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Heap: Origin, Geographical Distribution
A name adopted probably by one of the crusaders, from a place near Jerusalem, which, according to Sir John Mandeville, men clepen Mount-Joye, for it gevethe joye to pilgrymes hertes, be cause that there men seen first Jerusalem a full fair place, and a delicyous. Lower says, Some religious houses in England had their Mountjoys, a name given to eminences where the first view of the sacred edifice was to be obtained. This name is still retained in a division of the hundred of Battel, not far from the remains of the majestic pile reared by William the Conqueror. Boyer defines 'Mont-joie' as a heap of stones made by a French army, as a monument of victory.
Heap Surname Origin
Heap: Place of Origin :  Lancashire (United Kingdom) |  Cheshire (United Kingdom) |  Derbyshire (United Kingdom) |  Cumbria (United Kingdom) |  London (United Kingdom) |  Staffordshire (United Kingdom)
Heap: Online Family Trees
HEAP Gisburn, Yorkshire (England, United Kingdom) 1842 - 1842
HEAP Nelson (Lancashire, England, United Kingdom) 1941 - 1947
HEAP Burnley (United Kingdom) 1916 - 1916
HEAP Church Gresley, Derby (Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom) 1786 - 1786
HEAP Repton (Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom) 1813 - 1813
HEAP England (England, United Kingdom) 1885 - 1885
HEAP Hulme (Lancashire, England, United Kingdom) 1852 - 1852
HEAP Kendal, Westmorela (United Kingdom) 1826 - 1826
HEAP Manchester (Lancashire, England, United Kingdom) 1851 - 1851
HEAP Pendleton, Salford, Bg (Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom) 1899 - 1899

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Heap: Books that contain this surname
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HEAPArt souvenir of leading citizens and farmers' directory of Sullivan County, Indiana
Author: Sullivan Times Co. cn - Published in 1896
... Married Miss Allie, daughter of James Heap, 1881. Commenced business in Drugs and Groceries at New Lebanon, Ind., 1881, and ...		 HEAPThe county families of the United Kingdom, or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland .. (Volume ed.49, yr.1909)
Author: Walford, Edward, 1823-1897. cn - Published in 1860
... only surviving child of Capt. James Golden Heap, of Dringhouses, Yorkshire, and has, with other issue, * D'Arey Edward, a ...
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