Jonathan Bishop

19 July 1811–1908 (Age 96)
United States

The Life Summary of Jonathan

When Jonathan Bishop was born on 19 July 1811, in United States, his father, Thomas Bishop, was 29 and his mother, Marguerite Gastineau, was 28. He married Sally Ann Price on 18 October 1841, in Pulaski, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Pulaski, Pulaski, Kentucky, United States in 1850 and District 1, Spencer, Kentucky, United States in 1860. He died in 1908, in Rockcastle, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 97, and was buried in Brodhead, Rockcastle, Kentucky, United States.

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Family Time Line

Jonathan Bishop
1811–1908
Sally Ann Price
1824–1910
Marriage: 18 October 1841
Zachariah Bishop
1842–
Nancy Jane Bishop
1844–1893
William Daniel Bishop
1846–1938
Noah Francis Bishop
1848–1932
Elizabeth A. Bishop
1850–
John Crane Bishop
1852–1910
James A. Bishop
1854–1888
Mary Frances Bishop
1857–1927
Rhoda Ann Bishop
1858–1860
Thomas Lewis Bishop
1859–
Maria M Bishop
1861–1893
Jonathan Bishop
1865–

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    18 October 1841Pulaski, Kentucky, United States
    • Children

    (12)

    +7 More Children

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (10)

    +5 More Children

    World Events (8)

    1812
    Age 1
    War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
    1828
    Age 17
    Historical Boundaries 1828: Pulaski, Kentucky, United States Historical Names: 1800: Higgins Station 1828: Adams' Mill 1879: Pulaski Station 1880: Pulaski
    1846
    Age 35
    U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

    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.

    Possible Related Names

    Bischoff
    Bispo
    Gillespie
    Episcopo
    Dean

    Sources (20)

    • Jonathan Bishop, "United States Census, 1870"
    • Jonathan Bishop, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
    • Johnathan Bishop in entry for Mary Francis Robbins, "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976"

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