Events
Date of Baptism: 30 July 1620.
Place of Baptism: Prestwich, Lancashire.
The baptism is recorded in the parish register.
Date of Death: unknown.
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Father: Richard Heape.
Mother: Jane.
See the Commentary section.
Spouse: Margaret Wroe. Marriage licence 9 May 1640.
See the information from the marriage licence below. “Margreta Heape vxor Thome Heape” of Outwood was buried 7 November 1671 at Prestwich.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Richard Heape.
Edward Heape.
Thomas Heape (buried 15 November 1730 at Prestwich) married Ellen Dixon 11 November 1679 in Middleton.
Mary Heape.
Alice Heape.
Evidence
Marriage licences in the Archdeaconry of Chester:
1640.
May 9.
John Rowe and Mary Heape, Spinster, Parish of Prestwich, Lanc. Bondsman, Peter Starkie. At Prestwich, Manchester, and Ringley.
May 9.
Thomas Heape and Margaret Rowe, Spinster, Parish of Manchester. Bondsman, Peter Starkey. At Prestwich, Manchester, and Ringley.
from the Royalist Composition Papers (p. 174):
Thomas Heape, of Pilkington, Gent.
(Second Series, Vol. xxxi., No. 1,684, fols. 517, &c.)
fo. 517. Delinquency, in arms under the Earl of Derby, his landlord, against the Parliament. He compounded on a particular which disclosed that he possessed an estate for 99 years of three lives or so long as any of them live of a messuage or tenement and several closes of land in Pilkington, worth ; £45 a year ; which estate he had by assignment, 4 September, 1640, from his father, Richard Heape, in which assignment it was conditioned that if Jane, compounder's mother, survived his father, she should enjoy a moiety of it for life. Debts due to compounder, £50.
Fine, 14 February, 1647[-8], £200. "15 May 1649 The fine reduced to a sixt, according to order, & is £101."
fo. 520. Petition, in which he states that being a tenant under the Earl of Derby he was threatened from his dwelling house into service as a common trooper under the said Earl.
fo. 521. Certificate signed by Wm. Barton, that petitioner took the National Covenant before him 8 February, 1647[-8].
fo. 522. Similar certificate by Tho: Vincent, that he took the Negative Oath on the 9th of the same month.
fo. 523. Particular of his estate.
in a 1663 lease of land in Broughton, John Rydings, schoolmaster of Broughton, and Thomas Heape, senior, of Pilkington, yeoman, were appointed attorneys to take and give seizin. (Chetham Misc. p. 35). It is not clear whether the Thomas Heape is the Thomas of this page, or his uncle.
Commentary
Thomas’s parentage
The Royalist Composition Papers for 1645 record that Richard Heape, of Pilkington, was bailiff to the Earl of Derby. (See Richard’s page.) The 1646 will of Richard Heap of Broadroad, Bury, names his “relation” Richard Heape, late of Outwood in Prestwich, who had the keeping of a lease for land in Pilkington. The Royalist Composition Papers for 1647 notes that Thomas Heape, gentleman of Pilkington, held a lease of 99 years of land in Pilkington by assignment from his father Richard, conditional on his mother Jane enjoying a moiety of it for life.
The will of Richard Heape of Outwoods within Pilkington, made in January 1660/1, does not mention his son Thomas. Perhaps Thomas had already died by then, but I think it is much more likely that Thomas is not mentioned due to having already received the Pilkington lease. Thomas was mentioned in the will of his father in law Edward Wroe made 30 November 1660, and the burial record of Thomas’s wife reads “Margreta vxor Thome Heape”, which would normally imply that Thomas was still alive (uxor means “wife”, vidua means “widow”), although I think usage was often not very strict on this point. Richard Heape’s will probably mentions Thomas’s eldest son Richard Heape.
References
Chetham Miscellanies. new series, v. 2. (Chetham Society, 1909)
Heape, Charles, and Richard Heape. Records of the family of Heape of Heape, Staley, Saddleworth, and Rochdale, from circa 1170 to 1905. (Rochdale, 1905).
Marriage Licences granted within The Archdeaconry of Chester in the Diocese of Chester. v. 4 1639-1644 (Wm Fergusson Irvine ed.) (The Record Society, 1911).
The Royalist Composition Papers: Being the Proceedings of the Committee for Compounding with Delinquents (1643-1660) v. 3. (J.H. Stanning, ed.) (The Record Society for the Publication of Original Documents relating to Lancashire and Cheshire v. 29, 1896).
Will of John Wroe of Unsworth 1653/1669. Proved in the Consistory Court of Chester.