THE BISSE FAMILIES of area around Stoke Lane in Somerset The main page for the Bisse family has address: http://www.prattens.co.uk/FAMILIES/BISSE/start.html You can find items in this list by using the FIND capability in the EDIT menu above These notes were collected in hurried visits to record offices and libraries, or acquired from other researchers or on-line sources. If you use information from these notes you are strongly recommended to check the information against original sources. 1494 William Bysse senior of Sapperton Gloucestershire will 21/4/1494 mentions burial in Saperton church, wife Margery and son William. 1507 Nicholas Bysse of New sarum will proved 2/12/1507 mentions burial in St Thomas church New Sarum, unmarried daughter Dionysia, his apprentice Thomas Browne, wife and executrix Alice. 1520 Philip Bysse will dated 18/6/1519 proved 14/5/1520 mentions burial at Stoke St Michael (Stoke Lane), Richard Bisse, wife Joan, grandson James Bisse, son John senior, executors John and James. 1557 Jone Bisse widow of Trestocke will proved 3/11/1558 mentions burial at Trestocke, son Philip Bysse, daughter Denyse, Jone, John, James byse, son and executor James, overseers John Willes and water Bothe. 1567 James Bisse of Stoke St Michael will dated 3/4/1567 proved 19/8/1569 mentions burial at Stoke on left side of father and grandfather, sister Agnes Style, sister Johan Heller, brother Philip, sister Agnes Starre, children of sister Alice Clarke, nephew James Bisse, eldest son of brother John, said John living, nephew Philip Bisse of Croscombe, niece Anne unmarried, brother and executor John, witnesses Philip Bysse parson of the parish church of Batcombe and Richard Bysse his father. END