Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameJames Edmond BISSET, 4C1R
Birthabt 1878, Fetteresso, Kincardineshire
Death20 Aug 1941, Queensland, Australia
OccupationTea And Coffee Planter
FatherWilliam BISSET (~1836-1893)
MotherBarbara Knox THOMSON (~1845-1927)
Spouses
Birth23 Feb 1892, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
Marriage26 Jul 1915
ChildrenWilliam James (1916-2001)
 Ronald Thornton (1918-1983)
 Kenneth (1921-2012)
 Peter Colin (1925-2018)
 Olive Muriel Agnes (1931-2003)
Notes for James Edmond BISSET
In the 1881 Scotland Census
Tewel, Fetteresso, Kincardineshire
Head William Bisset, age 45, farmer of 242 acres 130 arable employs 7 men 1 girl, born Dunnottar, Kincardineshire
Wife Barbara K. Bisset, age 36, born Foveran, Aberdeenshire
Daughter Maggie Ann Reid Bisset, age 9, farmer’s daughter, born Ceylon
Daughter Anna Isabella Helen Bisset, age 8, scholar, born Ceylon
Daughter Julia Argo Bisset, age 5, scholar, born Fetteresso
Son James Edward Bisset, age 3, born Fetteresso
5 servants

Queensland Australia Passenger Lists
Departed London, England, on the Chyebassa arrived Brisbane, August 25 1884
Barbara Bisset, age 35 [should be about 39]
Maggie Bisset, age 12
Ann Bisset, age 11
Julia Bisset, age 8
James Bisset, age 6
John Bisset, age 2

Certificate of Marriage
July 26 1915, West Street, Toowoomba
James Edmond Bissett, planter, residence Mayfield Estate, Nellakota, Nelgiris?, South India, bachelor, age 37, born Stonehaven, Kincardineshire, Scotland, father William Bisset farmer, mother Barbara Thomson and
Muriel Barnes, household duties, residence West Street, Toowoomba, spinster, age 23, born Toowoomba, Queensland, father William Woodley Barnes, civil servant, mother Agnes Houston
Witnesses Harold Edwin O’Brien and Margaret Isabel Dewar [niece of James]

Australia Electoral Rolls 1937
Sandgate, Lilley, Queensland
Sandgate Road, Boondall
James Edmond Bisset
Muriel Bisset, home duties

Australia Death Index
James Edmond Bisset, died August 20 1941, Queensland, father William Bisset, mother Barbara Thomson

findagrave.com
James Edmond Bisset
Cemetery: Bald Hills Cemetery
Burial or Cremation Place: Bracken Ridge, Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
Notes for Muriel (Spouse 1)
Australia Birth Index
Muriel Barnes
Birth Date: 23 Feb 1892
Birth Place: Queensland
Father: William Woodley Barnes
Mother: Agnes Houston
Page Number: 1208
Registration Number: 003798

Australia Electoral Rolls 1949
Sandgate, Lilley, Queensland
Sandgate Road, Boondall
Muriel Bisset, home duties
Peter Colin Bisset, clerk
Ian Robert Bisset, electrician
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