The following material was furnished by Peter Kenneth Heaphy
1/11/2000
Heaphy
Index
United Kingdom
LONDON IGI
recorded by Mrs Pat Hamilton Mackay Qld 1993
Christian Name Parents/Partner Event Date
Parish/Site
Anne John &
Rachel *1/2 FC 27/8/1786 London St Giles Cripplegate
Archibald
Gerrard Thomas & Eliza *3 MC 13/11/1854
St Marylebone St Mary
Arthur Spencer Thomas & Eliza
*3 MC 5/1/1853 St Marylebone St Mary
Caroline
Georgina Thomas & Eliza *3 MC 18/6/1849
St Marylebone St Mary
Catherine John & Rachel
*1/2 FC 1/2/1784 London St Giles Cripplegate
Catherine
to Edward Kynaston Moody WM 5/11/1812 St Marylebone
St Mary
Edward William & Lucy
MC 4/2/1806 Chelsea Saint Luke
Edward Charles JohnGeorge
& Susannah Elizabeth MC 13/11/1861 Stepney St Dunstan
Eleanor
Jane Francis & Eleanor FC 26/3/1837
Stepney St George in the East
Eliza Mary Thomas
& Eliza *3 FC 18/6/1849 St Marylebone St Mary
Elizabeth to Richard Collet WM
21/2/1792 London St Botolph Bishopsgate
Elwyn John
Thomas & Eliza *3 MC 18/6/1849 St Marylebone
St Mary
Emily Clara James & Clara
FC 3/3/1872 Limehouse St John Evangelist
Fanny
John & Elizabeth FC 9/8/1820
St Marylebone St Mary
Fanny Elynn Fred. George &
Ann Elynor FC 24/8/1862 Westminster St Luke
Francis Bradstreet
Thomas & Eliza *3 MC 28/1/1851 St Marylebone
St Mary
Frederick Nathaniel Frederick George &Anne Elynor MC 24/8/1862
Westminster St Luke
George Edward Thomas & Eliza
*3 MC 12/6/1856 St Marylebone St Mary
George Thomas
John George & Martha MC 13/11/1861 Stepney
St Dunstan
Gerrard John Gerrard & Rachel *1/2
MC 15/4/1792 London St Stephan Coleman St
Hannah Elizabeth
John George & Lydia FC 9/12/1863 Stepney
St Dunstan
Harriet to John Meredith
WM 17/4/1865 Westminster St Anne Soho
Henry
Thomas & Harriet Jane *2/2 MC 24/4/1836 St Marylebone
St Mary
Hester to Thomas Bell
WM 18/11/1677 London All Hallows London Wall.
Horace
Thomas & Eliza *3 MC 27/5/1858 St
Marylebone St Mary
Jane John Gerrard & Rachel
*1/2 FC 15/4/1789 London St Stephan Coleman St
Jane Charlotte
William & Lucy Daniel FC 28/12/1812 St
Marylebone St Mary
Jane Charlotte to Edward Spall
WM 2/12/1847 Bethnal Green St Mathew
Jane Leonora Alice
Thomas & Eliza *3 FC 4/7/1861 St Marylebone
St Mary
Jessie Sarah Frederick George & Ann Elynor FC
24/8/1862 Westminster St Luke
Job to Fanny Wilkinson
HM 3/2/1793 London St Botolph Bishopsgate
John
(Heppy) to Eliza Daldron HM 15/5/1575
London St Peter Cornhill
John Peter & Jane
Heaphy MC 21/12/1766 London St Michael Bassishaw
John
to Rachel Ashley **1/2 ? HM 6/1/1777
Finsbury St Luke Old St
John John &
Francis MC 28/6/1795 Finsbury St Luke Old
St
John Geoge to Susanna Elizabeth Satchfield HM 10/5/1836
Southwark Christ Church
John George John George &
Lydia MC 9/12/1863 Stepney St Dunstan
John Gerrard
to Sarah Smith ***1/3 HM 23/12/1803 Shoreditch
St Leonards
John Swithen John & Francis
MC 5/8/1810 Southwark St Olive
Mary to
Edward Scott WM 26/4/1631 London St Andrew
by the Wardrobe
Mary Ann Thomas & Mary *2/1
