When Alexander D. Bishop was born on 3 November 1817, in Fleming, Kentucky, United States, his father, George D Bishop, was 41 and his mother, Nancy Moore, was 44. He married Ary Thelkeld Ficklin about 1840, in Fleming, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 8 daughters. He lived in Nicholas, Kentucky, United States in 1850 and Hamilton, Ohio, United States in 1860. He died on 13 November 1868, in Covington, Kenton, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 51, and was buried in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United States.
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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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