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Paternal Family Tree: Bisshop
On 29th December 1752 Cecil Bisshopp 12th Baron Zouche was born to Cecil Bisshopp 7th Baronet.
In 1779 [his father] Cecil Bisshopp 7th Baronet died. Cecil Bisshopp 12th Baron Zouche succeeded 8th Baronet Bisshopp of Parham in Sussex.
In or before 1783 Cecil Bisshopp 12th Baron Zouche and Harriet Anne Southwell were married. They had had two sons, both of whom predeceased him, and three daughters.
On 25th June 1783 [his son] Lieutenant-Colonel Cecil Bisshopp was born to Cecil Bisshopp 12th Baron Zouche.
In or after 1784 [his son] Lieutenant Charles Cecil Bisshop was born to Cecil Bisshopp 12th Baron Zouche.
On 7th September 1787 [his daughter] Harriet Anne Bisshopp 13th Baroness Zouche was born to Cecil Bisshopp 12th Baron Zouche.
On 1st December 1791 [his daughter] Katharine Anabella Bisshop Lady Brooke-Pechell was born to Cecil Bisshopp 12th Baron Zouche.
In 1808 [his son-in-law] Robert Curzon Baron Zouche and [his daughter] Harriet Anne Bisshopp 13th Baroness Zouche were married.
In 1808 [his son] Lieutenant Charles Cecil Bisshop died of yellow fever in Jamaica after the frigate Muros was wrecked whilst endeavouring to destroy some batteries near Havana, Cuba.
Around 16th July 1813 [his son] Lieutenant-Colonel Cecil Bisshopp died from wounds. Bisshopp's final action in the war was to lead an attack on Black Rock, New York from Fort George, Ontario. The raid was successful but their departure was delayed and he was injured in a counterattack. He died from his injuries a few days later. Bishopp is buried in the Lundy's Lane Battlefield Cemetery in Niagara Falls, Ontario.
The London Gazette 17046. Whitehall, July 27, 1815.
His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, has been graciously pleased to order a writ to be issued, under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for summoning Sir Cecil Bisshopp, of Parham-Park, in the county of Sussex, Baronet, up to the House of Peers, by the name, stile, and title of Baron Zouche, of Haryngworth, he being lineally descended from the eldest of the two daughters [Note. Elizabeth Zouche and Mary Zouche] of Edward the last Lord Zouche, of Haryngworth, who died without issue male in 1625 and one of the rightful heirs of the said Barony, which was created by writ of summons in the reign of King Edward the Second.
On 1st August 1826 [his son-in-law] George Brooke-Pechell 4th Baronet and [his daughter] Katharine Anabella Bisshop Lady Brooke-Pechell were married at Parham Park, Sussex.
On 11th November 1828 Cecil Bisshopp 12th Baron Zouche died. Baron Zouche Harringworth abeyant. George Bisshopp 9th Baronet succeeded 9th Baronet Bisshopp of Parham in Sussex.
The London Gazette 18540. Whitehall, January 8, 1829.
The King has been pleased to direct letter patent to be passed under the Great Seal, declaring that the Honourable [his daughter] Harriet-Anne Curzon (wife of the Honourable [his son-in-law] Robert Curzon), being one of the two surviving daughters [Note. the other being [his daughter] Katharine Anabella Bisshop Lady Brooke-Pechell] and coheirs of the body of Cecil, late Baron Zouche of Haryngworth and shall be Baroness Zouche of Haryngworth and shall have and enjoy the said ancient Barony of Zouche of Haryngworth, to her and the heirs of her body in as full and ample manner as the said Cecil Baron Zouche of Haryngworth, or any of his ancestors, Barons Zouche of Haryngworth, held and enjoyed the same.