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HEAPS Family History

This unusual name is of Anglo-Saxon origin; it is found chiefly in Lancashire and the northern counties of England, and may be either a locational or a topographical surname. If the former, the name derives from the place called Heap (Bridge), now a locality in Heywood in Greater Manchester. The placename was recorded as "Hep" in 1226, and as "Hepe" in 1278, and is derived from the Olde English pre 7th Century "heap", mound, heap, hill. Locational surnames were acquired particularly as a means of identification y those who left their birthplace to settle elsewhere.