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bisson Name Meaning and History

  1. possibly from a diminutive of Old French bisse ‘fine linen’ (see Bisset).
  2. (Normandy) topographic name for someone who lived in an area of scrub land or by a prominent clump of bushes, from Old French buisson ‘bush’, ‘scrub’ (a diminutive of bois ‘wood’).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of bisson Families in the US in 1920
Number of bisson families
 28-53
 10-27		 1-9
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 77 - Messages: 235
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info on Edward C. Bisson Kyme 4
Esther Bisson PPEELL 0
Bisson Family - Can you help? (Quebec, & ON) Lisa 6
Francois and Aexina Rick A. Robinson 3
Bisson originating from Canada Marie-Josee Raby 35
Denaige Bisson b. 1901 Cambridge Ma cdynan 0
Ann Bison BerniceConley72 1
Bisson/Bolduc-Parents Dead Four Children Sick-18 Oct 1918-The Lowell Sun callmeshell1 0
Bisson family Yvonne Ellis 11
Bisson/Besson/Besaw FayeMartin58 1
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