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The bissell Surname

bissell Name Meaning and History

  1. 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.
  2. English: from a diminutive of Biss.
  3. Respelling of German Biesel, a habitational name from Bisel in Alsace.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of bissell Families in the US in 1920
Number of bissell families
 93-184
 32-92		 1-31
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Ohio Bissell family? panthers171 6
Windsor CT 1640 ferry Clark Pickens 15
seeking info on 2 brothers of James R. Bissell of PA luisdrewwendy1 1
George Bissell m. Maria Springer Harley Bissell 3
George Bissell m. Maria Springer olivebunny 1
Bissell Family Joyce Weeks Howard 43
Bissells, George, Hiram, Lester; Canada & Michigan DavidCurtis24 7
BISSELL FAMILY!! IMPORTANT!! Andrea 25
Erastus Bissell sells E Windsor land to Wolcott sueluvgss 2
Bissell lineage cjnagle 0
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