Pocahontas
Heacham has historic ties to Pocahontas, who married John Rolfe, a native of the village, in 1614. John Rolfe took his wife, Pocahontas, and their infant son, Thomas, to visit his family at Heacham Hall in 1616. She died on the return trip after the ship they were on docked at Gravesend in Kent to get care for the ailing Native American princess. Pocahontas is buried at Gravesend in the St George's parish churchyard. Rolfe returned to Virginia and was killed in the 1622 Indian massacre near Jamestown. His remains are missing. It is possible that his remains were returned to Heacham and buried there at a later date but there are no records to indicate this. The Rolfe family home, Heacham Hall, burned down in the early 1900s.
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