Brief Life History of Noah Francis
When Noah Francis Bishop was born on 16 May 1848, in Pulaski, Kentucky, United States, his father, Jonathan Bishop, was 36 and his mother, Sally Ann Price, was 24. He married Carline Virginia Adams on 13 February 1877, in Rockcastle, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons. He lived in Magisterial District 3, Rockcastle, Kentucky, United States in 1910 and Brodhead, Rockcastle, Kentucky, United States in 1920. He died on 14 November 1932, in Rockcastle, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Brodhead, Rockcastle, Kentucky, United States.
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- F Bishop Noah in household of James R Bishop, "United States Census, 1930"
- Noah F Bishop, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Noah Bishop, "Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1967"
Spouse and Children
1848–1932 Male
1866–1913 Female
Children (7)
1893–1967 Male
1894–1962 Female
1898–1992 Female
1900–1984 Male
1903–1999 Female
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Parents and Siblings
1811–1908 Male
1824–1910 Female
Siblings (12)
1842– Male
1844–1893 Female
1846–1938 Male
1848–1932 Male
1850– Female
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World Events (8)
1863
Age 15
1868
Age 20
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Age 22
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English bissop, biscop, Old English bisc(e)op ‘bishop’, which comes via Latin from Greek episkopos ‘overseer’. The Greek word was adopted early in the Christian era as a title for an overseer of a local community of Christians, and has yielded cognates in every European language: French évêque, Italian vescovo, Spanish obispo, Russian yepiskop, German Bischof, etc. The word came to be applied as a surname for a variety of reasons, among them a supposed resemblance in bearing or appearance to a bishop, and selection as the ‘boy bishop’ on Saint Nicholas's Feast Day. In some instances the surname is from the rare Middle English (Old English) personal name Biscop ‘bishop’. As an Irish surname it is adopted for Mac Giolla Easpaig, meaning ‘servant of the bishop’ (see Gillespie ). In North America, this surname has absorbed, by assimilation and translation, at least some of continental European cognates, e.g. German Bischoff , Polish, Rusyn, Czech, and Slovak Biskup , Slovenian Škof (see Skoff ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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