When John Heap was born on 1 November 1789, in Hurst, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Heap III, was 46 and his mother, Mary Lees, was 42. He married Betty Lees on 30 August 1801, in Prestwich, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1851 and Tonge near Middleton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1861. He died on 2 August 1853, in Fort Laramie, Goshen, Wyoming, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Fort Laramie Cemetery, Fort Laramie, Goshen, Wyoming, 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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