1  	Richard Bishop	b: 1790 in Kilfinnane, County Limerick, Ireland		d: October 06, 1858 in South March, Ontario		
 		+Margaret Diamond	b: 1791	m: March 11, 1810 in Kilfinnane, Limerick, Ireland	d: February 05, 1875 in South March, Ontario, Canada		
      	2  	John Samuel Bishop	b: 1812 in Limerick County, Dublin, Ireland		d: October 28, 1896 in St. Joseph Island, Ontario		
          		+Barbara Collins	b: 1821 in Edinborough, Scotland		d: February 07, 1897 in St. Joseph Island, Ontario		
      	2  	William Bishop	b: 1814 in Ireland		d: 1884		
          		+Hannah	b: 1809		d: 1883		
      	2  	Ambrose Bishop	b: 1816 in Ireland		d: July 07, 1844		
      	2  	Richard Bishop	b: 1818 in Ireland		d: 1904		
          		+Elizabeth (Betsy) Marks	b: 1828	m: 1848	d: 1885		
      	2  	Henry Bishop	b: 1823 in Belfast, Ireland		d: November 01, 1901		
          		+Elizabeth Nesbitt	b: 1812		d: November 06, 1889		
      	2  	Edward Bishop	b: 1826 in Belfast, Ireland		d: November 17, 1912 in Fitzroy Twp., Ontario		
          		+Catherine Barber	b: 1834 in Fitzroy Twp., Ontario	m: 1858	d: 1878	Father: John Barber	Mother: Mary Rivington
      	2  	Mary Bishop	b: 1827 in Fitzroy Twp., Ontario		d: January 11, 1912 in South March, Ontario		
          		+Robert Humphries Nesbitt	b: January 06, 1821 in Canada		d: January 10, 1900 in South March, Ontario, Canada	Father: Nesbitt	
      	2  	Elizabeth Bishop	b: 1831 in Fitzroy Twp., Ontario		d: 1912		
          		+Thomas Stewart	b: 1828		d: August 22, 1872 in Arnprior, Ontario, Canada		
	

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Richard Bishop
info source from Diane Moorhead
came to Canada in 1826 as paymaster for Colonel By and the building
of the Rideau Canal.
Bought land in Fitzroy township after retirement from the military.1833

The History of the Bishop Clan 

From Ireland to Canada 1790-1996
by Lloyd Bishop

 	I am writing this in the village of Waubaushene, (pop 1,000),  the 
date is 6 August 1996.  I will endeavour to cover the period from 1790 
through  1996.  Most of the material was gleaned by my father Edward 
Sidney (Sid) Bishop (1892-1964).  In his retirement years, he traveled 
across Canada, talking to friends and relatives, also visits to the Canada 
Archives in Ottawa, where he collected the information, upon which this 
history of the Bishop Clan is being recorded.

	It covers a period of some 206 years, it begins with Richard 
Bishop Sr. In Ireland.

     
Richard Bishop Sr. 1790 -1868

Richard Bishop Sr. Was born in 1790 in Kilfinnane , Ireland.  Richard was 
educated in both England and Ireland.  It is thought he joined the British 
Army in circa 1810.  He married Margaret Dymond in 1811.  It appeared 
he liked army life and would make a life time career of it.  He was an 
officer in the Royal Engineer Regiment.

	Sometime in 1826 his former Commanding Officer, Colonel 
John By, requested Richard be transferred to Canada, to help in a project 
the British Army was involved in, the building of a canal.

	He and his wife Margaret and their six children set sail for 
Canada sometime in 1826, arriving the same year, after six weeks at sea.
	
	Upon his arrival in Canada, Richard was made Chief Army 
Paymaster for the troops engaged in the construction of the Rideau Canal.  
The canal was 130 miles long, with 47 locks.  It connected Lake Ontario 
with the Ottawa River.  The building of the canal took seven years to 
complete.

