Thomas Heape of Outwood
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.
These relationship are recorded in the Royalist Composition Papers (see the Evidence section below).
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
The main reason for giving Thomas Heap and Margaret the son Thomas, is that the younger Thomas is known to have lived at Outwood in Pilkington, where Thomas Heap and Margaret and Thomas’s parents Richard and Jane lived. However, there is no record of Thomas Heap and Margaret having any children.
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.