[Illustration] A younger branch of an old Suffolk family, who
derived their name from a hamlet in the parish of Gaseley in this
county. The pedigree is traced to Richard Heigham, who died in 1340;
his grandson Thomas was of Heigham, and died in 1409. The elder line
ended in co-heiresses in 1558. A younger branch was seated at
Barrow, and continued there till 1714, founded by Clement, fourth
son of Thomas Heigham, of Heigham, Esq., who died in 1492. From Sir
Clement, third in descent from the first Clement, the present family
is descended. Hunston was inherited from the heiress of Lurkin in
1701.
See Gage's History of the Hundred of Thingoe, p. 8; and Davy's
Suffolk Collections, Add. MSS. 19,135, vol. lix. p. 50.
ARMS.--_Sable, a fess cheeky, or and azure, between three horse's
heads erased argent_.
Present Representative, John Henry Heigham, Esq.