Brief Life History of Margaret
When Margaret Bishop was born on 10 September 1809, in Martinsburg, Berkeley, West Virginia, United States, her father, Henry Bishop, was 41 and her mother, Mary Austin, was 44. She married John Nebeker on 7 September 1826, in Pickaway, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 4 June 1845, in Covington, Troy Township, Fountain, Indiana, United States, at the age of 35, and was buried in Fountain, Indiana, United States.
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Sources (5)
- Margaret Bishop, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
- Margaret Bishop Nebeker, "Find A Grave Index"
- Margaret Bishop in entry for Isabel M. Hebeker Crain, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
Spouse and Children
1806–1863 Male
1809–1845 Female
Children (5)
1827–1884 Female
1829–1906 Female
1831–1832 Male
1842–1931 Female
1845–1930 Male
Parents and Siblings
1768–1832 Male
1765–1831 Female
Siblings (3)
1796–1836 Male
1801–1869 Female
1809–1845 Female
World Events (7)
1812
Age 3
1816
Age 7
1819 · Panic! of 1819
Age 10
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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