When Alfred Thomas Heap was born on 27 November 1833, in Whitefield, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Heap II, was 41 and his mother, Hannah Cooper, was 38. He married Alice Perrin on 4 May 1852, in Bowdon, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Openshaw, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1861 and Gillingham, Kent, England in 1871. He died on 20 April 1875, in Kirkdale, Walton on the Hill, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 41.
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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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Possible Related NamesThe details of the story aren't clear but the facts do line up with this being the correct Alfred Heap, son of William Heap II.
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