Mrs Samuel Bishop
about 1808–
Killinchy, County Down, Ireland
The Life Summary of Samuel
Mrs Samuel Bishop was born about 1808, in Killinchy, County Down, Ireland.
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World Events (3)
1839
Age 31
1839
Age 31
The Night of the BIG WIND. In Killarney and its neighborhood there was a terrible hurricane. The town sustained much damage and many houses were shattered.
1845
Age 37
1845
Age 37
The Irish Potato Famine. Many Irish emigrate to America. Irish population drops from 8 million to 6 million due to death from starvation or emigration.
1919
Age 111
1919
Age 111
Irish War of Independence against Britain ending in the Anglo Irish Treaty.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English 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 English surname has probably absorbed at least some of these continental European cognates. The word came to be applied as a surname for a variety of reasons, among them service in the household of a bishop, supposed resemblance in bearing or appearance to a bishop, and selection as the ‘boy bishop’ on St. Nicholas's Day.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Bischoff
Biskup
Episcopo
Levesque
Levick
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