Madeline Emma Bishop

Female1922–9 June 1922

Brief Life History of Madeline Emma

When Madeline Emma Bishop was born in 1922, her father, Leander Clark Bishop, was 32 and her mother, Madeline Emma Harvie, was 28. She died on 9 June 1922, in Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 0.

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Family Time Line

Leander Clark Bishop
1890–1959
Madeline Emma Harvie
1894–1974
Madeline Emma Bishop
1922–1922

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  • Madeline Emma Bishop, "Nova Scotia Deaths, 1890-1955"

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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 ).

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