Elcany Bishop
1809–Male
Saint Clair Bottom, Smyth, Virginia, United States
The Life of Elcany
Elcany Bishop was born in 1809, in Saint Clair Bottom, Smyth, Virginia, United States as the son of Noah Bishop.
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Family Time Line
Noah Bishop
1779–1852
Elcany Bishop
1809–
John M Bishop
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Melissa Bishop
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Perlina Bishop
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Elacana Bishop
1831–
Parents and Siblings
1779–1852Male
siblings
(5)
1809–Male
1831–Male
John M Bishop
–Male
Melissa Bishop
–Female
Perlina Bishop
–Female
World Events (3)
1812
Age 3
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1812 · War of 1812
Age 3
Because of the outbreak of war from Napoleonic France, Britain decided to blockade the trade between the United States and the French. The US then fought this action and said it was illegal under international law. Britain supplied Native Americans who raided settlers living on the frontier and halting expansion westward. In 1814, one of the British raids stormed into Washington D.C. burning down the capital. Neither the Americans or the British wanted to continue fighting, so negotiations of peace began. After Treaty of Ghent was signed, Unaware of the treaty, British forces invaded Louisiana but were defeated in January 1815.
1812 · Monumental Church Built
Age 3
The Monumental Church was built between 1812-1814 on the sight where the Richmond Theatre fire had taken place. It is a monument to those that died in the fire.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English 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 English surname has probably absorbed at least some of these continental European cognates. The word came to be applied as a surname for a variety of reasons, among them service in the household of a bishop, supposed resemblance in bearing or appearance to a bishop, and selection as the ‘boy bishop’ on St. Nicholas's Day.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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