Re: Hesketh's in Liverpool with Brazil conections

On the other branch of Heskeths in Brazil, the brother's name was Robert, and it looks as if he may have been the first there.

He was already an established merchant there when he was appointed Consul in Maranham in 1812 (he seems to have arrived there in about 1808).In 1837 he moved to Rio de Janeiro as Consul there, a post he held until 1852.

He arried Georgiana Raynsford in 1837 in Rio de Janeiro, where he also raised a family (she retired to Bedford in England byfore 1881):

1837 Robert Raynsford
1839 William Crosbie
1840 George
1842 Eliza Jane
1843 Henry
1845 Hamilton Maria
1847 Georgina Sarah.

There seems to have been a third brother in that first generation.William Hesketh was also a merchant in Maranham, with the earliest reference I yet have as 1815.He succeeded Robert as Consul there in 1837 and seems to have died there in 1856.I have seen to reference to his being married; there is a surviving 1856 will in the National Archives (which I have not yet examined).

Lastly, I missed another Hesketh in Pará.There was a Robert who was buried in the British Cemetery there in 1832.Presumably another son of John Hesketh Sr (and indeed the suggeston of another son John who died in 1832, perhaps before the birth of the John one who went to live on the West Coast in Peru and Chile.


David