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Yorkshire (West Riding) Lookup Requests / Re: Birth record/baptism of William Heap
« on: Wednesday 10 February 21 17:12 GMT (UK) »There's little in the Archives that isn't available from FindMyPast/ Ancestry/ Familysearch.
Did you limit the baptisms to Ovenden alone?
Include Halifax, Thornton ( nonconformist too) before saying that you have found nothing.
Pauline
I've looked through findmypast/ancestry/familysearch/freereg for many years hoping one day I'd find a baptism, but haven't come across one.
I also can't find a matching birth.
It's possible he wasn't recorded sadly but I'd love to confirm who out of the Heap children was his real parent (perhaps I might through DNA). I feel as though 'Samuel Heap' was a fake name, but it's weird as William does name one of his own children Samuel. Perhaps his father was a Samuel, but not a Heap.