Occupation: Lord Mayor of London
Deputy Governor of Jamaica: 1663–1664, acting, first time
Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica: August 1671–November 1674, second time; 1682–1684, third time
James Heavey, the second son of John Heavey and Mary Cullen, was born in 1866 in Multyfarnham, Westmeath, Ireland. He migrated to New Zealand about 1875 with his parents. James's father John worked for the railways in Otago as a platelayer (a workman who lays and repairs railroad tracks). James's parents settled in Oamaru.
James worked for the NZ Railways. He was living in Wellington in 1900 when he married Fanny Maria Haylock in Wellington. The couple had ten children, born at various locations in the southern North Island where James was based with the railways. James died in 1938 in Palmerston North, and was buried in Terrace End Cemetery, Palmerston North.
Mother of 10 children.
Immigration: FROM 07 SEP 1850 TO 27 DEC 1850; Lyttelton, Canterbury, New Zealand ; Ship - CRESSY
Occupation: Surveyor