Bishop Family History
Bishop Name Meaning
English: from Middle English 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 English surname has probably absorbed at least some of these
continental European cognates. The word came to be applied as a
surname for a variety of reasons, among them service in the household
of a bishop, supposed resemblance in bearing or appearance to a
bishop, and selection as the ‘boy bishop’ on St. Nicholas’s Day.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Bishop
Name Distribution of Bishop Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bishop families
 2,044 - 4,085  682 - 2,043 |
 1 - 681  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bishop families
|
155 - 308 52 - 154 |
1 - 51 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Bishop census records
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Bishop Family Origin
Bishop Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Bishop Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Bishop Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Bishop census records
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Military Service by Bishop
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