General Notes

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# Occupation: 1581 Manager of the Mines Royal
# Note: Naturalized on June 4,1605. Daniel II. and his wife lived in Keswick. On reconstruction of an old house near Keswick Bridge a carved oak panelling is said to have been uncovered with the initials DH-JH (Daniel H.- Jane H). He is the author of a diary edited by George Hammersley: Daniel Hechstetter the Younger, Memorabila and Letters, 1600 - 1639. 1639. The manuscripts were acquired by the Duke of Sumerset, the successor of the Earl of Northumberland for Bolton and Newlands around 1705 from "old Mrs. Heckstetter at Keswick" (widow of Francis or Joseph) and are now in the archives of the Dukes of Northumberland, Kendal. Manager of the Mines Royal together with his brother Emanuel, and his brother-in-law Mark Steinberger. About 1590 they began exploration of copper mines at Coniston. At that time Daniel seems to have taken residence there when he bought "Parkamor" an estate up on a hill east of Coniston Water, near Hawkshead and five miles from Coniston. After the death of his wife in 1623 he leased it to Thomas Rawlinson and from 1532 -37 to Richard and James Keen. In 1637 Parkamor was sold to Gawen Braythwayt of Ambleside for 190 Pounds. In 1627 Daniel II. signed a lease of the Mines together with his nephew Joseph. From 1633 and 1636 he stayed with his son Roger in Soham and after his return to Keswick with his daughter Radigunda and his son Francis.