Origin and History of the Name of Bishop, with Biograraphies of All the Most Noted Persons of that Name: And an Account of the Origin of Surnames and Forenames, Together with Over Five Hundred Christian Names of Men and Women and Their Significance. The Crescent Family Record |
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1st Child 2nd Child 3rd Child 4th Child 6th Child America ancestors arms baptism became BISHOP Bland County born April born Dec born Jan born Sept business and public Centerburg century Charles Christian Names Church cognomen colony Conn Connecticut County Date of marriage Dauphin County Died diminutive Dodge County educated Edward Ellijay engaged England English eoghan family names father father's full name Feminine filled several positions forefathers given forenames France full maiden name Gift graduated Henry hereditary names John king Latin lawyer Lord Married Mass Massachusetts means Medal of Honor Medical College merchant mother's full maiden NAME OF BISHOP native noble Norman Norman Conquest Occupation offices Ohio origin PATRONYMIC positions of trust postmaster president prominently identified proper names public affairs public official public schools railroad received record soldier successful surnames Teutonic tion traits of character trust and honor Ulster County WILLIAM
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Page 21 - But strew his ashes to the wind Whose sword or voice has served mankind ! And is he dead, whose glorious mind Lifts thine on high ? To live in hearts we leave behind Is not to die.
Page 91 - Alice, my wife, and Old John, my son, to occupy my farm together, till Old John marries; Young John, my son, shall have Brenlay's land plowed and sowed at Old John's cost.
Page 95 - At that period was to distinguish persons and property, and record descent and alliance, and no modern invention has yet been found to supersede it . For this reason alone, as we have remarked elsewhere, of all ancient usages it is one of the least likely to become obsolete. Hundreds of persons may be entitled to the same initials, may possess precisely the same name ; but only the members of a particular family can lawfully bear certain armorial ensigns, and the various branches of that family have...
Page 96 - Arms of Dominion or Sovereignty are properly the arms of the kings or sovereigns of the territories they govern, which are also regarded as the arms of the State. Thus the Lions of England and the Russian Eagle are the arms of the Kings of England and the Emperors of Russia, and cannot be properly altered bv a change of dynasty.
Page 76 - America in ancient times people 4me\y nothing. The ships in olden times were small and feeble; and navigators seldom dared to stretch forth upon the boundless sea. Even the mariner's compass, that mysterious but steadfast friend of the sailor was not used by the Europeans until 1250. THE FIRST SETTLEMENTS. It was in the year 1607 that the first emigrants, to successfully form a permanent colony, landed in Virginia. For twelve years after its settlement it languished under the government of Sir Thomas...
Page 78 - A perpetual interest attaches to this first elective body that ever assembled in the western world, representing the people of Virginia, and making laws for their government, more than a year before the Mayflower, with the pilgrims, left the harbor of Southampton, and while Virginia was still the only British colony on the continent of America.
Page 83 - Gawdie, late Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, whose name of baptism was Thomas, and his name of confirmation Francis, and that name of Francis, by the advice of all the Judges, in anno 36, Henry VIII, he did bear, and after used in all his purchases and grants.
Page 51 - In the first ages of the world a single name was sufficient for each individual; and that name was generally invented for the person, in allusion to the circumstances attending his birth, or to some personal quality he possessed, or which his parents fondly hoped he might in future possess.
Page 52 - Though the majority of our ancient family names are territorial, we have many large classes of exceptions, and the origin of most of them is not at all doubtful. Surnames can scarcely be said to have been permanently settled before the era of the Reformation. The keeping of parish registers was probably more instrumental than anything else in settling them; for if a person were entered under one name at baptism, it is not likely he would be married under another and buried under a third ; in some...
Page 83 - If a man be baptized by the name of Thomas, and after, at his confirmation by the Bishop, he is named John, he may purchase by the name of his confirmation. And this was the case of. Sir Francis...