Brief Life History of Charles Wilkie
When Charles Wilkie Bishop was born on 29 February 1928, in Buncombe, North Carolina, United States, his father, Charles Jefferson Bishop, was 45 and his mother, Bessie Venetta Connor, was 39. He lived in Fairview, Buncombe, North Carolina, United States in 1930 and Fairview Township, Buncombe, North Carolina, United States in 1940. He died on 24 March 1963, at the age of 35.
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- Wilkie C Bishop in household of Charles J Bishop, "United States Census, 1940"
- Charles Wilkie Bishop, "North Carolina Birth Index, 1800-2000"
- Charles Wilkie Bishop, "South Carolina Deaths, 1915-1965"
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World Events (8)
1929
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
1931
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
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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