Brief Life History of Mary Jane
When Mary Jane Bishop was born on 17 December 1819, in Berriew, Montgomeryshire, Wales, United Kingdom, her father, John Bishop, was 34 and her mother, Catherine Evans, was 27. She married Edward Jeremiah Price on 30 March 1852, in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Utah, United States in 1870 and Avon, Cache, Utah, United States in 1900. She died on 12 March 1904, in Paradise, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Paradise, Cache, Utah, United States.
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- Unknown, "United States Census, 1900"
- Mary Bishop, "Wales Births and Baptisms, 1541-1907"
- Utah, Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961
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1823
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
1833 · The Factory Act Restricts Child Labor
The Factory Act restricted the hours women and children could work in textile mills. No child under the age of 9 were allowed to work, and children ages 9-13 could not work longer than 9 hours per day. Children up to the age of 13 were required to receive at least two hours of schooling, six days per week.
1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
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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