FC 1/4/1801 London Haberdashers Hall Independent
Peter to
Esther King HM 24/10/1775 London
St Michael Bassishaw
Peter James John George & Susannah Elizabeth
MC 13/11/1861 Stepney St Dunstan
Sarah to Phinelas
Peat WM 3/12/1792 London St Botolph
Bishopsgate
Theodosia Laura Thomas & Eliza *3 FC
18/8/1859 St Marylebone St Mary
Thomas to Mary Stevenson
* *2/1 HM 27/11/1799London St Botolph without Aldersgate
Thomas
to Harriet Jane Mason * *2/2 HM 20/11/1833
St Pancras Old Church
Thomas Thomas & Mary
MC 15/6/1849 St Marylebone St Mary
Thomas Edward
Thomas Ralph &Emma Elizabeth MC 9/1/1876 Stepney St Thomas
Thomas
Henry to Emily Hudson Atherton HM 11/12/1871 London St Botolph
Without Aldergate
Thomas Musgrave Thomas & Eliza *3 MC
18/6/1849 St Marylebone St Mary
Thomas Ralph John George
& Susanna Elizabeth MC 13/11/1861 Stepney St Dunstan
Thomas
Ralph to Emma Elizabeth Cox HM 7/2/1875 Spital Fields
St Mary Spital Square or
Wheeler Chapel
Thomas William William & Jane
MC 7/2/1858 St Marylebone St Mary
William
Peter Heaphy & Jane MC 14/12/1768
London St Michael Bassishaw
William Thomas &
Harriet Jane *2/2 MC 13/12/1835 St Marylebone St Mary
William John George & Susanna Elizabeth MC 24/11/1856
Stepney St Thomas
MC Male Christening
FC Female Christening
HM
Wedding Record ( Husband's Name)
Background to Heaphy - Artists
- UK
Comment :- The daughter of an Irish Clergyman named HEAPHY
married
the eldest son of a nobleman (name unknown)
Their son :
John Gerrard HEAPHY (took his mothers maiden name)
born .c. 1750
in England?
John Gerrard HEAPHY a merchant? married a Frenchwoman
(name unknown - Katharine Gerard)
n ?? John to Rachel
Ashley HM 1777 IGI was this a second marriage?* *1/2
n ?? John Gerrard to Sarah
Smith HM 1803 IGI was this a third marriage? ***1/3
Their son: Thomas
HEAPHY the elder born LONDON 29/12/1775 (not shown IGI)
married 1. Mary Stevenson in 1799 (IGI *2/1)
married
2 . Harriet Jane Mason in 1833 (IGI*2/2)
Thomas HEAPHY
the elder (b 1775) & Mary Stevenson had at least 5 children:
Thomas b 2 April 1813 Mary Ann b 1801 Elizabeth b ? Charles b 1821 Another
Daughter
at St Johns Wood m. Musgrave m Murray
New Zealand ?
LONDON
(IGI) (IGI) Explorer VC
Their son :
Thomas HEAPHY the younger(b 1813) married Eliza Bradstreet
of Little Wenham,
Suffolk in 1842
They had 11 children registered christened
in LONDON (IGI *3)
Their son: Francis Bradstreet HEAPHY (b 1850? christened
January 1851)
possibly (taken from middle name), My grandfather
Joseph Francis Neville Heaphy
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My
Grandfather: Joseph Francis HEAPHY (b 1888)
Lived in London as a child, worked
for Nestles in London, America and Switzerland. Married Florence Mary Suddes (ex
Yorkshire UK), September 1913 at Hackney London. Died Worthing Sussex UK 1956
Served British Army 1914 -18, Victorian type, rather distant did not disclose family
history. Known to have two sisters married lived in the UK, my father William an
only child, infant sister died aaged 3 of TB.
