Roy Calvin Bishop

Male2 April 1917–24 July 1951

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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Family Time Line

Roy Calvin Bishop
1917–1951
Evelyn Hilton
1917–1973
Marriage: 1 January 1938
Roy Cody Bishop
1939–2002
Bonnie Jean Bishop
1940–2020

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

  • Marriage
    1 January 1938Minden, Douglas, Nevada, United States
  • Children (2)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (6)

    +1 More Child

    World Events (8)

    1918 · Attempting to Stop the War

    Age 1

    To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.

    1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment

    Age 2

    The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.

    1927

    Age 10

    Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

    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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