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Subject: [BISSETT-L] zzsss
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 14:52:57 +0000


Hi all,
I've been away for a few days and it's good to come back to the postings to
see whats new.

My Nana {paternal grandmother} called her husband Papa Bizz-it or Bizz-et,
as did us kids.
My mum and dad are Biss-ets{soft s} and I vary depending on the hearing
qualities of the official I'm trying to communicate with.
Mother and Father tend to trip off my tongue in conversation with older
generation or upper-class members of society. I don't know why that should
be, perhaps it has a lot to do with my secondary schooling, a very old
school in Edinburgh,{868 years old} that in the latter part of the
seventies still instilled a degree for ones elders and peers. Perhaps i'm
just old fashioned.

I don't have much time just now but I have some news for the list regarding
the early Bissets. It goes some way to painting a picture of the spread of
the family throughout Scotland England and Ireland, the importance of
several early Bissets in shaping Scots and English History, the recurring
theme is that any power and or wealth that the male side of the family had
was either stripped from them or passed on by wives and or other members of
the family to other non-bisset familys. e.g. a Bisset was the Earl of Fife
and as this is a Kingdom he would have been very wealthy, however as far as
I can gather he left no sons and consequently the title was "given" away!!!.

oh...... and Robert the Bruce was

Robert de Brus..................................more later!
Regards,
James Hughson Bisset. b. 1964.
Edinburgh, Scotland.
55 North a few minutes west {Same latitude as Moscow, back into the arms of
spring!}

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