When Horace Joseph Piper was born on 17 January 1902, in Gillingham, Kent, England, United Kingdom, his father, Horace William Piper, was 35 and his mother, Beatrice Excell, was 23. He married Ada May Bedingfield on 12 October 1946, in Gillingham, Kent, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Dover, Kent, England, United Kingdom in 1939. He died on 2 April 1957, in Gillingham, Kent, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 55.
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English (mainly southern): occupational name for a player on the pipes, Middle English pipere, sometimes a paid town musician.
English: sometimes a variant of Peppard .
English: perhaps occasionally an occupational name from late Middle English piper ‘repairer or layer of pipes; plumber’.
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