When Albert Heap was born on 29 May 1862, in Cedar Grove, Highland Township, Franklin, Indiana, United States, his father, William Henry Harrison Heap, was 24 and his mother, Mary Whitehead, was 27. He lived in Ohio, United States in 1927. He died on 26 June 1927, in Lemon, Butler, Ohio, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Maple Grove Cemetery, Cleves, Miami Township, Hamilton, Ohio, United States.
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English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): usually a habitational name from Heap, a lost place in Bury (Lancashire), but sometimes also a topographic name for someone who lived by a small hill or rock pile, from Middle English hep, heip(e) ‘heap, pile’ (Old English hēap).
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