Brief Life History of Edgar Miles
When Edgar Miles Bishop was born on 30 September 1870, in Elgin, Albert, New Brunswick, Canada, his father, Jehiel " Hiel" Harold Bishop, was 33 and his mother, Damietta Rosanna Geldart, was 23. He married Maude Ann Steeves on 12 April 1896, in West River, Harvey, Albert, New Brunswick, Canada. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Albert, New Brunswick, Canada in 1901 and Kings, New Brunswick, Canada in 1911. He died on 19 January 1947, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, at the age of 76, and was buried in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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- Edgar Bishop, "Canada Census, 1901"
- Edgar Bishop, "Canada, New Brunswick County Register of Births, 1801-1920"
- Edgar M Bishop, "New Brunswick Provincial Marriages 1789-1950"
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1871
British Columbia joins the confederation.
1880 · Legislature in Fredericton Destoryed by Fire
On February 25, 1880, the legislature building in Frederiction was destroyed by fire. The builiding was completely made of wood meaning that there was nothing left of it. The chair that the speaker used and a marble top table were all that remained.
1901 · Hartland Covered Bridge
July 4, 1901, the Hartland covered bridge was finished. It spans across the Saint John River, making it the longest covered bridge. Until it was built, the only way across the river was by ferry.
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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