Mayor of West Ham, 1900 - 01. From : "Born Worle, nr Weston-super-Mare, Somerset 1838, died West Ham May 16, 1917. In 1881, Plasterer employing 10 men, living at 1 Victoria Villas, Essex St, Forest Gate....In 1901 he and his wife were living at 76 Cranmer Road, an agreeable street in Forest Gate off Capel Road on his death. Probate granted to his wife, Selina Bishop, Walter Bishop, RN and Mabel House, wife of George Edward House. [his daughter] Effects £7878 6s 2d. His wife died 10 years later aged 87, with no probate."
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Abednego Bishop was born in 1838 in Worle, Somerset, a son of John Bishop (b. circa 1798) and Ann Bishop née Petheram (b. circa 1806). His birth was registered in the 2nd quarter of 1838 in the Axbridge Registration District, Somerset. On 17 June 1838 he was baptised in St Martin's Church, Worle, where in the baptismal register it confirms his family were living in Worle and that his father was a labourer.
In the 1841 census he was shown as aged 3 years and living in Weston-super-Mare with his parents and six siblings: Hannah Bishop, aged 13 years; Henry Bishop, aged 11 years and an agricultural labourer; Shadrack Bishop, aged 9 years and also an agricultural labourer; Meshack Bishop, aged 7 years; Elizabeth Bishop, aged 5 years and Arthur Bishop, aged 10 months.
When the 1851 census was taken he was shown as aged 13 years and living in a cottage behind the High Street, Weston-super-Mare, with his parents and four siblings: Arthur Bishop, aged 10 year; Edward Bishop, aged 7 years; James Bishop, aged 4 years and Eliza Bishop, aged 1 year. His father was described as a lime burner and his mother as a washerwoman.
He was shown in the 1861 census as aged 22 years and a plasterer, lodging at 3 Junction Place, Paddington, Middlesex (now Greater London), the home of a widow, Sarah Thomas.
On 19 May 1861 he married Selina Camis (1839-1927) in St John's Church, Paddington, where in the marriage register he is shown as of full age, a bachelor and a plaster, living in Junction Place, Paddington, the son of John Bishop, a labourer, whilst his wife is described as of full age and a spinster, who was also residing at Junction Place, the daughter of James Camis, a glass dealer.
When the 1871 census was undertaken he was shown as aged 32 years and a plasterer living at 30 Rollo Street, Battersea, Surrey (now Greater London), with his wife and their three children: Hannah Elizabeth Bishop, aged 9 years; George Bishop, aged 2 years and Herbert A. Bishop, aged 10 months.
He was described in the 1881 census as aged 42 years and a plasterer employing 10 men, residing at 1 Victoria Villas, Essex Street, Forest Gate, West Ham, Essex (now Greater London), with his wife, seven children: Hannah Elizabeth Bishop, aged 19 years - a domestic servant; George Bishop, aged 12 years - a scholar; Herbert A. Bishop, aged 10 years - a scholar; Ada Selina Bishop, aged 7 years - a scholar; Thomas Bishop, aged 5 years - a scholar; Ethel Minnie Bishop, aged 3 years - a scholar and Mabel Bishop, aged 1 year, together with his niece Alice M. Bishop, aged 10 years - a scholar.
He is shown as a 52-year-old retired plasterer in the 1891 census living at 23 Essex Street, Forest Gate, with his wife and seven of their children: Hannah Elizabeth Bishop, aged 29 years, who was listed as of no occupation and weak sighted; George Bishop, aged 22 years - a shoemaker; Ada Selina Bishop, aged 17 years - a board school teacher; Thomas Bishop, aged 15 years - an engineer's apprentice; Ethel Minnie Bishop, aged 13 years - a scholar; Mabel Bishop, aged 11 years - a scholar and Walter Bishop, aged 5 years and also a scholar.
The 1901 census shows him as aged 62 years and a retired plasterer, residing at 76 Cranmer Road, Forest Gate, West Ham, Essex (now Greater London), with his wife, their daughter Mabel Bishop, aged 21 years, their son Walter Bishop, aged 15 years, their niece Mabel Smith, aged 18 years, their married daughter Ada Salina Sluce, aged 27 years, their grand children: William A Sluce, aged 4 years and Grace de la Sluce, aged 2 years, their married daughter Hannah Elizabeth House, aged 39 years and their son-in-law George A. House, aged 47 years and a railway engine driver, together with a female domestic servant.
When he completed his 1911 census return form he described himself as aged 72 years and a retired plasterer, living in a seven roomed property at 76 Cranmer Road, Forest Gate, with his wife, whom he described as a cook and who had given birth to nine children of whom seven were still alive, their son Walter Bishop, aged 25 years and a bank clerk, their daughter Mabel Bishop, aged 31 years who was slightly deaf and an unemployed milliner, their granddaughter Eveline Bishop, aged 5 years, their grandson Walter Arthur Bishop, aged 1 years, their niece Mabel Smith, aged 27 years, together with a female general servant.
His death, aged 78 years, was registered in the 2nd quarter of 1917 in the West Ham Registration District, Essex (now Greater London). Probate records confirm that his address had been 76 Cranmer Road, Forest Gate and that he had died on 16 May 1917. His took place , 133A Cemetery Road, London, E7 9DG.
Probate was initially granted on 19 July 1917 jointly to his son George Bishop, a fruiterer and George Alfred House, a retired engineer. However, probate was subsequently regranted on 16 November 1917 jointly to his widow, to his son Walter Bishop who was a seaman in the Royal Navy and to his daughter Mabel House, the wife of George Edward House. In both cases, his effects totalled £7,878-6s-2d.
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