William Heysham
West India merchant, Barbados slave-owner and MP for Lancaster, brother of Robert Heysham (q.v.), and co-owner (with Humphry Morice, q.v.) of a voyage by the Whydah from London to Whydah/Ouidah and the British Caribbean arriving in 1715. William Heysham sold his interest in the ship to Joseph Lockwood (q.v.) ahead of its 1717 voyage. He also had six slaving voyages directly from Barbados between 1700 and 1702.
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First name: William
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Last name: Heysham
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Primary cohort: London
Sex: Male
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Elizabeth Brocken
Spouse (married 03/09/1687)
Robert Heysham
Brother
Political Offices Held
Parliament
MP for Lancaster 1705-13 June 1716
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Plantation owner: Yes
Sources: Mitchell, Prince of Slavers pp. 116, 138, 140, 239-40. 6 voyages in TASTDB 1700-1702 all described as from Barbados are also attributable to William Heysham of Barbados and MP for Lancaster d. 1716. The William Heysham show on p. 138 offering to invest £4000 in Humphrey Morice's slave-trading in 1720 must have been William Heysham the son (1691-1727). https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/heysham-william-1666-1716 PROB 11/554/8.
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Crossings (1)
25726 - Whydah
Role: Owner
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Death
Date: 13/06/1716
Location: Bath (Somerset)
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Was slave trading profitable: Don't know
Will
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Courts: PCC
Will of William Heysham of St Michael Barbados ['suddenly intended off this island'] proved 01/09/1716. He left £8500 to his son William, and £8000 to his daughter Elizabeth at 17 or on her marriage. He ordered his lands and 'negroe slaves' in Barbados be sold and his property be moved out of the 'American ports.' He described his brother as Robert Heysham merchant in London and a second brother Gyles as 'late.'
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