For several weeks, on Amanuensis
Monday, I posted pictures of handwritten records along with my transcription,
of the contents of the family file for Bishop found at the New York State
Library in Albany, New York. As I uncover my Bishop line back in time, one generation at a time, I hope to link up with one of those documented Bishop lines (and continue researching).
The most recent Bishop in
my family line was Minnie Caroline Bishop, my great great grandmother. Minnie was born in Newark, New Jersey about 1866
and died in Newark in 1910. She is buried with her parents and siblings at Evergreen Cemetery in Hillside, Union County, New
Jersey.
List of burials in plot owned by William R Bishop Courtesy of Evergreen Cemetery located in Hillside, Union County, New Jersey |
Minnie was one of several
children born to William Reuben Bishop and Susan Jennie Marsh.
William Reuben Bishop was
born in the 1840s in Morris Township, Morris County, New Jersey, to Reuben
Bishop and Susan Ayers. The earliest
child I have found for this couple is Mary Bishop, born about 1836. Reuben died in after the 1850 census. I do not know where he is buried. Susan remarried in 1860 in Newark to Enos Whitehead
and died in 1890.
My strategy at this time
is to uncover more records in Morris County on Bishops prior to 1860. I need to find a record of the marriage of
Reuben Bishop to Susan Ayers, probably in the mid 1830s. There are some Bishop burials at the First Presbyterian Church in Morristown that I need to explore. I have two possibly relevant wills probated in Morris County in
1823. One is for Rachel Bishop, where
she names two daughters, Elizabeth Smith and Mary Jones, and a son, William
Bishop. The other will is by Reuben
Bishop and mentions brothers, Calvin Luther Mills and Abner Bishop.
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