Bissell Family History
- Bissell Name Meaning
- English: from Middle English buyscel, busshell, bysshell ‘bushel’, ‘measure of grain’ (Old French boissel, buissel, of Gaulish origin), hence a metonymic occupational name for a grain merchant or factor, one who measured grain. The name may also have been applied to a maker of vessels designed to hold or measure out a bushel. English: from a diminutive of Biss. Respelling of German Biesel, a habitational name from Bisel in Alsace.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 479,211 Historical Documents with Bissell on Ancestry
- 87,641 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 58,580 Census and Voter Lists
- 12,137 Military Records
- 6,638 Immigration Records
- 314,215 Member Trees
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Number of Bissell families
 84 - 166  29 - 83 |
 1 - 28  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bissell families
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34 - 66 12 - 33 |
1 - 11 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Bissell census records
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- England (27)
- Dempsonline,Scotland (4)
- Dumpunline,Scotland (4)
- Great Britain (4)
- Scotland (4)
- Ireland (3)
from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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