He had married Emma F Cazenove, the daughter of Phillip Cazenove of Clapham whose sister Louisa married his brother William Henry Hessey (another sister Helen Emma married Ernest St George Cobbold born 1841, of the Suffolk brewery family), the father of Brigadier William Francis Hessey(1868-1939). They had no children.[3]
Writings
Hessey wrote a number of religious texts, including:[3]
Schemata Rhetorica; or tables explanatory of the nature of the Enthymeme, and the various modes of classification adopted by Aristotle in his Rhetoric and Prior Analytics. With notes and an introduction. To which is added the Commentary on Analyt. Prior II. xxix., by Pacius, Oxford, 1845.
A Scripture Argument against permitting Marriage with a Wife's Sister, 2nd edit. London, 1850; 3rd edit. 1855.
The Biographies of the Kings of Judah. Six Lectures, printed for private circulation, London, 1858.
Sunday, its Origin, History, and present Obligation,[6] being the Bampton lectures at Oxford, London, 1860; 2nd edit. 1861; 3rd edit. 1866; 4th edit. 1880; fifth edit. 1889.
Biographies of the Kings of Judah. Twelve Lectures, London, 1865. This volume includes the six lectures which were privately printed in 1858.
Moral Difficulties connected with the Bible: being the Boyle Lectures for 1871–3, three series, London, 1871–3.
^"Alumni oxonienses: the members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886; their parentage, birthplace and year of birth, with a record of their degrees. Being the matriculation register of the University" Foster,J (Ed) Vol II p651 Oxford, Parker & Co,1888
^Merchant Taylors' School register, 1871-1900 Baker, W (Ed) London, Robert Clay, 1907