Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: unknown.
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Father: Thomas Heape.
Mother: Elinor Warworke.
Spouse: Anne Foxe. Marriage licence 3 January 1623/4, at Prestwich.
“An Heape” the wife of Thomas Heape the elder was buried in Prestwich 19 November 1654.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Thomas Heape (baptized 15 May 1625 in Prestwich - buried 12 February 1628/9 in Prestwich)
Jane Heape (baptized 19 August 1627 in Prestwich - buried 2 April 1639 in Prestwich)
John Heape (baptized 19 December 1629 in Prestwich)
Thomas Heape (baptized 4 December 1631 in Prestwich - buried 5 November 1634 in Prestwich)
Richard Heape (baptized 20 July 1634 in Prestwich) possibly married Elizabeth Gaskell 3 March 1673/4 in Middleton, Lancashire.
Evidence
Marriage licence.
January 3 [1623/4] Thomas Heap and Anne Fox, Spinster. Bondsman, Samuel Hallows. At Prestwich, Lanc.
1636 Recognizance roll (Lancashire Archives QSB/1/171/12):
1636. Pilkington & Manchester – Thomas Heap, yeoman, to keep the peace to John Bexwicke, constable.
From the 1640 will of Nathan Walworth:
Unto my cozin Hugh Parre my new Bible covered with greene velvet and all my estate and interest in all that house parlours or chambers situate in Fennell Street Manchester and all that house shop and stable in Milgate Manchester which premises in Fennell street and Milgate I hold of James Lord Strange during the lives of Thomas Heape son of Thomas Heape of Pilkington James Wilsonne son of William Wilsonne of Prestwich and John Parre son of Hugh Parre of Kersley And I bequeath to my niece Mary wife of the said Hugh Parre tenne pounds [from original will: House above on lease from Mr Robert Bartholomew during life of Thomas Heap given to Hester]
From a 1652-3 list of contributors to Mr Holland (then minister at Ringley):
Thomas Heape…07 00 [s. d.]
References
The Correspondence of Nathan Warlworth and Peter Seddon of Outwood and other documents relating to the building of Ringley chapel. (John Samuel Fletcher ed.) (Chetham Society v. 109, 1880).
Heape, Charles, and Richard Heape. Records of the family of Heape of Heape, Staley, Saddleworth, and Rochdale, from circa 1170 to 1905. (Rochdale, 1905).