Robert Heaton

Name: Robert Heaton Event Date: 1 Feb 1748. Event Type: Christening (Baptism)

Parish: Almondbury, All Hallows (West Yorkshire) Father's Name: Robert Heaton

Peter Barnard and Robert Heaton, of Epworth, in the County of Lincoln, were partners in a Mercers, Linen and Woollen Drapers and Grocers Business. It is said that the family, long and eminent residents in the towns of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, encouraged and financed the seafaring enterprises of William Barnard Rhodes.

Victims Details: Heaton; Place of crime: Epworth. Trial date: 3/6/1784; Convict: Mary HARRISON

CRIME: Taking certain bills of exchange out of a letter delivered by William Kennard of Holborn in London, at the Post Office in Gainsborough, and negotiating the same at the shop of Messrs Barnard and Heaton at Epworth

Robert must have retired in 1791 as the following notice appeared in the London Gazette issue 13331, page 451, Epworth, July 28, 1791

Notice is hereby given, that the Partnership between Peter Barnard and Robert Heaton, of Epworth, in the County of Lincoln, Mercers, Linen and Woolen drapers and Grocers, was, by mutual Consent, dissolved on the ill Day of July instant, and the Business will for the future be carried on by the said Robert Heaton on his own Account: All Debts due to the said Partnership are to be paid to the said Peter Barnard, who is authorized to receive the fame.

Signed Peter Barnard & Robert Heaton

Death Notice: Robert Heaton, Age: 85. Birth Date: 1748. Burial Date: 6 Apr 1833. Burial Place: Epworth, Lincoln, England. FHL Film Number: 1542186