, and not to the period of distribution, and that consequently there was an intestacy. " - from "The Law Times Reports"

Headstone: "Dorothea Heysham Milne, daughter of the late Thomas Milne, esquire, of Manchester, died 23 April 1828 aged 26." - from "West Wickham," Kent Archaelogical Society. D.s.p.

Thomas, the son of Giles Heysham, was christened on 29 March 1764 in St. Mary’s, Lancaster, Lancashire, England. Gentleman. I have a snippet reference "1784-5. Heysham, Thos., of Lancaster, gentleman, son of Gyles of same, merchant." - from "The Rolls of the Freemen of the Borough of Lancaster 1688 to 1840." by W. B. Kendall and T. Cann Hughes. Per Ancestry.com, this referred to a marriage. Thomas would have been 20-21 years old at that time. Interestingly, he was not mentioned in the memorial tablet of his father, Giles, who died in 1787.

A possible explanation of Thomas' absence from the records in England after 1785 is the existence, in America, of a Thomas Heysham of about the right age, that is born circa 1765. Remember that Thomas' uncles had been merchants in that city before the Revolution and that his father had stopped there on his merchant voyages. If young Thomas were also a merchant or seaman that might close the loop.

Thomas Heysham's wife was Rhoda (if the theory above is right). They had a daughter, also named Rhoda, who was christened in New York City in 1798.

She Was born on 6 August 1798 and christened on 24 February 1799 in the Trinity Church. New York City, the daughter of Thomas and Rhoda Heysham - from the Trinity Church parish record of births and christenings, 1749-1809.

The son of William Sr. of Lancaster, he was born on 9 February 1725 in St. Mary's church, Lancaster. He emigrated to America with his brother, William, in about 1748. See the "William Heysham Line" for more information. He returned to England in the run-up to the American Revolution.

The son of William Sr. of Lancaster. He was christened on 11 May 1728 in St. Mary’s, Lancaster, Lancashire, England. He was listed as William’s posthumous son, which makes sense since William died in 1727. Another source lists Benjamin as a son of 'William, late of Lancaster,' buried on 22 May 1729. This comment also presupposes William’s death.

"Maria fa. Jo: Heisham de Lancr . . . 19 January 1676," baptized in Saint Mary, Lancaster. "Mary d. of John Heesam of Lancr . . . 20 March 1682," buried at St. Mary, Lancaster.

"Richard, f. John Hesam of Lanc. . . . 30 December 1677." - from Baptisms, "Lancashire Parish Registers."

I have a Richard who married in 1699/1700 in Lancaster. I also have a Richard Heysham who married Alice Williamson of Skirton on 12 February 1707.

"1710 Rd. Heysham" was a churchwarden. The following may fit here if we presume Richard made a trip to London.

May 1719. "Stephen Clarke (a Boy) of St. Gregory's was indicted for Privately stealing a Silk Handkerchief from the Person of Richard Highsham on the 12th of April last. Mr. Highsham deposed he lost his Handkerchief in St. Paul's Church. The Constable deposed that he obserserv'd the Prisoner and another very busy about some Gentlemens Pockets and that he saw the Prisoner clap his Hat to the Prosecutor's Pocket, and take out the Handkerchief of Hat , and so convey it into See original his Bosom; whereupon he secur'd him. The Hand-kerchief was found upon him, and own'd by the Prosecutor. The Jury found him Guilty to the value of 10 d. Transportation." - from The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London 1674 to 1834.

I have an Alice, relict [widow] of Richd Heysham, late of Lancaster, who was buried on 26 November 1728. Their children were,
(20) Elisabeth Heysham (1708), she married an Overend
(20) Grace Heysham (1710), she died young
(20) John Heysham (1711), he died young
(20) Thomas Heysham (1714), he may have married
(20) Jane Heysham (1715)
(20) Robert Heysham (1718)
(20) Ann Heysham (1720), she died young
(20) John Heysham (1721), he died young
(20) Richard Heysham (1724), he died young
(20) Grace Heysham (1725), she died young

She was baptized on 28 November 1708 in Lancaster, the daughter of Richard. Eliz. Heysham & Jas. Overend were married on 1 February 1728 at St Mary's, Lancaster - from Lancaster parish registers. I believe that her descendant was the painter William Heysham Overend.