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My Father: - William Kenneth HEAPHY (b 5/10/1915) b. North Hackney, LONDON
Also
worked as manager for Nestles in London, Argentina and Malaya. Died Kuala Lumpur
1954
Served in RAF 1940 - 45 Radar Technician. Married Gladys Sutton Brown (
ex Kingston - Jamaica) 1941
son David b.1942 ( Southhampton UK), son Peter b.
1949 ( Kuala Lumpur, Malaya), son Michael b. 1950 ( Kuala Lumpur Malaya),
daughter Patricia b.1954 (Worthing UK)
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Myself: Peter Kenneth HEAPHY (b 29/3/1949 Singapore )
Worked
in UK as harvesting forester, worked in volountary service in the Territory of Papua
New Guinea , sawmilling married Margaret Balchin (ex Melbourne, Australia) in Wewak
TPNG 1971, now working as supervisor for Dept of Transport Mackay QLD Australia,
daughter
Eleanor b. 1972 ( Madang TPNG), son Andrew b. 1973 ( Odstock UK), son James b. 1975
( Odstock UK), son Peter b.1978 ( Mackay QLD) , son Paul b.1979 ( Mackay QLD)
daughter
Emily b. 1982 (Mackay QLD, son Luke b. 1986 ( Mackay QLD.
Details of Heaphy Artists, taken from:-
HEAPHY THOMAS the elder(1775 - 1835) Dictionary of National Biography,
Bryans
Dictionary of Painters and Engravers Vol. 111. H-M
(London, G Bell and Sons,
Ltd 1927), also records other Heaphy children as painters.
HEAPHY THOMAS
the younger(1813 -1873) Dictionary of National Biography,
Bryans Dictionary of
Painters and Engravers Vol 111. H-M, also records other Heaphy children as painters
HEAPHY
CHARLES (1821? - 1881) Dictionary of National Biography,
The modern encyclopedia
of AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND,
The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography 1769-1869
Also
listed in Bryans Dictionary of Painters and Engravers Vol 111. H-M
HEAPHY, Archibald
C. Crowthorne, Near Workingham, Berkshire.
paintings dated 1870/1
and 1881/2
HEAPHY, G. 28 Winchester St, Pimlico.(London) paintings dated 1874/5
HEAPHY,
Miss M.A. 7 St John's Wood Road, Regent's Park.(London)
paintings
dated 1824, 1825.
HEAPHY, Miss Theodosia, 8 Wellington Square, Chelsea, S.W.
(London)
paintings dated 1883/4, 1884, 1885.
I
have recently purchased (1998) a small limited publication, No 569 of 750 copies
(1933) :-
The Royal Society of British Artist's Art Club Publications
Publication
No 1
THOMAS HEAPHY
(1775 - 1835)
First President of the Society
By WILLIAM T. WHITLEY
1933
Extract of Contents
Editors Foreword:
As Editor it is my privilege to acknowledge gratefully the gracious permission of
his Majesty the King to reproduce certain letters in the Royal Archives at Windsor.
The help and suggestions of Miss M. Mackenzie, Registrar of the Royal Archives at
Windsor Castle, and of Mr C. H. Colins Baker, the Surveyor of the Kings Pictures,
cannot go unacknowledged. It would have been impossible to compile the list of works
by Thomas Heaphy but for the collaboration of their present owners, to whom, collectively
, for want of space, I tender my most sincere thanks, and particularly to Mrs. Bareham,
Mr C.B. Stevenson, the Curator of the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-on-Tyne, the Earl
of Yarborough, Lt-Col. S.G.Knox,C.M.G.
and R.T.G. Paterson, Esq., for permission
to reproduce works in their possession, finally thanks are due to my fellow members
of the Publication's Sub- Committee of the R.B.A. Art Club, Mrs Whittington, Miss
Gertrude Lindsay. and Messrs. John Cole, Frederick Hand, Adrian Hill, R Kirkland
Jamieson, P.F.Millard and Gilbert B.Solomon.
