Brief Life History of George Whitfield
When George Whitfield Bishop was born on 11 June 1850, in Perth, Victoria, New Brunswick, Canada, his father, Samuel Bishop III, was 33 and his mother, Elizabeth Hallett, was 34. He married Anne Hawkins on 30 September 1874, in New Brunswick, Canada. He lived in Victoria, New Brunswick, Canada for about 10 years. He died in 1918, in Perth, Victoria, New Brunswick, Canada, at the age of 68, and was buried in Bishop Cemetery, Kilburn, Perth, Victoria, New Brunswick, Canada.
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- George Bishop, "Canada Census, 1901"
- George W Bishop, "New Brunswick Provincial Marriages 1789-1950"
- George Whitfield Bishop, "Find A Grave Index"
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1860
Oldest Grave Seen in the Memorials List
1867 · British North America Act
The British North America Act or Constitution Act of 1867 caused three British colonies, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Canada to be united as one under the name Canada. Until this point New Brunswick had been the British crown colony.
1871
British Columbia joins the confederation.
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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