| 10. | David BISSET was born on 25 Jul 1807 in Fetteresso, Kincardine, Scotland, UK; died on 12 Mar 1892 in Fintray, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK; was buried in Mar 1892 in Maryculter Kirkyard, Maryculter, Kincardine, Scotland, UK. Other Events and Attributes:
- Occupation: Farmer
- _FGRAVE: 136880717
- Census: 1851, Stranog, Maryculter, Kincardineshire, Scotland
- Census: 1861, North Eastside Farm, Maryculter, Kincardine, Scotland, UK
- Census: 1871, Eastside (Stranog), Maryculter, Kincardineshire, Scotland
- Census: 1881, Stranog, Maryculter, Kincardineshire, Scotland
- Census: 1891, St Meddans, Fintray, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
- Probate: 30 Jun 1892, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
- Will: 30 Jun 1892, Cookney, Fetteresso, Kincardineshire, Scotland, UK
Notes:
Birth:
Fetteresso OPR
Census:
1851 census for Stranog, Maryculter, Kincardineshire:
David Bisset, head, aged 43, farmer Of 54 acres, born Maryculter, Kincardineshire
Jane Bisset, wife, aged 36, born Maryculter, Kincardineshire
John Bisset, son, aged 7, born Maryculter, Kincardineshire
Helen Bisset, dau, aged 6, born Maryculter, Kincardineshire
David Bisset, son, aged 3, born Maryculter, Kincardineshire
William Bisset, son, aged 11 months, born Maryculter, Kincardineshire
William Cockie, servant, aged 14, born Maryculter, Kincardineshire
Elspet Elson, servant, aged 20, born Maryculter, Kincardineshire
Census:
1861 Census for North Eastside Farm, Maryculter, Kincardine:
David Bisset Head / Farmer of 70 Acres (Married) 53 born : Fetteresso
Jane Silver Bisset Wife 46 born : Maryculter
John Bisset Son 17 born : Maryculter
David Bisset Son / Scholar 13 born : Maryculter
William Bisset Son / Scholar 11 born : Maryculter
James G Bisset Son / Scholar 6 born : Maryculter
Isabella Bisset Daughter 4 born : Maryculter
Jane Silver Domestic Servant (Unmarried) 18 born : Maryculter
Note: the Jane Silver who was domestic servant in 1861 would be the daughter of Jane Silver Bisset's 1st cousin John (who married Elizabeth Robertson). She eventually married a James Bisset (illegitimate son of Andrew Bisset and Eliz Crossar) who seems to be connected to David Bisset's family.
Census:
1871 census for Eastside (Stranog), Maryculter, Kincardineshire
David Bisset, aged 63, farmer of 30 acres employing 3 labourers
Jane Bisset, wfie, aged 56, born Maryculter, Kincardineshire
John Bisset, son, aged 28, born Maryculter, Kincardineshire
David Bisset, son, aged 23, born Maryculter, Kincardineshire
William Bisset, son, aged 20, born Maryculter, Kincardineshire
Jane Bisset, dau, aged 18, born Maryculter, Kincardineshire
Isabella Bisset, dau, aged 14, born Maryculter, Kincardineshire
Alexander Forsyth, farm servant, aged 15, born Maryculter, Kincardineshire
Census:
1881 census for Stranog, Maryculter, Kincardineshire:
David Bisset, head, aged 73, farmer (Of 105 acres - of Which 65 arable, employing 1 man and 1 girl)
William Bisset, son, aged 30
Isabella Bisset, daughter-in-law, aged 30
Robert Forrest, servant, aged 19
Jane Simpson, servant, aged 20
Census:
Staying with daughter Helen and Esson family.
Probate:
BISSET, David. Value of estate, £417, 11s. 1d.
30 June.-Inventory of David Bisset, residing sometime at Wedderhill, Parish of Fetteresso or Cookney, Kincardineshire, thereafter at Fintray, Parish of Fintray, who died 12 March 1892, at Fintray, testate, given up at Aberdeen, by James Gordon Bisset, Bookseller, Aberdeen, his son, Executor nominated in Will or Dee, dated 8 July 1891, and recorded in Court Books of Commmissariot of Aberdeen, 30 June 1892.
