A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Heastey, George
HEASTEY. (Lieut., 1810. f-p., 14; h-p., 32.)
George Heastey was born 19 June, 1788, at Devonport.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 July, 1801 as A.B., on board the Ville de Paris 110, bearing the flag in the Channel of Hon. Wm. Cornwallis; proceeded to the Mediterranean in 1802 as Midshipman of the Belleisle 74, Capts. John Whitby and Wm. Hargood; rejoined the Ville de Paris in 1805 (after having gone in pursuit of the Franco-Spanish fleet to the West Indies); and between Nov. 1806 and Oct. 1S08, was again employed in the Mediterranean on board the Royal Sovereign 100, and Ocean 98, flag-ships of Vice-Admirals Edw. Thornbrough and Lord Collingwood. Being then appointed Acting-Lieutenant of the Montagu 74, Capts. Rich. Hussey Moubray and John Halliday, he was much employed in the boats of that ship up the Adriatic, and commanded a battery at the reduction of Santa Maura in April, 1810. He was officially promoted on 4 May in the latter year, but he did not leave the Montagu until May, 1811; on 25 Sept. in which year we find him joining the Recruit 18, Capts. Humphrey Fleming Senhouse, John Evans, Geo. Rich. Pechell, Thos. Sykes, and John Lawrence, on the North American station, where, prior to his being paid off in Jan. 1815, he served as First-Lieutenant at the taking of Washington, and of other places in the Chesapeake. His last appointment was, 28 Feb. 1818, to the Carnation 18, Capts. Hon. John Gordon and Wm. Nugent Glascock, with whom he served as Senior on the Newfoundland and Halifax stations, until Sept. 1819 [errata 1], at which period he invalided.
Lieut. Heastey married, 23 Aug. 1821, and has issue four children. Agent – J. Hinxman.