Michael D.Heath-Caldwell M.Arch.

1748

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Wednesday 15 October 1902
Nottingham Journal

Queries
James Heath, Engraver, 1757-1834 - Heath married and had issue (1) George Heath, of whom presently; (2) William Heath, said to have been a bookseller at Nottingham, who died 8th June,1786, aged sixty-one, having married 14th November, 1746 (where?) Mary Hartray, and had by her six children, four of whom married and left issue; (3) Hannah Heath, who married - - - Stanley;and (4) Joseph Heath, who married Miss Cooper.

George Heath, before named, married secondly a Miss Humball, and by her had issue (1) James Heath, the eminent engraver;(2) Joseph Heath who was living about 1820, unmarried; (3) George Heath, who married Mary Fielding, and had three children, George, William and Mary;and (4) Sarah Heath, who married a solicitor named Boatflower.

James Heath, the engraver, was born 19th April 1757, and died 15th November 1834, in Coram St, London. An account of him will be found in the "D.N.B." He married about 1777 Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Thomas, a Welsh clergyman, and by her had one son, George Thomas Heath, serjeant-at-law, born 27th June, 1779. Soon after this date Mrs Heath left her husband and went back to Wales to live with her relatives. James Heath, whose life was stained by domestic infidelity, left a large illegitimate family by a Mrs Pillipson.

Serjeant Heath had four sons and two daughters. Of Douglas Denon Heath (1811-1897) the second son, an account is given in the Supplement to the "D.N.B." He was an M.A. and Fellow of Trin. Coll., Cambridge and Senior Wrangler and Smith's Prizeman in 1832. 

The third son, the Rev. Dunbar Isidore Heath (1816-88) M.A., and Fellow of Trin. Coll. Camb. and Fifth Wrangler in 1838, also figures in the "D.N.B." but his parentage is not stated there.
The eldest son, the Rev. John Moore Heath (1808-82), was also an M.A. of Trin. Coll. Camb. and a Wrangler. The youngest son, Sir Leopold George Heath  K.C.B.,a distinguished British admiral, is still alive at the age of eighty-four. 

I am very glad of any information bearing on the earlier portion of the Heath pedigree, which is principally derived from notes on the family communicated by Serjeant Heath to his son-in-law William Godfrey Whatman. 

As no dates or localities are given, there is but little to aid us in identifying the individuals mentioned, especially as Heath is a common name almost everywhere. It is supposed they came of a yeoman family in Staffordshire - tradition says from Horton, near Leek, but the registers contain no record of this family. 

It is not known where James Heath was born, and his baptism would probably prove the key to the earlier pedigree.

Sir Leopold does not know where James Heath was buried, and of his wife Elizabeth Thomas no more accurate particulars can be traced. Serjeant Heath had a cousin, a Mr Heath, who had a large warehouse in London. Probably he would be one of the two sons of George Heath and Mary Fielding.

It is a curious thing that the descendants of William Heath and Mary Hartray have intermarried several times with the illegitimate descendants of James Heath and Mrs Phillipson.
The "D.N.B." states that "a portrait of Heath, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, is in the collection of Mr Samual Parr at Nottingham." I am told that this is quite a mistake. The portrait is by an artist named Kennedy(?) but as engraved by Samual William Reynolds. 
Mr Parr, who has been dead some years, married a great-granddaughter of William Heath and Mary Hartray. 
Aleyn Lyell Reade.
Park Corner, Blunderlands 

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Derby Mercury
Friday 25 November 1748

This Day is Published - A Catalogue of Valuable Books; in Divinity, History, Law, Physic &c.
Which will begin to be sold very Cheap at J. Roe's Bookseller in Derby, on Tuesday the 13th of December 1748, Catalogues (with the Lowest Price Fix'd) to be had Gratis at Joseph Heath's Bookseller in Nottingham; Joseph Terry's in Burton,  - 
 

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