Richard Hammersley HEENAN, 127

1847 - 1920  (73 years)

• Name	Richard Hammersley HEENAN  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  Suffix	127
  Born	5 Jan 1847	ParsonTown, Kings County, Ireland   [1, 5, 7]
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1871	Multan, India   [8]
  Residence	1875	Bhawulpoor State, Bhawalpoor, India.   [9]
  Residence	1880
  Married	Dec 1884	Rathdown, Ireland   [3]
  Residence	1891	Bollin Fee, Cheshire, England   [10]
  Census	1901	Wilmslow, Cheshire, England   [11]
  Property transaction	16 Jun 1905	Holyhead, Wales
  Census	2 Apr 1911	Eirias, Caernarvonshire, Wales
  Education	Model National School, Parsonstown, Ireland  [8, 12]
  Occupation	1918 Retired from role as Chairman and MD of Heenan and Froude
  Occupation	Bought the works of Woodhouse & Co in Manchester - was the foundation of what became Heenan and Froude - 1880  [13]
  Occupation	chief engineer to public works department of India Bawlphore State - 1879  [13]
  Occupation	Engineer - East India Company - 1864  [8, 13]
  Occupation	executive engineer - Bhawulpoor State, Bhawalpoor, India - 1879  [9]
  Residence	1919	Kensington, England   [4]
  Died	17 Jun 1920	Middlesex, England   [5, 14, 15]
  Probate	23 Jul 1920	London Registry   [14]
  _UID	C0C3355E09624BECA76BC72B3FEDFFA289FE
  Person ID	I35	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	16 Sep 2021

  
  

  Father	George HEENAN, 127,   b. 1814,   d. 18 Dec 1866, Parsonstown, Ireland  (Age 52 years)
  Mother	Belinda H HAMMERSLEY, 127,   b. 1819, Ireland ,   d. Mar 1899, Rathdown, Ireland  (Age 80 years)
  Married	22 Aug 1843	Shinrone Church   [16]
  _UID	17E5D91CD8C143A5BBF347254F6AE8B3E0D8
  Family ID	F66	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ada DRUMMOND, 127,   b. 1865, Manchester, Lancashire, England ,   d. Mar 1932, Kensington, London, England  (Age 67 years)
  Married	1885  [1]
  _UID	387503B3EE7C4C9C818B35F9D2EF91AEEF61
  Children	1. John Nelson Dundas HEENAN, 127,   b. 4 Oct 1892, Altrincham Reg Distrct, England ,   d. 10 Nov 1979, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England  (Age 87 years)   2. Robert Lawrence Hammersley HEENAN, 127,   b. 12 Sep 1904, Wilmslow, Cheshire, England ,   d. Dec 1974, Truro, Cornwall, England  (Age 70 years)   3. Richard Edward Hammersley HEENAN, 127,   b. 23 Oct 1891, Wilmslow, Cheshire, England ,   d. Mar 1967, Worthing, Sussex, England  (Age 75 years)   4. Olivia Violet Beresford Hammersley HEENAN, 127,   b. 1894, Wilmslow, Cheshire, England ,   d. 2 Feb 1982, Kensington and Chelsea, Greater London, England  (Age 88 years)   5. Kathleen Ada HEENAN, 127,   b. 1899, Wilmslow, Cheshire, England
  Last Modified	14 Feb 2018
  Family ID	F40	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Residence - 1891 - Bollin Fee, Cheshire, England Census - 2 Apr 1911 - Eirias, Caernarvonshire, Wales  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Documents

  Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser 20 February 1902 Election of Richard Hammersley Heenan

  
  