HESKETH HUBBARD
E4, Albany, Piccadilly, W.I. London
Thomas Heaphy, who was
in his day a popular and successful painter was born in London on December 29th
1775, in the parish of Cripplegate, and according to the brief memoir written by
F. M. O' Donoghue for the Dictionary of National Biography, was of noble descent
on his father's side. O' Donoghue, who says that he obtained his information from
members of the Heaphy family, states that the artists father, John Heaphy was born
on a battlefield, where his father was killed. Johns father, according to this account,
was the eldest son of a nobleman, who had made a runaway match with the daughter
of an Irish clergyman named Heaphy. But the legality of this match was contested,
and the matter was compromised by a provision being made for the widow, and for the
education of the child, who was required to take his mother's name. Nothing however
is said of this romantic affair by Roget in his note on Heaphy in his History of
the Old Water Colour Society although Roget's information was derived, indirectly,
from Heaphy's son.
Nor is it mentioned by Redgrave in A Century of Painters.
Redgrave's statement about Heaphy's origin agrees with that of Roget, that the painter
was descended from a Frenchman, who, on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes* (1685)
left France and settled in the eastern part of London, where many of his countrymen
were engaged in the manufacture of silk. According to the same authorities, John
Heaphy married a Frenchwoman, Katharine Gerard
*(or Gerrard) and apprenticed
his son Thomas to a dyer, with whom however he remained only a few months. His indentures
were then cancelled and he was articled to an engraver, John Mitchell Meadows, who
had been a pupil of Joseph Strutt. Meadows, to judge by some lectures on engraving
delivered by him at the Surrey Institution in 1809, appears to have been a man of
some cultivation, but he was unsuccessful in his profession and died almost in poverty.
Thomas Heaphy, though he mastered the art of engraving, and was able many years
afterwards to return to it and complete a plate of his most important picture, never
loved the profession to which he was bought up.
He wished to be a painter, and
joined a drawing class, directed according to Roget and Redgrave, by an artist named
Simpson. 'Heaphy' says Roget, 'to whom the canvas was a more attractive than the
copper, used to spend the evenings when he had done his master's work, at a place
of instruction in art, somewhere in Finsbury, conducted by a painter of the name
of Simpson. It seems to have been a good school, for it turned out several scholars
well known afterwards in the profession, among them H Ross, the miniature painter,
father of Sir W.C. Ross, R.A.'
The publication contains details of paintings,
letters to clients, art critics and various descriptions of styles, fees and commissions,
total of 39 pages. 20/12/98
I also have a copy only of a small publication:-
CHARLES
HEAPHY VC
and
THE WARRANT OF 1867
an account of the awarding of the
first Victoria Cross
to a soldier of a Colonial Army
Doug McMillan
Words
and Pix
Brisbane
1990
Extract from publication
HEAPHY'S VC
On
the 11th of May 1867, a military parade, attended by a host of Army,
Navy and
civic dignitaries, was held in Auckland, New Zealand.
When Major General Chute,
commander of the British forces in the Colony,
pinned the medal for valour on
the chest of Major Charles Heaphy, it signalled
the end of a battle that had
lasted for three years . Heaphy had become the first
colonial soldier to be awarded
the Victoria Cross
.
CHARLES HEAPHY - BACKGROUND
Born in 1820, Charles
was the youngest of 5 children of Thomas and Mary
Heaphy. Thomas, a noted artist,
numbered the Prince of Wales, the Duke of
Wellington and Lord Palmerston, a
future Prime Minister, among his friends.
