Agnes (McLeod) Bisset (1831 - 1914)

Born 16 Feb 1831 in Edinburgh, Scotland

Wife of William Alexander Bisset — married 24 Jun 1849 in Church of Kilmallie, Fort William, Lochaber, Inverness-shire, Scotland

Descendants

Died 9 Mar 1914 at age 83 in Kaitangata, Otago, New Zealand

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Biography

Agnes was born 16 February,1831 and was the eldest daughter of George and Agnes (Reid) McLeod. She told her family she had been born in Edinburgh where her father was a butler, but the only record of her birth found to date was in her bible. At the census in 1841 (at age 10) she was living at Kilmallie, Inverness with her mother (aged 25) and younger sisters Eliza (aged 5) and Margaret (aged <1) and brother Norman (aged 3). Agnes married William Bisset in the Church of Kilmallie, Fort William, Lochaber in Invernesshire in 1849. Together, 3 months later, they sailed for New Zealand on board the Mooltan. She passed away at Kaitangata, Otago in New Zealand in 1914.

Sources

ScotlandsPeople: Church Registers - Old Parish Registers: Banns and Marriages. William Bisset_Agnes McLeod, 24/06/1849. Parish No. 520/, Ref. 2016. Kilmallie.

• https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz Death Registration 1914/10828 Aged 83 Years (Spelling Bissett)/>

• Most of the information above was obtained from "The Bisset Book - A brief history of the first hundred years of the Bisset family in New Zealand", compiled by Joan Stevens; printed in 1989 by Central Otago News Print, Skird Street, Alexandra
• This person was created through the import of BissetByth.ged on 30 September 2010. The following data was included in the gedcom.