• Notes

  1871 application to Institute of Civil Engineers for admission (source ancestry.com) Address - Bhawnpoe Mooltan1 and Parsonstown India After being educated at the Parsonstown Model School and obtaining the first prize for physical science - including mathematics, hydrostatics and electricity , he was engaged As under: 1862 in the Bangor and Holy[wood Railway2 for Mssrs Robert & John Edwards contractors 1862-4 on the the Parsonstown and Port??? Ry 3for under Mt?? Resident engineer 1864-8 on the East Indian Railway4 as an assistant engineer on the [Chord] line and at ???? In March 1868 he entered the service of the government of India PWD5 as an asst engine and at first had charge under W Leonard, M Inst CS of the Hooghly River works at Mayapore In August 1869 he was transferred to the Indus Valley State Railway as officiating executive engineer and in November 1870 he was appointed Ex Engineer of the [Bhawnlhore Station] which position he still holds Signed by personal knowledge by 5 people Passed by January 1872 as associate 1875 application to Institute of Mechanical Engineers UK (source ancestry.com) Membership proposal form of R H Heenan, executive engineer to the Bhawulpoor State, Bhawalpoor, India. Proposer’s statement: ‘Mr Heenan was three years with Edwards and Company, Railway Contractors in Ireland then appointed assistant Engineer East Indian Railway then 2 years as assistant first class & two years in charge of the Suttey Bridge then appointed and at present acting as Chief executive Engineer of the Bhawulpoor State. He has large workshops under his charge and all the steamers dredges & c on the canals & irrigation of the State’. Signed by the proposer, Walter May. ———————————————————- 1 Mooltan - alternative spelling of Multan. Multan was the headquarters of Multan District in the Multan Division of Punjab Province during the British period..Source - fbis.org 2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holywood_railway_station#History The Belfast and County Down Railway (B&CDR) opened the line between Queen’s Quay, Belfast and Holywood (northern ireland) on 2 August 1848. Holywood was a terminus until May 1865, when the Belfast, Holywood and Bangor Railway (BH&BR) opened from Holywood to Bangor.  In 1859 the B&CDR sold its Holywood branch to the BH&BR, with the result that Holywood station came under BH&BR management. However, the B&CDR leased the BH&BR line from 1878 and took it over in 1884, which meant that Holywood station returned to its original management and ownership. 3 Believed to be Parsonstown and Portumna Bridge Railway 4 From 1860 onward, British India possessed one of the seven most extensive railroad networks in the world. 5 Public Works Department 6 The town of Bhawulpoor, is on the left bank of the Gharra river, distant 229 miiles from Ferozpoor, this is far north of India,)Name: Hammersley /Heenan/ [7, 8] Name: Hammersley /Heenan/, Name: Hammersley /Heenan/, Name: Richard H /Heenens/, [7, 14] Residence: Returned to England - ill health prevented continuation of his career in India Head of household Census: Head of household Property transaction: Purchase of Isallt Bach Estate, approx two miles from Holyhead, for £1000 at auction. Source  The Weekly News and Visitors' Chronicle for Colwyn Bay Colwyn Llandrillo Conway Deganwy and Neighbourhood Census: Large household of children and servants Probate: Hammerley Heenan of 57 Harrington Gardens, Kensington Died June 17, 1920. Probate granted to Ada Heenan, Richard Edward Hammerley Heenan and John Nelson Dundas Heenan, engineers, and Sir Willian Henry Vaudrey, knight. Effects £67434 Died: Review of his career including reference to early appointments in India, formation of Heenan and Froude company and involvement in projects such as Blackpool Tower.

  
  

• Sources

  [S422] 1911 Census, England and Wales, Ancestry.com, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), Class: RG14; Piece: 34545; Schedule Number: 152. [S423] UK, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960, Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department, (Ancestry.com Operations Inc), The National Archives of the UK; Kew, Surrey, England; Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and successors: Inwards Passenger Lists.; Class: BT26; Piece: 489; Item: 54. [S424] Civil registration, marriages, Ireland, Ancestry.com, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.). [S425] London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.). [S426] England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007, Ancestry.com, (Ancestry.com Operations Inc.). [S427] London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1931, Ancestry.com, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Church of England Parish Registers, 1754-1931; Reference Number: p87/ctc/007. [S430] 1901 England and Wales Census, Ancestry.com, (Ancestry.com Operations Inc), Class: RG13; Piece: 3319; Folio: 117; Page: 38. [S2754] Membership Application. [S2755] Membership application . [S447] Census England and Wales, National Archives of the UK, (Ancestry.com Operations Inc). [S484] 1901 Census, England and Wales, (Ancestry.com Operations Inc). [S429] Citation in article, Kings County Chronicle, (Find My Past). [S428] History of Heenan and Froude, Manchester Courier, (Find My Past). [S431] England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995, Ancestry.com, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.). [S437] Obituary by Institute of Mechanical Engineers, Institute of Mechanical Engineers. [S626] Marriage announcements, (Find My Past).