Will:
LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF DAVID BISSET
Page 1115
Extract Testament of DAVID BISSET - DECEASED
At Aberdeen the Thirtieth day of June in the year One Thousand eight hundred and ninety two. In presence of JOHN GUTHRIE SMITH, Esquire, Advocate, Sheriff of Aberdeen, Kincardine and Banff, compeared GEORGE COLLIE, Advocate in Aberdeen and gave in the Testament underwritten of the after designed now deceased DAVID BISSET and craved that the same might (along with an Inventory of the Personal Estate of the said Deceased) be inserted and registered in the Sheriff Court Books of Aberdeen, Kincardine and Banff at Aberdeen in terms of the Acts?
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?Acts of Parliament Forty Fourth George the Third, Chapter Ninety eight and Forty eight George the Third, chapter One hundred and forty-nine, which request the Sheriff foresaid found reasonable and ordained the same to be done accordingly and of which Testament (the principal being written in unstamped paper) the tenor follows namely - I DAVID BISSET residing at WEDDERHILL in the Parish of Fetteresso in Cookney, Kincardineshire in order to provide for the settlement of my worldly affairs at my death do hereby make my last Will and Testament. That is to say, I do hereby nominate and appoint the Revd William Selbie, Minister of the Free Church of Scotland, Maryculter, James Troup, Carpenter Cockley, Maryculter Peter Davidson, Shoemaker, Blairs Maryculter and my son James Gordon Bisset, Bookseller, Aberdeen to be my executors with all the powers competent to the office of executors And I will and ordain that my estate after the payment of all my just and lawful debts, death bed and funeral expenses incurred by my executors in the discharge of their office as executors shall be disposed of as follows : - That my three daughters HELEN now the wife of ROBERT ESSON - JANE the wife of WILLIAM REID and ISABELLA unmarried shall each receive the sum of One hundred pounds sterling - that DAVID BISSET ESSON son of the aforesaid HELEN and ROBERT ESSON shall receive twenty Pounds sterling; that JOHN DAVID BISSET son of my?
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? my son JOHN BISSET shall receive twenty Pounds sterling; That DAVID BROWN BISSET son of my son WILLIAM BISSET shall receive twenty pounds sterling and that DAVID REID son of my daughter JANE and her husband WILLIAM REID shall receive twenty pounds sterling. I will that my daughter ISABELLA BISSET above mentioned receive my chest of drawers, that my grand son ROBERT BISSET, Wedderhill receive my eight day clock; that my grand daughter MAGGIE BISSET - Mill of Crynoch receive my arm chair. I will that my grand son HENRY MONCREIFF BISSET son of my son DAVID - Minister of the Free Church Merven, receive my gold watch and chain. I further will and ordain that all the goods, gear and money or property of whatsoever kind which shall be found to constitute the residue of my estate shall be divided as follows: viz - My daughter or my daughter-in-law with whom or in whose house I shall have been residing at the time of my death shall receive one fourth part of the said residue and the remaining three fourths shall be divided equally - share and share alike among my four sons JOHN, DAVID, WILLIAM and JAMES GORDON BISSET and my three daughters HELEN, JANE and ISABELLA before named; it being understood that in the event of my having been residing with one of these three daughters?
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? at the time of my death shall receive as already stated one fourth of the whole residue but no share of the remaining three fourths of it. I also will and ordain that if any of my sons or daughters be deceased before the legacies herein bequeathed become payable the portion falling to the said deceased shall be divided equally share and share alike among his or her lawful children, if any; and if none, that the said portion be equally divided among his or her surviving brothers and sisters named or belonging to the families named in this Will. I further will and ordain that the sums herein bequeathed to DAVID BISSET ESSON to JOHN DAVID BISSET, to DAVID BROWN BISSET and to DAVID REID be invested by my executors for behoof of the said legatees, till they respectively attain twenty one years of age, and that the interest of the money thus invested be given from time to time to aid in meeting expenses for their education and business or other training. I also will and ordain that my son JAMES GORDON BISSET shall receive from my executors all the money that shall fall under this Will to my daughter ISABELLA BISSET, and that he shall have full control of the said money for her behoof; that he may invest it and give her the interest of it, or may give her parts of the money from time to time or the whole of it at once as he shall in ?
