When Robert John Heath was born in 1853, in St Pancras, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom, his father, Robert James Heath, was 32 and his mother, Sophia Good, was 26. He lived in Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom in 1901 and Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom in 1911. He died on 6 January 1924, at the age of 71, and was buried in Cathays, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom.
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English: topographic name for someone who lived ‘(on the) heath’ (Middle English he(a)th, Old English hǣth) or else a habitational name from any of numerous places called with this word. The same word also denoted heather, the characteristic plant of heathland areas. This surname has also been established in Dublin, Ireland, since the late 16th century.
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