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Note: 1835=Born at Higher Saxifield Farm, Burnley 1841=Higher Saxifield
1851=Higher Saxifield-(Power Loom Weaver)
1857=Marriage by Certificate September Qtr Vol 8e Page 173. Witnesses James Wilkinson and Elizabeth Pollard
1860=Building Partnership with brother Thomas trading as T & E Heap of Burnley
"Briercliffe Road Workhouse-Because of the inadequacies of the existing workhouse accommodation, a new workhouse for 500 inmates was erected at a 10-acre site on Briercliffe Road in Burnley. The foundation stone was laid in 1873 and the first inmates admitted in March, 1876. The buildings, which cost about £20,000, were designed by William Waddington of Burnley and the building contractors were Messrs Heap of Burnley. The site location and layout are shown on the 1912 map below"
1861=8,Lower Bank Place
1870=A stillborn child born at Rowley Street and buried on the 26th January, 1870 also Thomas Heap born who died in 1872 aged 1 year and buried in Burnley Cemetery, Grave 11623 Page 185 Entry 11218
1871=36,Rowley Street, Habergham Eaves
1872=Rowley Street. Susan Heap aged 12 years buried at Burnley Cemetery in Grave 11645 Page 211 Entry 11904
1873=Death of Mother Ann
1876=Building partnership with brother Thomas dissolved
1877=Death of Father James Heap
1880=A Florence Wilkinson Heap from Hawk Street buried 11 February aged 2 years in Grave 11624
1881=11,Hawk Street, Burnley
1883=Death of John Binns the husband of Edmund's elder sister Betty Heap. "The Will of John Binns late of Hollin Hall, Marsden Height near Burnley in the County of Lancaster, Cattle Salesman and Farmer who died 30th September at Hollin Hall was proved at Lancaster by Edmund Heap of Lorne (Lawn!) Terrace, Burnley Contractor and Builder and Edmund Atkinson of Finsley, Briercliffe near Burnley, Farmer the Executors". Personal Estate £1,292.16s Resworn August 1884 £1,465.2s.5d. 1891=Ashridge House, Thursby Square (Next door to eldest son James Henry at No 4)
1901=1,Tennis Street, Burnley
1904=1,Thursby Square, (Hawthorne Cottage)
1911=17,Lawn Street, "Hawthorne Cottage" (plus son Peter Heap)
1918=Death of wife Hannah
1922=Death at 17,Lawn Street, "Hawthorne Cottage", Burnley aged 87 years. Buried 20th June,1922 in Burnley Cemetery in Grave 11623/4. Register Book 12 Page 121 Entry 90835. In the Grave is also buried Mary Caroline Turner of 9, Fair View, Habergham Eaves who died of measles aged 10 months. Mary Caroline Turner was the daughter of Joseph Turner the Baptist Minister.
Probate of Edmund Heap granted in London 28th November 1922 to James Henry Heap (Eldest Son) and Sarah Ann Hartley daughter. Effects £6,556.10s.7d.
Built Bishop House Mill, Burnley Lane
Member of the Burnley Board of Guardians
Director of Burnley Borough Land & Building Society
Deacon of Sion Baptist Church. Attended Haggate and Ebenezer Schools. An "ardent Liberal"
Director of the Salterforth Stone & Brick Co
They had 11 children, 4 of whom died
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