Catherine Mock & Dieterich Bishop

Paul R. Swan May 2005

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Catherine Mock & Dieterich Bishop

Catherine Descent

Catherine was born 14 Oct 1783. She died 3 Jun 1845 and was buried in Baust's Cemetery, Tyrone, Carroll, Maryland.

Dieterich's birth date and place are unknown.

Dieterich and Catherine married before 1804.

The identification of Catherine’s husband as Teter Bishop comes from the court Petition, discussed earlier, concerning the intestate proceedings of her father, Peter Mock who died in 1812. He is further identified (as Dedrich) in the Chancery procedings of his own father, John Bishop, who also died intestate one year after Peter. Those latter documents, dated 27 Jun 1833, name all of the children of John Bishop (see below). John Bishop owned land in Frederick County, including “The New Location”, “Errors Corrected”, “Resurvey on Runneymede” and “Friendship Agreement”. All of this has been recorded online on the pages of Dorinda Davis Shepley [midmdroots.freewebspace.com/frederick/MdChancery.htm], which gives citations to the court records.

Jacob Bishop purchased 124 acres for $175.00 from his brother Dedrich Bishop which included all of the latter’s rights to the estate of their father John Bishop Sr., in “Errors Corrected”, “New Location” and part of “Friendship Agreement” adjoining David Foutz, Jacob Correll, Peter Shoemaker and Peter Babelon and others, signed in German by Dedrich and wife Catharine [Frederick County Deed HS 36:60-62 recorded on 9 May 1831, op. cit.].

Dieterich, I use here the conventional German spelling, has his given name appear in the records as Dedrich, Dieterick, Deter, and, in Peter Mock’s Chancery proceedings, Teter. The surname was Bischoff when the family immigrated, and occasionally appears as Bishoff in the records in Maryland.

Deterich was censused 1820 in Taneytown as Deter Bishop, and 1830 as Dieterick of Election District 6. In 1840 he was censused as Teter Bishop, District 1, Carroll Co., and in 1850 as Detrich in Carroll County, aged 73. It is not clear how many of the persons censused in his household are his children, and how many might be sons- or daughters-in-law. Certainly John, below, must be a grandson. It seems likely that Mary was a daughter-in-law because she does not appear in the 1830 census. She was 13 years younger than Peter. (Parenthetical entries from separate sources):

Census of: 1820 1830 1840 1850

Deterich 1774-90 1770-80 1770-80 1776-77 Detrich

Catherine 1774-90 1780-90 1780-90 (1783 tombstone)

female 1794-04

male 1804-10 1800-10 1800-10

female 1804-10

male 1810-20 1810-15 (Henry)

female 1810-20 1810-15 1810-20

female 1810-20 1815-20 1815-16 Peter

female 1810-20 1819-20 Sarah

female 1820-25 1820-25 1823-24 Siwan*

female 1820-25

male 1825-30 1825-30 (John)

1828-29 Mary

1939-40 John

*indexed as Swan by Heritage Quest.

Catherine’s birth date of 14 Oct 1783 comes by calculation based on a reading of her Baust Cemetery tombstone: “Catherine (w/o D.) died 3 Jun 1845 @@ 61y.7m.20d” [midmdroots.freewebspace.com/carroll/cemeteries/baust.htm]. The transcription lists her with four others under the heading “Bishoff”, with Johannis born 1740 the first, but doesn’t indicate whether or not all of the stones use that spelling. This is the cemetery in which her father Peter Mock is interred together with his third wife Margaret.

The four censuses for the siblings in the family are somewhat problematic due to highly inaccurate census ages from year to year:

Census of: 1850 1860 1870 1880

Henry 1817-18 1815-16 1813-14 1814-15

Peter 1815-16 1813-14} 1809-10} 1807-08}

Sarah 1819-20 1822-23} 1815-16}

Siwan 1823-24

Sallie 1823-24}

John 1825-26 1825-26 1835-36* 1825/26

Susanna 1834-35} 1829-30} 1827-28}

Mary 1828-29 1839-40} 1831-32} 1831-32}

* same wife and daughter, so age of 34 is simply a mistake for 44

Each year the four people indicated with a } were in a single household in Taneytown. The 1880 census explicitly identified the four that year as siblings, with Sallie (not Peter) as head of household. Note that in 1880 Sallie was the same age as Siwan of 1850. I believe that these two were the same person, since the 1830 census lists only one daughter in that age bracket. The 17 year age difference for Sarah between 1860 and 1870 is awkward, but so is the fact that Peter aged on average less than eight years per decade through his last four censuses. That Susanna does not appear in the 1830 census probably means that her 1870 and 1880 ages were more nearly correct that that in 1860. Since the ages vary so drastically from decade to decade, I’m using the 1850 ages to specify birth years for the named children, except for Susanna (also appearing as Susannah and Susan).

