Helen Bishop

Brief Life History of Helen

Helen Bishop was born on 4 July 1834, in New York, United States as the daughter of Samuel Bishop and Parmelia Storms. She had at least 3 sons and 3 daughters with John Estelle. She lived in Pleasant Valley, Dutchess, New York, United States for about 40 years. She died on 12 January 1902, at the age of 67.

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Family Time Line

John Estelle
1830–1902
Helen Bishop
1834–1902
Mary E Estelle
1857–1857
Virgenia Estelle
–1863
Charles S Estelle
William Storm Estelle
1860–1940
Gilbert Estelle
1865–1866
Mary Nellie Estelle
1874–1875

Sources (6)

  • Ellen Estell in household of John Estell, "New York State Census, 1865"
  • Helen Estell in household of John Estell, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Helen Estelle in household of John Estelle, "United States Census, 1860"

World Events (8)

1836 · Remember the Alamo

Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

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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