Brief Life History of Roy Calvin
When Roy Calvin Bishop was born on 2 April 1917, in Placer, California, United States, his father, William Roy Bishop, was 33 and his mother, Maud Calvin, was 25. He married Evelyn Hilton on 1 January 1938, in Minden, Douglas, Nevada, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Placerville Judicial Township, El Dorado, California, United States in 1940. He died on 24 July 1951, in Placerville, El Dorado, California, United States, at the age of 34, and was buried in El Dorado, El Dorado, California, United States.
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Sources (13)
- Roy Bishop in household of William R Bishop, "United States Census, 1930"
- Roy Calvin Bishop, "California, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
- Roy Bishop, "United States Social Security Death Index"
Spouse and Children
1917–1951 Male
1917–1973 Female
Children (2)
1939–2002 Male
1940–2020 Female
Parents and Siblings
1883–1965 Male
1891–1972 Female
Siblings (6)
1911–2004 Female
1913–1994 Male
1917–1951 Male
1921–2000 Female
1926–1999 Female
+1 More Child
World Events (8)
1918 · Attempting to Stop the War
Age 1
1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment
Age 2
1927
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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