In 1870 Peter, Sarah, Susannah and Mary were shown in Henry Bishop’s household, listed after his wife and three children. (Someone has gone over the census page and renumbered the households and families, separately for Peter and the three women, but the list of names is written as one would expect for a single house with two families. Peter had zero real estate value listed.) The 1880 census listed all four as single, which then means that Sarah (who doesn’t appear that year when siblinghood was specified) was not a wife of Peter, but a sister, also, since he wasn’t described as a widower.

None of these siblings appear in the Carroll County census of 1900. And who the 10 year old John Bishop was in 1850 is unknown, but probably the son of one of the older sons whose name we don’t have. Finally, at this point, I see no way to identify those five eldest children in the family, nor the son born 1825-30. Even if Bishop men were identified later as having been born 1804-10 and 1810-15, the exteme inaccuracies of the Frederick/Carroll county censuses would make that evidence of little value.

An abstract of the Chancery records, mentioned above, concerned with the estate of Dieterich’s father John Bishop has been posted on the web pages, midmdroots.freewebspace.com/frederick/MdChancery.htm, of Dorinda Davis Shepley. This identifies Dieterich’s siblings and some of the next generation children, so I copy that abstract here (with a few additions found on the internet added in square brackets):

Elizabeth COUGH ..vs.. Rachel BISHOP, George HAIFLEIGH

and wife Catherine - dtd 27 Jun 1833

John BISHOP, the Elder, died 2 Jul 1813 intestate

widow - (now deceased) and Children -

1. John (died 1829, intestate) ( all lived in Preston Co, VA) [WV]

.....widow - Susanna children

.....1-1. Henry (later moved to Garrett Co, Md)

.....1-2. John

.....1-3. Joseph

.....1-4. Samuel

.....1-5. William

.....1-6. Rachel w/o John BETTEZ [Bettis?]

2. Dedrich (sold his share to brother Jacob on 30 Apr 1831)

3. Henry (of Preston Co, VA; sold his share to brother Jacob)

[m Julia/Juliana Lantz]

4. Jacob (lately died intestate) of Frederick Co, Md

.....widow - Rachel six minor children (named as guardian)

.....4-1. Catharine w/o George HAIFLEIGH (named guardian of wife)

.....4-2. Eve

.....4-3. Mary

.....4-4. Jacob

.....4-5. John

.....4-6. Hannah

5. Christian (of Preston Co, VA)

6. Elizabeth widow/o Martin COUGH

7. Catharine w/o David H. FRIES (sold her share to brother Jacob)

8. Eve w/o Henry LANTZ (of Preston Co, VA)

The ten children of Dieterich and Catherine (Mock) Bishop were a daughter, a daughter, a son, Henry, a daughter, Peter, Sarah, Siwan/Sallie, John and Mary.

i Unnamed daughter, born before 1804. The birth year of this first daughter of Catherine and Henry is, from the 1820 census, between 1794 and 1804. However, since Catherine was born in 1783, and was still at home with her parents in 1800, I’ve listed this daughter as born before (and probably quite near to) 1804.

ii Unnamed daughter, born 1804/1810.

iii Unnamed son, born 1804/1810.

iv Henry son, born 1813/1816 in Maryland. Henry married Mary ____ {b 1819/1820 in Maryland}.

