William Beechey - Family

Family

William Beechey's first marriage was to Mary Ann Jones (* ca. 1760, † 1793)in 1772 (other sources say 1778). Beechey had five children with her:

  1. Emma Amalia Beechy (*1784; † 1859)
  2. Henry William Beechey (*1788; † 4 August 1862) British painter, egyptologist
  3. Charles Beechey (*1789)
  4. Caroline Beechey (*1790)
  5. Harriet Beechey (*1792)

He secondly married Ann Phyllis Jessop (*3 August 1764; 14 December 1833) in 1793 and had 16 children by her:

  1. Ann Phyllis Beechey (*1794; †December 1883)
  2. Frederick William Beechey (17 February 1796;– 29 November 1856), Royal Navy captain, geographer, politician
  3. George Duncan Beechey (*1798; † 6 December 1852), painter
  4. Anna Dodsworth Beechey (*1800)
  5. William Nelson Beechey (*3 August 1801; † 1 August 1878)
  6. Charlotte Earl Beechey (*3 August 1801; † 28 November 1849)
  7. Alfred Beechey (*24 June 1803)
  8. St. Vincent Beechey (*7 August 1806; †19 August 1899), clergyman
  9. Richard Brydges Beechey (*17 May 1808; † 14 March 1895), painter and admiral in the British navy
  10. Jane Henrietta Frances Beechy (*19 December 1809)
  11. Augusta Beechey (* 1812)
  12. Fredericka Anne Beechey (* 1814)
  13. William Ernest Beechey (* 1816)
  14. Frances Beechey (* 1818)
  15. Phyliss Beechey (* 1820)
  16. Daughter S. R. Beechey (* 1822)

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