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:
- Emma Amalia Beechy (*1784; † 1859)
- Henry William Beechey (*1788; † 4 August 1862) British painter, egyptologist
- Charles Beechey (*1789)
- Caroline Beechey (*1790)
- Harriet Beechey (*1792)
He secondly married Ann Phyllis Jessop (*3 August 1764; 14 December 1833) in 1793 and had 16 children by her:
- Ann Phyllis Beechey (*1794; †December 1883)
- Frederick William Beechey (17 February 1796;– 29 November 1856), Royal Navy captain, geographer, politician
- George Duncan Beechey (*1798; † 6 December 1852), painter
- Anna Dodsworth Beechey (*1800)
- William Nelson Beechey (*3 August 1801; † 1 August 1878)
- Charlotte Earl Beechey (*3 August 1801; † 28 November 1849)
- Alfred Beechey (*24 June 1803)
- St. Vincent Beechey (*7 August 1806; †19 August 1899), clergyman
- Richard Brydges Beechey (*17 May 1808; † 14 March 1895), painter and admiral in the British navy
- Jane Henrietta Frances Beechy (*19 December 1809)
- Augusta Beechey (* 1812)
- Fredericka Anne Beechey (* 1814)
- William Ernest Beechey (* 1816)
- Frances Beechey (* 1818)
- Phyliss Beechey (* 1820)
- Daughter S. R. Beechey (* 1822)
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