James Gordon BISSET

1912 - 1960  (47 years)

• Name	James Gordon BISSET
  Birth	4 Sep 1912	Strachan, Kincardineshire, Scotland, UK
  	1912 BISSET, JAMES GORDON (Statutory registers Births 268/ 9) No 9, James Gordon Bisset, 1912 September Fourth at 5.30pm at Broomhill, Strachan, male, son of James Gordon Bisset, wood merchant, and Mary Findlay Bisset, M.S.Thom, who married 1911 October 30th at Crown Court, London. Informant James Gordon Bisset, father.
  Gender	Male
  Death	2 May 1960	Banchory Devenick, Kincardine, Scotland, UK
  	James Gordon BISSET - timber merchant - married to Jean Margaret Murray Stewart - died 2nd May 1960 - about 0H 20M PM within plantation at Mill of Ardoe, Banchory Devenick - Usual residence being Drum Alan, Cults - male - aged 47 years - son of James Gordon Bisset (timber merchant) (deceased) and Mary Findlay Bisset (ms Thom) - cause of death was shot gun wound to chest - seen after death by Wm Hendry MB ChB - informant of death was Jean MM Bisset - widow - Drum Alan, Cults. from 1960 Death Certificate - RCE: page 100 - Register of Corrected Entries -for the District of Nigg and Banchory Devenick - in the County of Kincardine - the following report if result of a precognition has been recorded following the death of James Gordon Bisset registered under the Book of Death for the year 1960. James Gordon Bisset - aged 47 years - male - last seen alive about 11:55am on 2nd May 1960 - found dead about 12:30pm on same date in a plantation of young trees about 200 yards south of Mill of Ardoe in the Parish of Banchory Devenick and County of Kincardine usual residence being Drum Alan, 283, North Deeside Road, Cults, Aberdeenshire - cause of death was gunshot of left chest of contact type as certified by William Thomson Hendry MB ChB 41 Albyn Place, Aberdeen - Procurator Fiscals office, Stonehaven - May 1960. Notice Aberdeen Evening Express 04 May 1960, p10. J.G.Bisset & Son, timber merchants. Owing to the death of Mr J.Gordon Bisset, our sawmills and office will be closed during the afternoon of Thursday, 5th May, from 12 noon. 283 North Deeside Road, Cults.
  Person ID	I3178	Warren Nunn's family tree
  Last Modified	30 Oct 2012

  
  

  Father	James Gordon BISSET,   b. 10 Mar 1880, Old Machar, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK d. 19 Jan 1959, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK (Age 78 years)
  Mother	Mary Findlay THOM,   b. 1883, Old Machar, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK d. 4 Dec 1970, Inverurie, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK (Age 87 years)
  Marriage	30 Oct 1911	The Strand, London, England, UK
  	England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915 Name: James G Bisset to Mary F Thom Registration Year: 1911 Registration Quarter: Oct-Nov-Dec Registration district: Strand Parishes for this Registration District: View Ecclesiastical Parishes associated with this Registration District Inferred County: London Volume: 1b Page: 1170
  Family ID	F889	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jean Margaret Murray STEWART,   b. 8 Nov 1913, The Neuk, Moffat Rd, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland, UK d. 1 Feb 1978, Peterculter, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK (Age 64 years)
  Marriage	11 Jan 1939	St John's Episcopal Church, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
  	1939 BISSET, JAMES GORDON (Statutory registers Marriages 168/2 837) No 837, 1939 Eleventh November at St John's Episcopal Church, Aberdeen. James Gordon Bisset, aged 27, of 133 Forest Avenue, Aberdeen, son of James Gordon Bisset, timber merchant and Mary Findlay Bisset, M.S.Thom and Jean Margaret Murray Stewart, aged 26, of Royden, Cults, dau fo David Murray Stewart, treasurer publishing corporation (deceased) and Jean Gray Stewart. Witnesses: Alex Blair, 2 King's Cross Terrace, Aberdeen and Marion M.Kilgour, Drum Alan, Fordoun. Aberdeen Press and Journal 13 November 1939, p3 BISSET-STEWART Lieutenant James Gordon Bisset, Royal Corps of Signals, son of Mr and Mrs James Gordon Bisset, 133 Forest Avenue, Aberdeen, and Miss Jean Margaret Murray Stewart, daughter of the late Mr David Murray Stewart, secretary and treasurer to the Reuben Donelly Corporation, Chicago and New York, and Mrs Murray Stewart, Royden, Cults, were married quietly in St John's Episcopal Church, Aberdeen, on Saturday.
  Children	1. Living
  Family ID	F890	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	12 Jan 2026