Brief Life History of Albert Roy
When Albert Roy Bishop was born on 26 May 1906, in Blue Rapids, Marshall, Kansas, United States, his father, Albertus Ray Bishop, was 26 and his mother, Rachel Irene Badger, was 27. He married Mabel Fay Thompson on 15 March 1928, in Los Angeles, California, United States. He lived in Douglas, Kansas, United States in 1935 and San Antonio Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940. He died on 23 August 1979, in Orange, California, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Westminster, Orange, California, United States.
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- Albert R Bishop, "United States Census, 1940"
- Albert Roy Bishop, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
- Albert R Bishop, "California, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
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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 ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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