'Bisset01'
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Families covered: Bisset (Byset) of Aboyne, Bisset of the Aird, Bisset (Byset) of Lessendrum, Bisset of Lovat
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First displayed: 02.01.04Last updated: 01.03.07
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?? Byset
1. Walter Byset of Aboyne (b c1185, d 1251)
  m. (1233) Ada of Galloway (dau of Roland of Galloway)
2. ??
  A nephew of Walter of Aboyne was ..
A. Sir John Byset or Bisset of the Aird (of Lovat and Beaufort)
  A site visitor (JB, 02.09.06) kindly provided us with some details about this John including advice that it was this John's son John who was father of the 3 daughters mentioned below rather than, as we had previously shown, this John himself.
  m1. ??
  i. John Bisset (d 1259)
  a.

John Bisset (dsp c1268)

  b. Cecilia Bisset
  m. William Fentoun of Beaufort
  c. Elizabeth Bisset
  m. Sir Andrew de Bosco or Bosho of Redcastle
  (1) Mary de Bosco
  m. Hugh Rose of Geddes, 1st of Kilravock (d 1306)
  d. Mary or Muriel Bisset
..
  m. Sir David de Graham of Lovat (d 1297)
..
ii. ? Mary Bisset
  m. Gregory le Grant
  m2. Agatha
  iii.+ ?? Byset or Bisset ancestor of Clan Eoin or Bysets of Glens of Antrim
  B. William Bisset brother of the above Sir John
  A nephew of Walter of Aboyne was ..
  C. Thomas Byset of Aboyne probably father of ..
  i. Walter Byset of Aboyne and Lessendrum (a 1304) succeeded by ...
  a. Thomas Byset of Aboyne and Lessendrum probably father of ..
  (1) Walter Byset of Lessendrum (a 1379) probably father of ..
  (A) Patrick Byset of Lessendrum (a 1411)
  (i) ?? Byset
  (a) Patrick Byset of Lessendrum (d 1503) - continued below

 

 

Patrick Byset of Lessendrum (d 1503) - continued above
m. Isabel Lindsay
1. Patrick Byset of Lessendrum (a 1505)
  m. Catharine Gordon (dau of William Gordon of Tillytarmont)
  A. Patrick Byset of Lessendrum (d Pinkie 1547)
  m. _ Murray (dau of Murray of Cowbairdie)
i. Patrick Byset of Lessendrum (d Corrichie 28.10.1562)
  a. George Bisset of Lessendrum (b 1549/50, d 25.01.1623)
  (1) Robert Bisset of Lessendrum (d c1646)
  m. _ Gordon (dau of George Gordon of Cocklarachie)
  (A) Alexander Bisset of Lessendrum (d 1693)
  m. (1650) Anne Gordon (d 1714, dau of Robert Gordon of Straloch)
  (i) Robert Bisset of Lessendrum (b 1651)
  m. (1681) Agnes Abercrombie (dau of ?? Abercrombie of Birkenbog)
  (a) James Bisset of Lessendrum (d 1748)
  m. Anne Dun (d 1782, dau of _ Dun of Tarty)
  ((1)) Alexander Bisset of Lessendrum (bpt 27.01.1734, d unm 1795)
  ((2)) Ann Bisset of Lessendrum (d unm?)
  ((3)) Agnes Bisset of Lessendrum (bpt 22.11.1726, d unm?)
  ((4)) Mary Bisset of Lessendrum
  m. Rev. _ Abel of Drumblade
  ((5)) Margaret Bisset of Lessendrum (bpt 24.12.1730)
((6))+ other issue - Robert (bpt 14.10.1723, dvp?), Jean (bpt 04.1728), Elizabeth (bpt 20.06.1732)
  (ii) William Bisset (Major)
  (a) Alexander Bisset (Dr.)
  m. Jane Bockland (dau of General _ Bockland of Knighton, Isle of Wight)
  ((1)) Maurice George Bisset of Lessendrum (b 1757, d 26.12.1821)
  BLG1952 identifies Maurice's wife Harriet as "eldest dau. of John Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough". It appears that there was no such Earl at this time.
  m. Harriet (Mordaunt)
  ((A)) Jane Harriot Bisset of Lessendrum (d 1866)
  m. (03.1824) Maurice George Fenwick, later Bisset of Lessendrum (d 06.08.1879, archdeacon of Raphoe, cousin)
When her cousin William (below) had no male issue, Lessendrum reverted to Jane.  
  ((B)) Ann Bisset (d unm1879)
  ((2)) William Bisset, Bishop of Raphoe, later of Lessendrum (dsp 04.09.1834)
  m. Jane Erle (dau of Rev. Christopher Erle)
  ((3)) Alexander Bisset
  m. Catherina Bagenal
  ((A)) William Bisset of Lessendrum (b 1797, d 08.01.1858) had issue (1 dau)
  m. (11.05.1830) Alicia Howard (d 08.05.1836, dau of 3rd Earl of Wicklow)
  ((4)) George Bisset (dsp 11.1828, Rev.)
  m. Catherine Howard (d 1850, dau of John Howard, 15th Earl of Suffolk, 8th Earl of Berkshire)
  ((5)) Henry Bisset
  ((6)) Elizabeth Bisset
  m. William Fenwick of Lemmington
  ((7)) Sophia Bisset (dsp 25.04.1837)
  m. (27.06.1810) Sir Robert Brownrigg, 1st Bart (d 27.05.1833)
The following comes from the web site used for the upper section.
  ii. Janet Byset
  m. John Byset of Aberdeen
  iii. Margaret Byset
  m. Thomas Baird
  B. William Byset
  m. _ Leslie (dau of Patrick Leslie of Craigtoun)
  i. John Byset
  C. Bessie Byset
  m. Robert Forbes of Balinghame
  D. Elizabeth Byset
  m. Alexander Thomson of Disblair
2. daughter
  m. Alexander Gordon of Tillytarmont (d Pinkie 1547)
3. Beatrice Byset
  m. Walter Leslie, 2nd of New Leslie
4. daughter
  m. William Leslie, 1st of Crichie

Main sources:
(1) For upper section : http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rowerowe/Thanage.htm
(2) For lower section : BLG1952 (Bisset of Lessendrum)
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