Brief Life History of Isaac
When Isaac Bishop was born about 1730, in Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Isaac Bishop, was 42 and his mother, Susanah Finch, was 38. He married Sarah Weed on 13 December 1749, in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He died before 1776, in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States.
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- Isaac Bishop Jr. in the Connecticut, Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)
- Isaac Bishop in entry for Isaac Bishop, "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- Isaac Bishop in entry for Sarah Bishop, "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
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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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