When Bancroft Heald was born on 24 July 1704, in Kennett Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America, his father, Samuel Heald, was 35 and his mother, Mary Bancroft, was 31. He died on 24 September 1704, in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America, at the age of 0.
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English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): topographic name for someone who lived on or near a hillside, from Middle English helde, hilde, hulde ‘slope’ (Old English hælde).
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