Christening: 05 AUG 1821 St Sepulchre, London
Marriage: 28 DEC 1840 Saint Dunstan, Stepney, London, England
On 3rd September, 1878 the steam pleasure boat Princess Alice was engaged on an excursion from North Woolwich to Sheerness and during the return voyage, whilst negotiating Gallions Reach on the Thames, she was struck by the coal-ship, Bywell Castle (1376 tons), at 7.40 pm, sinking within a few minutes. There had been upwards of eight hundred people on board Princess Alice - some reports suggest nine hundred - and five hundred and twenty-nine people drowned. John Bishop, of Old Ford, identified his father, Wm. Horn Bishop, plumber, who went with two friends, one of whom was missing.