Enos Bishop

Brief Life History of Enos

When Enos Bishop was born on 7 August 1755, in Lyme, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Abraham Bishop Sr, was 39 and his mother, Sarah Gladding, was 31.

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Family Time Line

Abraham Bishop Sr
1715–1754
Sarah Gladding
1724–1775
Abraham Bishop Jr
1747–1783
Hannah Bishop
1760–
Bishop
1749–
Hannah Bishop
1749–
Isaac Bishop
1751–1824
Mary Bishop
1753–1847
Enos Bishop
1755–

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  • Enos Bishop, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"

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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