Last name: BISH
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BISH : This last name is indexed 10,279 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
BISH : 1: Americanized form of German Bisch.2: English: topographic name for someone who lived ‘(by the) thicket ’ from Old English (ge)bysce or from places so named such as Bish Wood in Sussex and Bysshe Court in Surrey.
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