In the 1871 census of District 1, Stamford Hill, Hackney, London as William A. [sic] Overend, a 19 year old artist (Painter), of Darlington, Durham. He was a single man and a boarder in the home of Anne Brown, at No. 14 Clapton Terrace. This is an area of row houses in East London. Living in the same house was Edward Overend, a 46 year old [1825] unmarried Naval Engineer (unemployed), of Bentham, Yorkshire. This was probably his uncle. William's father, James, lived nearby. In the 1881 census of District 7, St George Bloomsbury, London as Wm. H. Overend, a 29 year old artist, living in a boarding house at 64 Guilford street. This is in central London. He was born in Coatham [probably Coatham Mundeville, 4 miles north of Darlington, where his father lived in 1851], Durham. Living with him was his wife, Sofia, aged 30, of St Martins, London. They had no children. William H. Overend arrived in New York City on 4 October 1882 aboard the SCYTHIA, left. He was alone and was probably on an assignment from the newspaper he worked for, though he may have been trying to sell his work as well. SCYTHIA was built in 1875 and ran the North Atlantic route for Cunard until 1899. I do not see William in the 1891 census, as I don't see his parents or brothers. His work, "Victory!" The Prize Crew Taking Possession," was exhibited at the World`s Columbian Expedition, held in Chicago in 1893. William died in 18 May 1898 in the Pancras district of London. He was only 47 years old. His biography may be found in "The Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists up to 1920," H.L. Mallalieu, Woodbridge, England, Antique Collectors' Club, 1976, the "Dictionary of Victorian Painters," Christopher Wood, Suffolk, England, Baron Publishing, 1971, and in "The Dictionary of Victorian Painters," Second Edition, Christopher Wood, Woodbridge, England, Antique Collectors' Club, 1978. An obituary: "W. H. Overend, the English painter of naval subjects and black and white artist, was born in 1851. He started as a marine painter, but soon became connected with "The Illustrated London News," which continued to the day of his death. He exhibited "Trafalgar" at the Royal Academy, 1898. He was a member of the Royal Institute of British Painters." - from "American Art Directory." Below is "Nelson on the Quarterdeck of the Victory," otherwise known as Trafalgar, and, in an etching taken from the painting, "Farragut at Mobile Bay." These are probably William's most famous works. He also did engravings, usually about lives of adventure. He illustrated a number of “boys” books of the Empire period, including many by G. A. Henty with names like, “In the Irish Brigade” and “On the Irrawaddy.” Interestingly, the latter is a story of the First Burma War, in which Lieutenant William Heysham of the 53rd Bengal Infantry died. He also illstrated Sadler’s “The Good Ship Barbara, a story of two brothers.” Again, the title is typical of the genre. His origins may be as follows . . .

She was christened on 22 September 1710 in Lancaster. She died and was buried on 25 September 1710.

John, the son of Richard, was baptized on 26 August 1711 in Lancaster. He died and was buried on 9 March 1716 in Lancaster.

"Tho: s. of Richd Heysham of L: 01 Jan 1713" - from the Lancaster Parish Register of Baptisms. The LDS database shows 1 January 1714, based on the Gregorian calendar I presume. I have a record shows that a Thomas married in 1738/9 - from "Marriages" in the "Freemen of the Borough of Lancaster, 1688-1840."

She was baptized on 22 November 1715 in Lancaster.

Robert, the son of Richard Heysham, was baptized on 6 April 1718 in Lancaster. Edward, the son of William Heysham Jr. of Lancaster, above, was baptized the same day. Was it a dual ceremony?

She was christened on 10 April 1720 in Lancaster. She died and was buried on 24 May 1721.

John, the son of Richard, was christened on 6 August 1721 in Lancaster. He died and was buried on 5 November 1730, the son of "Richard late of Lancaster." Richard had died in 1727.

He was christened on 9 February 1724 in Lancaster. Richard, the son of Richard, died and was buried on 16 February 1723.