	The town in which Richard and his family resided, was 
established in 1827 by Colonel By and was named Bytown.  The name 
was later changed to Ottawa in 1854.  The name Ottawa was taken from 
the Ottawa Indian tribe, who occupied the surrounding area.  As a point of 
interest. Thomas Mckay and John Redpath of Montreal , who were the 
civilian contractors, were at the completion of the canal, paid in Mexican 
silver dollars, which they carted back to Montreal with a team of horses 
and wagon.		


	In 1833 Richard obtained his discharge from the army, after 23 
years of service.  He and his wife now had eight children.  It is reported 
that he was the first teacher in Nepean Township, which is adjacent to the 
city of Ottawa.

	Richard died October 6, 1868, at the age of 78 years.  His wife 
Margaret died in 1875 at the age of 84 years.  Both are buried in the 
Anglican Cemetery in South March, Ontario.

	Richard and Margaret’s eight children were: John 1812-1896, 
William 1814-1912, Ambrose 1816-1912, Richard 1818-1904, Henry 1823-
1904, Edward 1826-1912, Mary 1827-1912 and Elizabeth 1831-1912.

	Our next generation starts with Edward Bishop their son.

Edward Bishop 1826-1912

	Edward Bishop was born in Belfast, Ireland in 1826, the year in 
which his father and family immigrated to Canada.  He once made the 
statement: “I was born in Ireland, a sucker across the sea, and weaned in 
Canada.”

	Edward grew up in Bytown (now Ottawa) and was tutored by his 
father, as there were few schools and fewer school teachers in this section 
of the world.  His father Richard being well educated, was in the position 
to instruct and develop his families education.  His parents tried to 
persuade him to advance his education in music and pursue a career in 
music.  It appeared he had a talent for music.  But this type of life did not 
appeal to him.

	At this date in time there was very little employment in Ottawa, 
and most of the young men were taking to the lumber camps.  This type 
of life appealed to Edward and he never  returned to live in Ottawa.  He 
loved the open country and rugged life the lumber camps and associated 
occupations it provided.  He 
worked for a time driving the large rafts of logs down the Ottawa River 
and on to Quebec, where the logs were loaded onto great scows and 
hauled across the Atlantic Ocean to Britain, some of the logs were turned 
into timber to build wooden ships of the day.

	In 1858 he married Catherine Barber, a native of Fitzroy 
Township.  He was 32 years old and she was 24.  They bought land near 
Kinburn, Ont., to turn into a farm.  Most of the land in those days was 
forest.  He and his neighbours worked together to clear their land during 
the summer months and went to lumber camps during the winter.

	He procured a good team of horses which he used to portage 
goods and supplies from the end of the railway at Sand point to camps on 
the Bonnechere and Opeongo Rivers.  After his farm was paid off, he 
remained home and farmed also raising a family.

	His wife Catherine died on May 16, 1878, during childbirth. She 
was only 45 years old.  Edward died on November 17, 1912, he was 86.  
They are both interred in the Diamond United Church Cemetery near 
Kinburn, Ontario.

	Edward and Catherine had nine children: Richard John 1859-
1923; Mary Elizabeth 1860-1891; Edward Henry 1863-1929; Margaret 
1865-1937; William Fred 1867-1946; George Albert 1870-1932; Evelyn 
1873-1904; Catherine Louise 1876-1945; and Robert Ernest 1878-1959.

	We move to our next generation to Richard John Bishop, their 
first born child.


Richard John Bishop  1859-1923

	Richard John Bishop, was born in a farm house , between 
Kinburn and Marathon Village.  He had quite a distance to walk to school.  
In those days there were no scribblers to write on, so each student used a 
small slate and chalk.  They also shared a double desk and text books.  
We have to remember these were pioneers and they had very little money 
to spare.  His first year of school was in 1865 or 66.  They had little 
homework, and there was no electricity and of course no radio or 
television.  They had not as yet been invented.  A lot of school time was 
lost because the roads were not snow plowed, and of course no school 
buses, because the car was not invented at this time.  Also many days 
were lost in the fall , because as soon as a boy was old enough to work  he 
had to help with the harvest.  This released the mother from working in 
the fields and gave her more time to raise her family.  Our pioneer women 
had a heavy load to carry in past years.  Bearing children, doing a man’s 
work on the farm and raising the children and as a rule a large family.  As 
we know, many young women gave their lives during child birth.