Following Mary's death soon after Charles
was born, Thomas married Harriot Jane
Mason. Obviously the children of the first
marriage did not agree with their fathers
choice for a step mother and their
relationship with him deteriorated. When Thomas
died in 1835, Charles moved from
the family home. Heaphy took up his father's
profession and studied part time
at The Royal Academy of Art while working for
the London and Birmingham Railway.
Before completing his studies in 1839, he
was granted a three year appointment
with the newly formed New Zealand
Company and sailed with their first ship the
Tory, for the new colony.
Employed as the Company's artist and draughtsman, he
took part in the exploration
of much of the land that was to be opened for settlement
on both sides of the Cook Strait
Charles continued to explore and after
a failed farming venture, was promoted
to Land Surveyor for the Province of Auckland
extract:-
Because of his great knowledge of the country Heaphy was seconded
to a flying column commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Sir Henry Havelock VC then taking
part in the siege
of Paterangi Pa (Maori Fortress) near the town of Te Awamutu.
an
ambush was made on this column as they crossed the Mangapiko River, several soldiers
were killed. Heaphy offered to assist the wounded.
extract:-
Heaphy , who had
acquired a knowledge of surgery, offered to assist the wounded man,
Privates Cooper,
McDoole and Cooney, all of the 40th volounteered to carry Cussan
out. As Heaphy
got to his man, a shot rang out from the scrub. A bullet hit the buckle
of his
revolver strap, causing the pistol to drop to the ground.
Pte Cooney rushed into
the scrub and shot the Maori who had fired. At the same
moment a volley was fired
from the heavy undergrowth just a few yards away from
where Heaphy knelt attending
to Cussan. Some five balls riddled his clothing inflicting
minor wounds to his
arm, hip and ribs. Cooper and McDoole were not so lucky.
They fell, both shot
through the heart.
Heaphy continued to assist in the rescue.
An Auckland journalist,
John Fenton, who was on hand to cover the battle, commented
to Heaphy on the state
of his clothes which had been riddled by bullets. The Captain
removed his jacket
to show the result of one of the balls that had struck him. A red
weal, 'as if
it had been slashed by a whip', went from the position where the bullets
had
smashed his belt buckle and half encircled his body. The ball had skidded around
between his ribs and coat without penetrating the flesh.
Heaphy was immediately
promoted to the rank of Major in the Militia.
Heaphy was recommended for the Victoria
Cross, but this was at first refused as
all the criteria required by the Colonial
Office in London was not technically met,
Heaphy insisted and was eventually awarded
the VC.
extract:-
When the recommendation was rejected it must have been a
great disappointment
to him. He had lost his mother in infancy and had later been
robbed of his inheritance.
When turned down for the VC he must have considered
it the last straw. He decided
to fight , both for himself and for the other brave
men of the Colonial forces who
he felt had been maligned by the civil servants
in England. Probably no other man
could have carried it off. He had political
pull unavailable to most others. He was
an old friend of Sir George Grey and was
well known to most of the Government
members and the military leaders. He could
also call on his fathers friends at
home - and did.
EPILOGUE
Heaphy went
on to become Government Surveyor of confiscated lands in the
Waikato, Auckland
Provincial Surveyor, Commissioner of Native Reserves,
Government Insurance Commissioner,
Commissioner of Land Claims and
Judge of the Native Land Court, He was also a
Member of the House of
Representatives for Parnel.
In 1881 his health which
had deteriorated over the years, finally forced his
resignation from all his positions.
He and his wife, Kate left New Zealand
and moved via Sydney, to Brisbane, where
he died of tuberculosis on the
3rd day of August. He was buried in Toowong Cemetery
on the same day.
A suitable head stone has now been erected and the area is tended
by the
Toowong Sub Branch of the Returned Services League. A dawn Service is
held at the graveside every Anzac Day.
The publication contain 21 pages, include
photographs of the site and researchers.
Footnote
Anzac Day is celebrated
with considerable regard in Australia, it recognises and remembers Australians who
died in all wars.