Heydon Chapel

Heydon Chapel was originally an early 19th century farm labourer's cottage on the Dr John Dalzell estate. Dr Dalzell served in the Royal Navy with Admiral Horatio Nelson and was invalided out. On his way to Nevis in 1783, he was shipwrecked at Bermuda and remained there the remainder of his life. He married Mary Seymour Poulton of Somerset, Bermuda and slowly acquired about 50 acres in Somerset. He fathered 14 children.

Charles Willis is supposed to have owned the cottage before 1755, succeeded by Miss Mary & Martha Willis c1758, and Mary Willis Tucker c 1759 (Mary Willis married Jonathan Tucker in 1759 and Martha Willis died 1764). Paul Tucker next owned the house until 1789 when it passed to Dr John Dalzell. When he died in 1840, the cottage passed to his daughters, Eliza P Hunt, Frances E Goodfellow, and Eleanor Mullen. Eleanor's husband Charles Mullen held the property until his death c1864 when George Henry Siggins gained it. (reference: Bermuda's Architectural Heritage Series: Sandys)