Peter John Heywood - Old Kirk Braddan (Church of St. Brendan) - Braddan, Isle of Man
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A rectangular white marble memorial tablet for Peter John Heywood Esq inside Old Kirk Braddan (Church of St. Brendan) at Braddan Bridge in Braddan.
Waymark Code: WM14PMR
Location: Isle of Man
Date Posted: 08/07/2021
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A rectangular white marble memorial tablet for Peter John Heywood Esq inside Old Kirk Braddan (Church of St. Brendan) at Braddan Bridge in Braddan.
This memorial is mounted on the south side of the church immediately in front of the balcony. It is below the wooden panel which displays the Royal Arms of Queen Victoria.
The epitaph on the memorial is as follows:
"IN MEMORIAM
PETER JOHN HEYWOOD, ESQ.
FORMERLEY OF THE NUNNERYT, A DEEMSTER OF THIS ISLE
DIED 6 FEBY. 1790, AGED 49.
BURIED UNDER THIS CHURCH.
JANE
DAUGHTER OF THE ABOVE, AND RELICT OF THE
REVD. WM. JAS. AISLABIE, M. A. RECTOR OF HOLYWELL, HUNTS
DIED 28 SEPTR. 1856, AGED 79
BURIED IN THE CEMETERY.
ERECTED BY E.C. FLEETWOOD, AND ELIZTH. NEE HEYWOOD HIS WIFE "
“Peter John Heywood- b. 1739, d. 1790
He became a Deemster of the Isle of Man. The position of Deemster is the title conferred on a Judge under the Isle of Man’s justice arrangements.
“He was a man of considerable culture and literary tastes. It was his correspondence with Professor Thorkelin, of Copenhagen, that we owe the preservation of probably the oldest Manx Ballard in existence. He was the last Heywood who held the Nunnery estates, as he sold them to John Taubman of the Bowling Green, Castletown. By his wife Elizabeth (born 1745, died 1808, buried at Whitehaven), only daughter or James Spedding, whom he married at Whitehaven, on the 15th of May 1762, he had issue 6 sons and 3 daughters.” Probably the most famous of their sons was Peter who was born in 1773.
Peter John Heywood
More information on the Manx Ballard can found at the following link:Fin and Ossian
Peter was the Midshipman on HMS Bounty. He was born in the early 1770s and joined the Royal Navy in 1786.
Peter Heywood