	
	Richard helped his father clear the farm of forest, also planting 
and harvesting the crops.  As the family grew to nine children, the farm 
was too small and his father bought a large farm near Galetta, and later 
bought a 200 acre farm on the 11th concession of Fitzroy Township, 
known at that time as Lot 15.

	On January 3,1889, he married Susanna Weatherly, the daughter 
of Capt. Thomas Weatherly of Arnprior, Ont. Richard was 30 years old 
and Susie was 25 years of age.

	They worked together on the farm, and raised three children.  
Unfortunately Susanna contracted measles and died on August 8 1903, at 
the age of 39 years.  It appears that in those days there was no known 
treatment for measles and it was a killer disease to many thousands of 
humans.

	He remained a widower for four years and in 1907 he married 
Minnie Gilchrist a spinster.  Due to his failing health, Richard retired in 
1919 .  Sold his farm and moved to Westboro, now Ottawa. He was 60 
years old.

	Richard lived in retirement for only four years and died on 
March 12, 1923, which was less than two years after his first grandson, 
Lloyd Sidney was born.  He and his wife are buried at Epworth United 
Cemetery, which lies between Fitzroy and Torbolton, Ont.  Richard was 
Superintendent of the Epworth United Church they both attended most of 
their lives.

	Richard and Susanna had four children: Wilfred Roland 1891-
1892; Edward Sidney 1892-1964; Alda Muriel 1894-1951; Vera Catherine 
Margaret 1896-1951.

	Our next generation is Edward Sidney Bishop, their second son.


Edward Sidney Bishop 1892-1964

	Edward Sidney (Sid) Bishop was born in Kinburn, Ont. On 
August 26, 1892.  The second son of Richard and Susanna.

	Sidney also attended a small country school.  He told me that in 
his first year of school he used a slate and chalk as a scribbler.  Money for 
education was still in short supply among these pioneers.  He completed 
elementary school, then worked full time with his father on the farm, 
which was located on the 11th concession of Fitzroy Township.  He left 
the farm in 1919 when his father retired and moved with his family to 
Westboro.

	In 1919 Sidney bought a grocery store in Westboro.  A year later 
on September 1, 1920 he married Annie Pearl Milks.  He was 28 and she 
was 23 years old.

	Pearl was born in Braeside , Ont., on September 7, 1897.  At a 
young age her mother died in the world flu epidemic.  She moved with 
her family to Westboro, where she met Sidney.  After completing school, 
she worked in the office of J. R. Booth in Ottawa.

	Sidney sold his store in 1923 and bought a 100 acre farm near 
North Gower.  He farmed until 1927, then moved to Syracuse, New York.  
In Syracuse he managed a grocery store called “Community Store”.  It 
was an American chain store company.

	He and his wife had two children and decided to move back to 
Canada, because he was being forced to become an American citizen, and 
he did not want to make the change.   At that point in time if you became 
an American citizen you had to forfeit your Canadian citizenship, and this 
he was unwilling to do.  He was a Canadian strong and true.

	He bought a five acre market gardening lot on the outskirts of 
Barrie, Ont.  After about a year they rented the property out and moved.  
Because he loved the store business he went to work for the Canadian 
grocery chain “Stop and Shop”. Because he was good at selling and loved 
to talk to people, he was chosen to go to different cities and build up 
stores where sales had dropped off.  He worked about a year in Toronto, 
Brockville, two stores in Montreal and Ottawa.  Unfortunately he suffered 
a nervous breakdown and in 1936 returned to Barrie and went full time 
into market and commercial gardening.  He sold his vegetables and fruit to 
a processing plant called Smarts in Collingwood and went selling house to 
house in Barrie and at the Barrie Farmers Market in downtown Barrie.

