A Bisson family photo album

Bisson family album

This is an album of photographs of Bissons and related families, including Jerripedia editor Mike Bisson, his parents, grandparents and other ancestors.

It provides a fascinating insight into life in Jersey over a century from 1860 to 1960, to changes in fashion and lifestyle.

Other Jerripedia users are invited to contribute family photographs to help bring to life the pages of family history information and the history of the island as a whole.

If you have images that you can offer, please email editorial@jerripedia.org to make arrangements to supply the pictures and have them uploaded.

Mike Bisson's great-grandfather John Chevalier Bisson c1870, a tailor whose wife ran a fruit and vegetable shop at Charing Cross

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  Charles Twynam and his wife Mary Ann c1860
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  Elsa Twynam c1880
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  Don Malzard in 1880
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  Twynam sisters c1880
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  Percy Bisson c1885
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  Two pairs of brothers, Percy and Helier Bisson; Basil and Roy Bisson
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  Birdie Malzard c1890
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  Helier Bisson c1890
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  Constance Smith c1905
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  Constance Smith with bridesmaids, sisters Lily and Elsie, at her 1910 wedding to Jimmy Rimington
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  A Smith family gathering at Highfield, St Saviour c1909, photographed by Francis Foot
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  Another photograph of the Smiths at Highfield
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  The Smith/Rimington wedding, 1910
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  Lily Smith in 1910
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  The Le Cras sisters, daughters of John and Catherine, c1900
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  John Le Cras, caretaker of the Opera House c1910
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  Mrs Le Cras (nee May), wife of the Opera House caretaker c1910
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  The Malzard family outside their Rouge Bouillon home c1910
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  Peggie Bisson with her grandmother, Margaret Smith (nee Clay) 1914

Ruth Rimington’s grand 21st birthday party in November 1938

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  Olive Malzard c1915
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  Marjorie, Roy and Basil Bisson 1915
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  Peggie Rimington in 1915
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  The Rimington family with Jimmy’s motor cycle and side car in 1919
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  Rimingtons and friends on the beach at Grouville, c1920
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  Constance Smith and friend Emmie c1920
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  Rimingtons and friends at Green Island, c1920
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  Constance Rimington, Peggy and Ruth c1920
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  Constance Rimington, Peggie and Ruth c1922
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  Constance Smith and adopted daughter Doris with their children
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  Basil and Roy Bisson with Victoria College friends c1925
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  Peggie Rimington (left) and schoolfriend in Hill Street in the late 1920s
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  A Bisson family outing c1926
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  The Bisson family at Rozel c1926
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  The Bisson family car c1926

Mike Bisson in a fruit box with his father in 1951

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  The Rimingtons in 1927
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  Peggy Rimington in 1931
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  Peggy Rimington in 1935
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  Peggy Rimington at the Town Church c1935
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  Roy Bisson c 1935
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  Peggy Bisson in WAAF uniform during World War 2
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  WAAF trainees in 1939
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  Percy Bisson in Vancouver, 1940
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  Constance Rimington in the Royal Square 1940s
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  Mike Bisson with his mother in Nicaragua in 1949
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  Mike Bisson and his mother at his baptism in 1950
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  A hand-coloured photograph of Constance Smith, Roy, Peggie and Mike Bisson in 1950
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  Another Bisson family picnic in 1950
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  Helier Bisson became a senior Freemason, c 1950
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  Roy Bisson with a family car in the 1950s

Siblings Marjorie, Basil and Roy Bisson

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  Mike Bisson with his grandmother in 1951
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  Mike Bisson and teacher Florence Hacquoil at First Tower School in the 1950s
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  Julia Ann Twynam 1950s
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  Jimmy Rimington at St Helier Yacht Club in the early 1950s
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  Polyphotos were a popular commercial application in the 1950s
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  Peggy Bisson in 1960
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  Basil, Lillie and Helier Bisson
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  The Bisson family on the beach in the 1950s
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  Roy Bisson with his sons Mike and John and a family friend
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  Roy Bisson on the roof of his Nicaragua home
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  Roy Bisson during a bout of maleria
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  Roy Bisson
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  Mike Bisson and his brother John
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  Roy Bisson in Nicaragua

The first photograph of Jerripedia editor Mike Bisson in 1949

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  Roy Bisson in Nicaragua
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  John Chevalier Bisson and family
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  Brothers Basil and Roy Bisson
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  Percy Bisson
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  Mike Bisson being pushed in his pram by grandmother Constance Rimington
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  Cowboy Bisson brothers
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  Mike Bisson
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  Peggy Bisson's confirmation
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  Roy and Peggy Bisson
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  Roy and Peggy Bisson on their wedding day in Nicaragua
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  Peggy Bisson
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  Peggy Bisson

Family tree

• Bisson family tree