Ten
Generations of Bishop in England,
Bishop Families in America, Vol 10, by Ira Elmore
Bishop
Ten Generations of Bishop: in EnglandFrom which without doubt some of the progenitors of those families we callBishop Families in America descended and so Pedigree of Bisshop or (Bishop)Formerly of Tillington Court, Co., Hereford; Holway and In Park, Co., Dorset; Warnborough, Co., Hants & cCompiled from the visitations of Dorset in 1574, and 1623; Visitation ofLondon in 1633, and Visitation of Hants in 1686; Inquisitions Post Mortem;Parish Registers, Wills, Deaths, Monumental Inscriptions, Family Papers etc.
Arms: Argent ona bend, cotised gules, three bezants.Crest: An eagles head, erased, party perfess, or, and gules, beaked of the last.Motto: Pro Deo et Ecclesia
Generation 3
John Bysshop, Esq. of Taunton, also Pounderford, Co.,Somerset A.D. 1444, died at Farnham, Co., Surrey, in 1470,
Grandsonof John Bysshop, Esq (living in 1400) by Agnes his wife, sole hieressof Robert Burguillion; neice and heir of Alice wife of ----
Generation 4
John Bysshop, Esq, Provost of Downton, Co., Wiltshire, in 1487, m. Isabella,died May 29, 1497, buried at Hook Norton, Co., Oxon.
Generation 5
John Bysshop of Burford, Co., Oxom, and of Tillington Court, Co., Herford, Esq.m.
Margaret dau. and one of the cohiers of Simon Milborne, of Tillington, Co.,Herford and Westbury, Co., Gloucester, Esq. (Grandson of Sir John Milborn Kent,Kinsman and hier of Sir John de Eynesford, Kent, Lord of Tillington etc.)died ante 1522