	In the winter of 1935 he was offered a 50 acre farming Oro 
township, where he continued to grow vegetables and a large acreage of 
potatoes, carrots and turnips.  This was during the Great Depression.  
These years were the lowest and hardest times of his life. Farm prices 
were very low, a pound bag of potatoes from the field was only one 
dollar.  Lard was a substitute for butter and meat was rarely seen on the 
table,  The winter menu was bread with lard and potatoes or turnip.  You 
would go to bed and curl up with your knees drawn to your chest, while 
your stomach kept you awake growling from hunger.  There were no jobs, 
no money and not much food, with very little hope.  This I believe was 
the most difficult time Canada ever experienced.  I know I was there.  He 
now had two more daughters to provide for.

	During the war, in 1940, he rented a larger 250 acre farm near 
Holley, which is five miles west of Barrie, and went into general farming 
and raising beef cattle.

	Then in 1944 he rented a small grocery store in Creemore, after a 
year he bought a large vacant store on a corner in the center of Creemore, 
where he opened the first self serve grocery store in Creemore, along with 
a restaurant.  In later years he changed the restaurant to a women’s 
clothing store, still later he changed his grocery store to an IGA.

	In 1957 Sidney and Pearl had acquired enough money to retire.  
He bought a small general store with a coffee bar and one gas pump, in a 
hamlet called Eardley in Quebec.  It lay between the Ottawa River and a 
half mile west of the Laurentian Mountains.  As mentioned before he 
enjoyed people and could talk till his heart content,  It was a perfect 
situation in which to retire, and it kept his coffee bar busy.

	Sidney’s life expired in his home in Eardley.  He had just 
finished his supper, drank a second cup of tea, put his teacup back on the 
saucer, laid his head on the table and died of a heart attack.  The date was 
December 30,1964.  He was 72 years of age.  His wife Pearl lived for 
another 28 years, and she died in a Seniors Home in Elmvale, Ont. 
December 3, 1992 at the age of 95 years.  They are both buried in the 
Diamond Cemetery , Fitzroy Township.

	Sid and Pearl had four children: Lloyd Sidney 1921-      ; Velma 
Storey 1922-      ; one boy and one girl still born; Pearl Bernice 1932-1982 
and Vera Sylvia 1937-      .

	We now go on to their only son Lloyd Sidney, his endeavors and 
realizations through most of the 20th century.


Lloyd Sidney Bishop 1921-

	Lloyd Sidney Bishop, the first and only son of Sidney and Pearl 
was born on Saturday, August 28, 1921 at the 12 noon hour, in the Village 
of Westboro (now Ottawa) , but the birth registration reads Nepean 
Township.  I was delivered by a Doctor Klutz.

	In my early life I lived in Ontario, New York State and Quebec, 
ending my schooling in Barrie.  I also lived on three different farms, one in 
North Gower, Oro township and at Holley in the Barrie area.

	On January 5, 1942 I joined the Royal Canadian Air Force, 
where I commenced flying instruction, but after three months, they 
discovered I had what is called spasmodic red/green colour blindness, and 
of course was grounded.  At which time I remustered to the Military 
Mechanical Transportation section, which was called the MMMT as a 
driver/mechanic.  My Royal Canadian Air Force number was R148584.

	I was posted overseas and had my 21st birthday in mid Atlantic, 
on a ship called the Cameronia, in a large convoy of approximately 125 
troop ships, escorted by a fleet of Canadian and American navy ships.  
Our ship was in the centre of the convoy.  One morning we awoke to find 
we were alone.  You couldn’t see a ship in sight, Nothing but open sea.  
We were later told by the captain that we had lost an engine and it had to 
be repaired, but we would catch up to the convoy some time later on.  The 
reason we were left behind was because of submarines in the area, and 
they couldn’t chance the convoy being found.  The following morning we 
awoke and found we were back in the middle of the convoy.  Because of 
the zigzag pattern the convoy followed it took us 10 days to cross the 
Atlantic, from Halifax to Greenock, Scotland.

	During my tour of duty overseas, I was stationed in 
Bournemouth, Digby (fighter squadrons), London RCAF Headquarters 
and RCAF #5 District Headquarters, in Edinburgh, Scotland.  My duties 
were to drive the Air  Vice Marshall, Group Captains, Air Commodores 
and Wing Commanders all over England, Wales, Scotland and Northern 
Ireland.  I think I was one of the lucky ones.  I enjoyed driving and my job 
during my 3 ½ years overseas.