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? in his own discretion judge most for her benefit I wish to explain that the reason why I have not bequeathed more in this Will to my four sons is because of the amount I have already given to three of them while the other namely JAMES is in such circumstances that he less needs any legacy. And this I declare to be my last Will and Testament in all respects but reserve to myself the right to alter in or revoke the same at my pleasure. In Witness whereof these presents written by the Reverend WILLIAM SELBIE, Minister of the Free Church, Maryculter on this and the two preceding pages are subscribed by me at the Free Church Manse, Maryculter this eight day of July Eighteen hundred and ninety one years in presence of these witnesses MARGARET SELBIE daughter of and residing with the aforesaid Revd WILLIAM SELBIE and JAMES CAMERON, Farmer Stranoe, Maryculter (signed) DAVID BISSET, MARGARET SELBIE (witness) JAMES CAMERON (witness)
Aberdeen 30th June 1892 - referred to in my disposition of this date annexed to the Inventory of the Personal Estate of the deceased DAVID BISSET (signed JAMES G BISSET - G B MICHIE SCD.
Extracted on this and the eight preceeding pages by me Sheriff Clerk Depute of Aberdeenshire G B MICHIE.
Written by JOHN STILL.
Collated by G B MICHIE.
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EXTRACT INVENTORY
OF
THE PERSONAL ESTATE
OF
DAVID BISSET
DECEASED
At Aberdeen, the Thirtieth day of June in the year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Ninety Two, In presence of John Guthrie Smith, Esquire, Advocate Sheriff of Aberdeen, Kincardine and Banff, Compeared George Collie Advocate in Aberdeen and gave in the Inventory of the Personal Estate of the after designed and deceased DAVID BISSET and oath thereon under written, and carved that the same might (along with the Testament ?.
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? executed by the said deceased) be inserted and registered in the Sheriff Court Books of Aberdeen, Kincardine and Banff, at Aberdeen in terms of the Acts of Parliament passed in the forty-eighth year of the reign of His Majesty George the Third, chapter one hundred and forty-nine entitled "An Act for repealing the Stamp Duties on Deeds, Law Proceedings and other written or printed instruments and the Duties on Legacies and Succession to Personal Estate upon Intestacies now payable in Great Britain, and for granting new Duties in lieu thereof" and subsequent Acts; which request the Sheriff foresaid found reasonable and ordained the same to be done accordingly and of which Inventory and oath the tenor follows : namely : Inventory of the Personal Estate wheresoever situated of DAVID BISSET who resided sometime at Wedderhill in the Parish of Fetteresso or Cookney and County of Kincardine and thereafter at Fintray in the Parish of Fintray and County of Aberdeen and who died at Fintray aforesaid on the 12th day of March 1892 . Scotland?
Scotland - Personal Property
1. Cash in the house ?45-
2. Wearing Apparel belonging to deceased ?1-10-0
3. Debts due to the deceased viz:
1. Sum due to the deceased by his son JOHN BISSET
per acknowledgement dated 14th February 1887 ?18
Interest thereon to date of oath __3-17
?21-17
2. Sum due to the deceased by WILLIAM REID - farmer
Bankhead per Acknowledgement dated 20th May 1889 ?50
Interest thereon to date of oath __6-3-8
56-3-8
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3. Sum due to the deceased by his son WILLIAM BISSET
including Interest thereon to date of oath ?90-2
4. Sum due to the deceased by ROBERT ESSON Cothal
Mills, Fintray ?126
Interest thereon to date of oath __3-4-5
?129-4-5
5. Sum due to deceased by WILLIAM ANDERSON, Farmer
Parkhead, Maryculter ?294-10
Valued @ 5- per ?1 (being the amount of disposition offered
by debtor) ?73-14
?371-1-1
Total Amount of Personal Estate wheresoever situated ?417-11-1
(signed) James G Bisset, G B Michie SCD
Schedule of Debts due and owing from the deceased at the time of his death to persons resident in the United Kingdom and Funeral Expenses
I Debts
Cleaning and disinfecting bed linen, clothes, etc ?3-
II Funeral Expenses
Paid for Coffin ?3-5
Grave Clothes ?1-5
Advertising Death and Funeral in :
Daily Free Press ?0-9-6
Northern Daily News ?0-2-0
Aberdeen Journal ?0-2-6
?0-14-0
Funeral Intimations and Postages ?0-9-0
Messrs Campbell Ltd Hearse and Carriages ?7-15-0
13-16-0
?18-16-0
ABSTRACT
Total Amount of Personal Estate wheresoever situated ?417-11-1
Amount of Debts and Funeral Expenses as per Schedule ?18-16-0
Nett
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Nett Value of Personal Estate chargeable with duty ?398-15-1
