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1871 England, Wales & Scotland Census
Abbey Hey Road, Droylsden, Ashton under Lyne, Lancashire, England
James Heap Head - Male 42 1829 Cotton winder L Droylsden, Lancashire, England
Sarah Heap Wife - Female 37 1834 Hat body maker Gorton, Lancashire, England
Elizabeth E Heap Daughter - Female 17 1854 - Openshaw, Lancashire, England
James Heap Son - Male 12 1859 Hat trimmer Openshaw, Lancashire, England
Thomas K Heap Son - Male 10 1861 Assistant in iron works Tydsley, Lancashire, England
Ann Heap Daughter - Female 8 1863 Assistant in iron works Tydsley, Lancashire, England
Mary Jane Heap Daughter - Female 5 1866 - Tydsley, Lancashire, England
Sarah Heap Daughter - Female 3 1868 - Droylsden, Lancashire, England
Samuel Heap Son - Male 0 1871 - Droylsden, Lancashire, England

Thank you so much Erika. :-D :-D

The only thing I have just noticed is that according to Elizabeth Ellen's marriage (my first post) certificate in 1913 her father Thomas Heap was deceased.
We have him as dying in 1931??

Glad you picked up on that…………. ;-) ;-)

He was alive and well on 1921 census, as per my post

I am guessing as her mother died in 1899 when she was ten and her father remarried in 1901 she perhaps never saw him again. She doesn't appear with him again on censuses so advised he was deceased. I guess that is what you thought also?? :-D

or not?? :-S

That's what I would assume.

A similar thing happened in my family.

My grandmother, with her mother and brother, moved from England to Scotland about 1902.
Her brother's 1926 death cert said that their father was deceased.
(His brother-in-law - my grandfather - was the informant.)
I spent a long time looking in vain for their father's death between c1902 and 1926.

It was only when the 1939 Register became available that I found him alive and well.
He didn't actually die until 1943.

He and his wife had separated when my great-uncle was about 10.
Apparently my grandfather (the informant) had never heard him mentioned, and had assumed he had died.

Thank you ArgyllGran. That is reassuring :-)