She was baptized on 21 November 1725 in Lancaster. She died and was buried on 31 May 1726.

"Alice d. of John Hesam of Lancr . . . 4 July 1680," baptized in Saint Mary, Lancaster. I have an Allice Heysham who married William Walton on 5 November 1712 at St. Mary, Lancaster. He was, in a later document, referred to as a gentleman. He may have been part of the Walton-le-Dale family. Interestingly, in 1613 William Walton of Walton-le-Dale was a juror in the inquisition taken "after the death of John Hisam of Haulton, co. Lancaster, gentleman." However, by this date the Walton's no longer held the manor of Little Walton in Walton-le-Dale.

William is also noted in the following, as a plaintiff against Alice's brother, Edward Heysham, the butcher.

30 July 1746. "William Harrison, William Walton, John Townson and John Lawson, gents, plaintiffs; Edward Heysham and Alice his wife, Thomas Rowlandson and Alice is wife, Thomas Fletcher and John Fletcher, deforciants: final concord concerning a moiety of a messuage and burgage plot and two other messuages and land and woodlands in Lancaster and Quernmore and Highfield in Halton
Consideration: £266 13s 4d"

"Sarah d. of John Hesam of Lancr . . . 27 November 1681," baptized in Saint Mary, Lancaster. A Sarah Heysham, spinster, married John Brown, yeoman, on 3 December 1720 in Lancaster - from "Marriage Bons for the Deaneries of Lonsdale, Kendale, Furness . . ."

John Brown was associated with the Heysham family at least three other times. With Sarah's niece, Ann,

On 28 July 1729 a marriage was performed between "Matthew Rawlinson, of Cartmel, husbandman, and Ann Heysham, of Lancaster, spinster." The bondsman was "John Dawson (Danson), of Lancaster, inn keeper. At Lancaster p. church. Witnesses: J. Fenton, John Brown."

"Robert Gornall, barber and Elizabeth Askew, spr., aged 24 years, both of Lancaster. Bndsman: Edwd. Heysham, junr. of Lancaster. At Lancaster. Witn: J. Fenton, John Brown." - from "Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire."

"Bdsm.: John Brown, of Lancaster, yeo. At Lancaster. Witn.: Willm. Heysham, Jas. Thompson." - from "Marriage Bonds for the Deaneries of Lonsdale, Kendal, Furness and Copeland."

On at least one occasion a John Brown was listed as "John Brown of Lanc., p clerk." J. Fenton was probably James Fenton, L.L.B., the Vicar of Lancaster from at least 1716 to his death in 1767.

"Mary d. of John Heighsome of Lancaster . . . 4 July 1683," baptized in Saint Mary, Lancaster. She was probably named for her elder sister, Mary, who died in 1682. The practice of naming a child for a deceased sibling was common. "Mary d. of John Heysham of Lancr . . . 26 September 1687," buried at St. Mary, Lancaster.

"Grace d. of John Heighsome of Lancaster . . . 11 October 1684," baptized in Saint Mary, Lancaster. "Grace d. of John Heighsom . . . 27 July 1687" - from Burials in Lancashire Parish Registers in "Lancashire Parish Register Society."

These are all probably the descendents of Lt. William Heysham, of India. The women may, of course, be wives.

Undated. "Two maiden memsahibs, Irene and Dorothy Heysham ('we date back to William the Conqueror') are living on a hillside in Simla, 'hanging on' in a house called Dunloe with a kindly bearer who . . ." - from "Highness: The Maharajahs of India" by Ann Morow

He was born on 4 January 1926 and died in February 2003 at the age of 77, in Doncaster, Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire. Sheana Heysham was born on 4 April 1932 and died in November 1999, at the age of 67, in Doncaster, Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire. I suspect she was Peter's wife.

She was born on 20 March 1929 and died in March 2004 at the age of 74, in Portsmouth, Hampshire.

He married Susan [Gregory?] Rothwell in April 1985 in Doncaster, Nottinghamshire. See Peter and Sheana Heysham, above.

The son of William L. Heysham and Susan Rothwell, he was baptized in October 1986 in Doncaster, Nottinghamshife.

