Bishop

Bishop family page

Marguerite Jeune Bell, nee Bishop (1898-1963) with her husband Thomas WIlliam Bell (1899-1976, and their sons Brian and David. Marguerite was born in St Helier and the couple married in Lewisham, London in 1927

Record Search

Direct links to lists of baptisms, marriages and burials for the Bishop family can be found under Family Records opposite. If you want to search for records for a spelling variant of Bishop, or for any other family name, just click below on the first letter of the
family name you are interested in. This will open a new tab in your browser giving you a list of family names beginning with that letter,
for which there are baptism records in our database of half a million church and public registry records.

You can also select marriages or burials. Select the name you want
and when the list of records is displayed you can easily refine the search, choosing a single parish, given name(s) and/or start and end dates.

The records are displayed 30 to a page, but by selecting the yellow Wiki Table option at the top left of the page you can open a full, scrollable list. This list will either be displayed in a new tab or a pop-up window. You may have to edit the settings of your browser to allow pop-up windows for www.jerripediabmd.net. For the small number of family names for which a search generates more than 1,500 records you will have to refine your search (perhaps using start or end dates) to reduce the number of records found.

New records

From August 2020 we have started adding records from non-Anglican churches, and this process will continue as more records, held by Jersey Archive, are digitised and indexed. Our database now includes buttons enabling a search within registers of Roman Catholic, Methodist and other non-conformist churches. These records will automatically appear within the results of any search made from this page.

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Origins of surname

The original Bishop was not a church official but probably the head of a community, or overseer, from epi=over and skopein='look'. The name may also have been used for someone who worked in a Bishop's house.

Early records

The name has been present since 1654, when Jeanne, the daughter of English soldier Gilles and an unknown mother was baptised in St Ouen. He was the first of a substantial number of English soldier Bishops to marry in Jersey.

Variations

• Bishop

Family records

Church records

Tips for using these links

• Bishop baptisms in Jersey
• Bishop marriages in Jersey (groom)
• Bishop marriages in Jersey (bride)
• Bishop burials in Jersey

Family trees

Trees reviewed 2024

• Anthoine Bishop: 18th-19th centuries
• Anthony Bishop: 17th-20th centuries
• Charles Bishop: 17th-18th centuries
• John Bishop: 18th-20th centuries
• Joseph Bishop: 19th-20th centuries

Family histories

• Abraham John Bishop, Methodist pioneer

Great War service

Notes on our list, abbreviations used etc

• George John Bishop (St H), Private, Royal Defence Corps

Occupation records

• Bishop Occupation identity cards

Family wills

• Bishop family wills from 1663 to 1980 held by Jersey Archive

Burial records

• Bishop burial records 1820-1978

Family homes

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  Anne Bishop, nee Carrel, offered her late husband's house for sale, on behalf of their children, in the Gazette de l'Ile de Jersey in 1795
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  Pierre Bishop advertised the sale of his town house in Chronique de Jersey in 1830

Family album

Henry Jeune Bishop (1892-1960), with his wife Doris, nee Salmon, and their children. Henry was the son of George John Bishop (1844-1919) and Constance Rosalie Lizzie Jeune (1862-1927)

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  Nelson Bishop (1875-1910) and Mary Ann, nee Rive

Family businesses

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  Merchants Bishop, Chevalier and Bishop were regular advertisers is the Gazette de l'Ile de Jersey. This 1788 advert was for tea
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  In 1862 Bishop and Co's Percy House in Hill Street sold ladies' fashions and household linen

Tips

The church record links above will open in a new tab in your browser and generate the most up-to-date list of each set of records from our database. These lists replace earlier Family page baptism lists, which were not regularly updated. They have the added advantage that they produce a chronological listing for the family name in all parishes, so you do not have to search through A-Z indexes, parish by parish.

We have included some important spelling variants on some family pages, but it may be worth searching for records for a different spelling variant. Think of searching for variants with or without a prefix, such as Le or De. To search for further variants, or for any other family name, just click on the appropriate link below for the first letter of the family name, and a new tab will open, giving you the option to choose baptism, marriage or burial records. You will then see a list of available names for that type of record and you can select any name from that list. That will display all records of the chosen type for that family name, and you can narrow the search by adding a given name, selecting a parish or setting start and end dates in the form you will see above. You can also change the family name, or search for a partial name if you are not certain of the spelling

The records are displayed 30 to a page, but by selecting the yellow Wiki Table option at the top left of the page you can open a full, scrollable list. This list will either be displayed in a new tab or a pop-up window. You may have to edit the settings of your browser to allow pop-up windows for www.jerripediabmd.net. For the small number of family names for which a search generates more than 1,500 records you will have to refine your search (perhaps using start or end dates) to reduce the number of records found.

New records

Since August 2020 we have added several thousand new records from the registers of Roman Catholic, Methodist and other non-conformist churches. These will appear in date order within a general search of the records and are also individually searchable within the database search form

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