Hester Bishop

Brief Life History of Hester

When Hester Bishop was born about 1733, in Upton St Leonards, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Bishop JR, was 39 and her mother, Elizabeth Frankis, was 35.

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Family Time Line

John Bishop JR
1695–1777
Elizabeth Frankis
1699–1767
John Bishop
1721–1750
William Bishop
1723–
Hester Bishop
1733–
Anne Bishop
1725–
William Bishop
1728–1800
Elizabeth Bishop
1731–
Sarah Bishop
1734–1769
Elizabeth Bishop
1735–1736
Richard Bishop
1736–
Hester Bishop
1739–
Elizabeth Bishop
1741–1775
Hannah Bishop
1743–1782
Mary Bishop
1744–1783
John Bishop
1747–1807
Joseph Bishop
1747–1771
Margaret Bishop
1753–

Sources (1)

  • Hester Bishop, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"

World Events (4)

1801 · The Act of Union

The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.

1815

The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.

1830

Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).

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 ).

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