Henry BISHOP Self M Male W 65 MD Farmer MD MD

Mary BISHOP Wife M Female W 50 MD Keeping House MD MD

Emily C. BISHOP Other Female W 36 MD Home MD MD

Henry C. BISHOP Son S Male W 26 MD Laborer MD MD

Samuel T. BISHOP Son S Male W 20 MD Laborer MD MD

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1880 Census Taneytown, Carroll, Maryland

NA Film Number T9-0506 Page Number 273B

The seven children of Henry and Mary (____) Bishop:

1 Anna E. daughter, born 1839/1840 in Maryland.

2 John T. son, born 1841/1842 in Maryland.

3 Mary A. daughter, born 1845/1846 in Maryland.

4 Alice daughter, born 1845/1846 in Maryland.

5 Henry C. son, born 1852/1853 in Maryland.

6 Samuel T. son, born 1860 in Maryland. Samuel was three months old in the 1860 census.

7 Emily C. daughter?, born 1843/1844 in Maryland. Emily was censused four times (once as Amelia) in Henry’s household, but the last time, in 1880, she was listed as “other” rather than daughter. I’m including her here but point out that there is some question about her parentage.

v Unnamed daughter, born 1810/1815.

vi Peter son, born 1815/1816 in Maryland.

vii Sarah daughter, born 1819/1820 in Maryland.

viii Siwan/Sallie daughter, born 1823/1824 in Maryland.

ix John son, born 1825/1826 in Maryland. John married Mary A. ____ {b 1829/1830 in Maryland and died after 1900}.

There were three John Bishops in Taneytown in the 1800s. The first was a farmer born 1800-1801, with a wife Susanna born 1802-03, and three children Maria, Rufus and Jane, ages 23, 28 and 19, all in the 1860 census.

The second was John A., in the same census, age 38 so born 1821/22, with a wife Miranda 28 and a 2 year old daughter whose name I could not decipher. He could have been a son of John and Susanna, but I have no evidence one way or the other regarding such a relationship. Dieterich also had a brother Jacob who had a son John about whom I know nothing else.

The third John Bishop was this son of Dieterich, censused in 1860, 70 and 80 in his own household, the second time with a ten year error in his age, but with the same wife and daughter. In that census, he had, in addition to some workers in his household, an Anna M. Bishop, 82, so born 1787/88. She was listed as a boarder, not a relative, but surely must have been one.

John BISHOP Self M Male W 54 MD Retired Farmer MD MD

Mary A. BISHOP Wife M Female W 50 MD Keeping House PA MD

Laura V. BAXTER Dau M Female W 26 MD Home MD MD

Morris BAXTER SSon S Male W 6 MD PA MD

Blanch BAXTER GDau S Female W 1 MD PA MD

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1880 Census Taneytown, Carroll, Maryland

Family History Library Film 1254506 Page Number 275A

The only child of John and Mary A. (____) Bishop:

1 Laura B. daughter, born 1853/1854 in Maryland. Laura 1872/73 married ____ Baxter.

In 1880 John Bishop’s daughter Laura was still in his home, but having married a Baxter, with a 6 year old son Morris, and a 1 year old daughter Blanch. (Heritage Quest incorrectly indexed Morris as “SSon” instead of Grand-Son as it appears clearly in the census itself.)

In 1900 Laura was in Surface Creek, Delta County, Colorado with her son, an optician, and her daughter Blanch Corbin whose husband Eugene was also an optician. With them that year was Mary A. Bishop, Laura’s mother, and the widow of John. In 1910 Laura and her mother and daughter were also censused in Delta City [Series: T624 Roll: 114 Page: 38].

Laura Baxter Jun 1854 45 m 27 yrs, 2 ch, 2 living

MD MD MD

Maurice, son Oct 1874 25 MD MD MD

Blanch Corbin, dtr Sep 1879 20 m 3 yrs MD MD MD

Eugene, Son-in-Law Feb 1874 26 1 ch, 1 living OH OH OH

Leila B., Gd Daughter Jun 1898 1 CO OH MD

Mary A. Bishop, mother Jan 1830 70 1 ch, 1 living MD MD MD

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1900 CO DELTA SURFACE CRK

Series: T623 Roll: 122 Page: 258

The two children of ____ and Laura (Bishop) Baxter:

i Morris son, born 1873/1874 in Maryland.

ii Blanch B. daughter, born 1878/1879 in Maryland. Blanch 1896/97 married Eugene Corbin {b 1873/1874 in Ohio}. They were censused 1920 in the 6^th Precinct of Delta City with his mother-in-law in their home, listed as “Baxter, Laura V. J. B.” [Series: T625 Roll: 157 Page: 76]. I have no idea what those three initials stand for.

The only child of Eugene and Blanch B. (Baxter) Corbin:

1 Leila B. daughter, born 1898/1899 in Colorado.

x Mary, daughter, born 1831/1832 in Maryland.