(signed) James G Bisset & G B Michie SCD at Aberdeen the thirtieth day of June Eighteen hundred and ninety two years. In presence of George Bennet Michie Esquire, Sheriff Clerk Depute of Aberdeenshire. Appeared James Gordon Bisset, Bookseller in Aberdeen, a son and one of the executors of the deceased DAVID BISSET who resided sometime at Wedderhill in the Parish of Fetteresso or Cookney and County of Kincardine and thereafter at Fintray in the Parish of Fintray and County of Aberdeen who being solemnly sworn and examined depones That the said DAVID BISSET died at Fintray aforesaid domiciled in Scotland, upon the Twelfth day of March Eighteen hundred and ninety two leaving no widow but lawful issue surviving. That the deponent has entered upon the possession and management of the deceaseds estate as Executor nominated by him along with James Troup, Carpenter Cockley, Maryculter and Peter Davidson, Shoemaker, Blairs, Maryculter and also along with the Reverend William Selbie, Minister of the Free Church of Scotland, Maryculter (who declines to accept) in a Last Will and Testament executed by him upon the eighth day of July eighteen hundred and ninety one which is now exhibited and signed by the deponent and the said Sheriff Clerk Depute of this date as relative hereto. That the deponent does not know of any testamentary settlement or writing relative to the disposal of the deceaseds personal estate or effects or any part thereof other than the said Last?
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Last Will and Testament. That the foregoing Inventory signed by the deponent and the said Sheiff Clerk Depute as relative hereto is a full and complete Inventory of the Personal Estate or Effects of the said Deceased DAVID BISSET wheresoever situated and belonging or due to him beneficially at the time of his death in so far as the same has come to the Deponents knowledge. That the deponent does not know of any money or property belonging to the deceased secured by Scottish Bonds or other Instruments including Executors. That the said deceased had no personal property abroad. That the said deceased had no heritable estate in this country in so far as known to the deponent. That the said deceased DAVID BISSET was due and owing at the time of his death to persons resident in the United Kingdom. The debts enumerated in the foregoing schedule. That these debts are payable by law out of the state and effects comprised in the foregoing Inventory and are not nor any of them voluntary debts made payable on the death of the deceased, or debts which are primarily payable out of any real estate belonging to the deceased or debts in respect whereof a reimbursement is capable of being reclaimed from any real estate of the deceased or from any other estate or person whatsoever. That these?
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.. these debts with the funeral expenses of the said deceased are also shown in the said Schedule amount to Eighteen Pounds Sixteen Shillings. That the nett value at this date of the said personal estate and effects situated in Scotland including the proceeds accured thereon down to this date, and after deducting the amount of the said debts and funeral expenses is Three hundred and fifty pounds Sterling and does not exceed Four Hundred pounds Sterling. That Confirmation is not at present required in favour of the said Personal Estate of the deponent and the said James Troup and Peter Davidson. All which is truth as the deponent shall answer to God
(signed) James G Bisset - G B Michie SCD
Extracted by me Sheriff Clerk Depute of Aberdeenshire G B Michie
written (in so far not printed) by Alex Tawse
Collated by G M Michie.
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30th June 1892
Extract Inventory
of
The Personal Estate
of
DAVID BISSET
Testate
Amount ?417-11-1
Stamp ?8-0-0
Died:
1892 Deaths in the Parish of Fintray in the County of Aberdeen
BISSET, David retired farmer and widower of Jane Silver 1892 March Twelfth at 6.15am, male aged 84 years, Parents William Bisset, farmer, deceased, Jane Bisset M.S. Murray, deceased, cause: senile debility, Informant, Robert Crana, son-in-law.
Buried:
Stone in churchyard: Erected by David Bisset Eastside Maryculter In Memory of His Wife Jane Silver Who Died 31st of January 1875 Aged 60 years and of the said David Bisset who died at St Medden's Fintray 12th March 1892 aged 84 Years also Isabella daughter of Above who died 27th April 1900 aged 42 years
David married Jane SILVER on 5 Jun 1842 in Fetteresso, Scotland, UK. Jane (daughter of John SILVER and Helen GORDON) was born on 22 Oct 1813 in Maryculter, Kincardine, Scotland; died on 31 Jan 1875 in Eastside Farm, Maryculter, Scotland; was buried in 1875 in Maryculter Kirkyard, Maryculter, Kincardine, Scotland, UK. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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