Mary Jane Bissett - Dublin - abt 1867

[Emma08]

Thanks so much for those links Shaun....

I think there's a chance the Balbriggan carpenter could be John...

I wonder if the Maria Joanna is Mary Jane?

Mary Jane had a daughter, Mary Pearl, who was actually christened Maria Pearl...

Interesting.

I had thought Mary Jane was born later - 1867 - but maybe not....

[Emma08]

I looked at the Maria Joanna record - and she was baptised in Balbriggan in 1862 - which fits with the John Bissett carpenter in Balbriggan too....

I had thought Mary Jane was born closer to 1867 - as her marriage certificates and future UK census' state a later birth date (ranging from 1866 to 1870)...

[dathai]

Family Search births 1620/1881
Shows
Philip Bissett 6 Jan 1864
Michael Bissett 3 Oct 1865 as children of John Bissett and Catherine Byrne.

[dathai]

Stark County Ohio marriage 18 Sep 1901
Ella Christena Bissett age 26? born Dublin 1875 dtr of John Bissett and Catherine Byrne
Married
James Boylan born Ireland son of James Boylan and Catherine Fox

[ShaunJ]

Looks like Michael Bissett emigrated to the US circa 1887 and settled in Canton City, Stark, Ohio where he died in 1950.

And as Dathai has just posted there was also an Ella Christina Bissett who named the same parents (John Bissett & Catherine Byrne) when she married in Canton Ohio in 1901. She said she was 26 but could this be "Hellenora" who would have been 33? https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-17962-4817-12

[dathai]

Yes ShaunJ that was why i put the ? after Ella's age,and i think they were both telling porkie pies about their ages as James seems to have been born 1867 in Cavan,though his death says born 1872.

[dathai]

Well done ShaunJ i think you've cracked it.

[Emma08]

I think you have!

I did notice those other two births.... Just trying to check if it's the right family. There's a Byrne/Bissett connection a generation later in the family too.... Coincidence? Or did the two families know each other this far back. Interesting

Thanks heaps for the help!

[Emma08]

One more thing that's a bit confusing....

We thought that Mary Jane Bissett had a sister named Edith. The reason we thought this is because there is a document from 1900 that has been signed by Mary Jane and by an "Edith J Menelly" who is stated as being Mary Jane's sister. The document was signed near London.

If Mary did have a sister named Edith, then I can't find any trace of her. There are no Edith Bissetts born in Ireland or overseas between 1860 and 1890...
There don't appear to be any Bissett/Menelly marriage records either.

So.... Could Edith be using a different first name for some reason?
The names in this family do alter slightly from document to document.
For example: Mary Jane or "Maria joanna" as she may have been, changes her name to "Mary Pauline" on all documents after 1894.... But it's definitely the same person.