Mary Bishop

FemaleOctober 1779–

Brief Life History of Mary

When Mary Bishop was born in October 1779, in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Stephen Bishop, was 43 and her mother, Sarah Nancy Larton Lasten, was 41. She married Thomas Griffiths on 23 May 1798.

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Family Time Line

Thomas Griffiths
1775–
Mary Bishop
1779–
Marriage: 23 May 1798

Sources (1)

  • Mary Bishop, "England Marriages, 1538–1973"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    23 May 1798
  • Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (8)

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    World Events (8)

    1801 · The Act of Union

    Age 22

    The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.

    1808 · The British West Africa Squadron

    Age 29

    The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.

    1815

    Age 36

    The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.

    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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