	Sometime in mid 1943, I attended an Air Force party. There I 
spotted a young dark haired Scottish lass.  She was wearing a lovely form 
fitting green dress.  Unbeknown to me, I knew her mother, who 
introduced me to her daughter June.  I think I began to fall for June there 
and then.

	June was nursing in a military hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland.  
June was born at 6:10 pm on June 4 , 1924 in Edinburgh, Scotland.  At 11 
months old her mother and father Jean and William Robertson emigrated 
to Toronto, Canada.  In 1929 June and her parents moved to the United 
States.  They lived in Indianapolis, Cleveland, Milwaukee and Boston.  
She and her mother crossed the Atlantic ocean 11 times by steamship to 
vacation in Scotland.  June and her mother were on such a trip to 
Edinburgh in 1939 when war broke out.  Her father soon arrived in 
Edinburgh from the States to help the war effort.  He was a veteran of 
WW1.  June finished her education in Edinburgh.  She attended the 
George Watson’s Ladies College, then joined the British Red Cross and 
commenced her nursing training.

	At 11 am November 1 1945 June and I were married in 
Edinburgh, Scotland in a Registrars office.  We honeymooned in Ayton, 
Scotland, London and Torquay England.  I left on November 16th, being 
repatriated back home to Canada, as the war with Germany had finished.  
WE WON.

	Upon returning home June and I worked with my father and 
mother in the grocery store and restaurant.  In February 1947, I joined the 
Ontario Provincial Police and attended OPP College in Toronto.  I was 
stationed at #7 District Headquarters in Barrie, then my own detachment 
at Waubaushene.  On December 25 1951 I joined Ontario Hydro Security 
Division in Toronto.  I started at the very bottom and worked my way up 
to the top position at Toronto Head Office.  June and our family lived 
twice in Niagara Falls, Cameron Falls, Burlington and ending in Toronto 
at the New Hydro Head Office.  I was given the task of establishing a 
completely new security system, purely electronic and computer, cameras 
and motion detectors.  This was new to me and took a lot of study.  Then 
teach the staff the ways and means of operation.  It was fun though.  
When I left I had a staff of 24 male and female officers, and a 
secretary/computer operator.

	We retired on October 31, 1981, and moved from Toronto to our 
home in Waubaushene.  June who worked for Manpower, Canadian 
Government in Toronto, also retired on pension.  I had 30 years of service 
with Ontario Hydro.  I have to admit I loved my work, the staff and the 
travelling.

	On November 1 1995 June and I celebrated with our whole 
family our 50th wedding anniversary.  They gave us a wonderful party and 
gifts.  We all had a great time.

	 June and Lloyd had four children: Virginia (Jenny) June born in 
Midland at 7:03 am November 1948; Glenn Lloyd born in Midland at 
10:10 pm on May 25 1951; Randall (Randy) Thomas born in Nipigon at 
11:05 pm on July 24 1955, and Pamela (Pam) Jean born in Nipigon at 5:55 
pm on March 5 1952.

	 This ends five generations of the Bishop family, from 1790 
through 1996.


Epilogue

	I feel this is as far as I can go with this written history of the 
Bishop family. At this point in time, which is the later part of 1996, I have 
reached the age if 75 years , and realize time is running out for me and my 
generation.  Along with this I have accumulated a fairly comprehensive 
pictorial history of the members of the family.  I have enjoyed the 
research and the writing of our ancestral past.

	We have many generations to come, at present the nest 
generation, our children; Virginia 1948; Glenn 1951; Randy 1955 and Pam 
1957. In the next  generation we have four grandchildren: Shawn 1977; 
Laurie 1981; Jason 1981; and Braden 1983.

	For the continuation of the history, I am handing this over to 
Pam Bishop, the youngest member of her generation.  She will be assisted 
by Virginia.  It will be passed on to whichever person they feel will truly 
carry on with the historical events of the Bishop family.

	So endeth this chapter.