Brief Life History of Arthur
When Arthur Bishop was born in September 1884, in Broadway, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Bishop, was 38 and his mother, Lucy Eason, was 19. He married Alice Kate Mabey on 15 October 1908, in Pilsdon, Dorset, England. He lived in Upwey, Dorset, England, United Kingdom in 1891.
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Sources (7)
- Arthur Bishop in household of John Bishop, "England and Wales Census, 1891"
- Legacy NFS Source: Arthur Bishop - Government record: Birth record or certificate: birth: September 1884; Broadway, Dorsetshire, England, United Kingdom
- Arthur Bishop, "British Newspaper Archive, Family Notices"
Spouse and Children
1884– Male
1889– Female
Parents and Siblings
1846–1925 Male
1866–1934 Female
Siblings (10)
1879– Male
1880–1881 Male
1882– Male
1884– Male
1887–1938 Female
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World Events (8)
1904 · The Entente Cordiale
Age 20
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1918
Age 34
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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