The daughter of William L. Heysham and Susan Rothwell, she was baptized in June 1980 in Doncaster, Nottinghamshife.

He married Sian Price. She appears to be a film or television producer in England.

She [?] was born on 20 November 1998 - from the London Times, Births and Christenings, 1983-2003..

The son of Tim Heysham [?] and Sian Price, he was born on 11 February 2001 - from the London Times, Births and Christenings, 1983-2003.

She was born in December 1988 in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. Her mother's maiden name was Smith.

The following are two 19th century British artists, Robert Heysham Noble Sr and Jr. I'm interested in them only because they use the Heysham name. I'm assuming at this point that this means they were memorializing a Heysham antecedent.

"8 August 1788. William Noble, 25, mariner of Lancaster & Elizabeth Heysham, 23, of Lancaster" married in Lancaster - from the Archdeaconry of Richmond Marriage Bonds in the Lancashire Record Office

I have two citations, perhaps grandfather and grandson. The first, Robert Heysham Noble, RBS (fl. 1821-1861). From a sale site is this description, "Beckenham Signed and dated in ink: ‘Beckenham/H. Noble 1854’, Watercolor on paper, 8 x 6 ¼ in. (view) Picturesque rural Kentish scene with sheep grazing before stone clamped and flower grouping in foreground. Noble was a London-based painter of landscapes and coastal scenes, who exhibited from 1821-61 at the Royal Academy, the Society of British Artists and the British Institution."

In the 1841 census of Salford, Lancashire as Robert Heysham Noble, a 45 year old artist, of Lancashire. Living with him were his wife, Ellen, 30, and an [adopted?] daughter, Ellen Green, 6.

He died in 1860 or 1861.

Second was a 19th century artist (1857-1917). He was interred within the churchyard of Prestonkirk Parish Church in Lothian, a little to the north-east of the church, is Robert Noble RSA, the artist, who lived in Preston Road and before his death in 1917 painted many scenes of East Linton and the surrounding landscape. “Noble was at the centre of the well-known group of artists who worked at East Linton and whose work made that area of the county famous.” His biography is included in the "Dictionary of Victorian Painters," Christopher Wood, Suffolk, England, Baron Publishing, 1971 and "The Dictionary of Victorian Painters. Second edition, Christopher Wood, Woodbridge, England, Antique Collectors' Club, 1978.

"12 February 1711 Jeremiah Fell, junr & Elizabeth Heysham" married at St. Mary, Lancaster. Charles Rigby appears to have transferred a deed for property in Nether Kellet to Jeremiah Fell on 26 November 1716.

Interestingly I have a Jeremiah Fell who married Ellen Abott on 27 April 1684 at St. Mary, Lancaster. Perhaps this was a second marriage for Jeremiah. Could it have been for Elizabeth as well? I haven't been able to find a young Elizabeth yet, born 1680-1690, to be Jeremiah's wife. Or, was that Jeremiah's dad remarrying? Edward son of Jeremiah Fell of Lancaster was born on 8 February 1684 at St. Mary, Lancaster. A son John was born on 26 June 1687; a daughter Judity on 7 December 1690.

Here's a fun story, from the website of an artificial grass manufacturer.

"The "As Good As Grass" sales team were stunned this week after a customer requested a quote for removing her newly installed artificial grass lawn. The lady from Chipping Sodbury explained the lawn was purchased as a gift for her grandmother who was at first delighted with the garden makeover gift. However, A month after the installation the grandmother flew into a rage with her gardener as he refused to mow the lawn. Mrs Heysham was not aware that her new grass lawn is synthetic. In a bid to keep the peace, the Chipping Sodbury resident (who wishes to remain nameless) has commissioned a team to remove the artificial grass and replace it with real turf. Apparently Mrs Heysham refuses to talk to her granddaughter and stated, “I cannot believe she gave me fake grass! How can anybody be so cheap?” Clearly Mrs Heysham is unaware of our prices."

A Mrs. Heysham is a school teacher at the Westbury Park primary school in Bristol, England. I see that she had a child in 2008.

Steve Hissem
San Diego, California