Durham Whissons

 
After origonally settling in East Anglia for many centuries the Whisson/Whissons/Whysson/Wisson & Wison clans began to move further afield.  Some in the 1901 Census were found in Merseyside (1 being Irish born), others in Nottinghamshire & Plymouth.

The Whitby brothers John & William Flaxman Whisson took their families to settle in various parts of County Durham in North East England. Some of their descendents still living in the Billingham & Eaglescliffe areas of the southern reaches of that county into the 21st Century.

Going further back Whissons were found in 17th & 18th Century Cambridgeshire.

In the same centuries, nearly 200 years before George Whisson sailed from Wells' up to Whitby a number of Whissons were recorded in the parish records, then subsequently submitted to the IGI (International Genealogical Index) for reference.

The first recorded northern Whissons found so far were a family who lived in the Bishop/West Auckland area of south west County Durham, the patriarch of Which was James Whissons.

Then on August 31st 1778 at a parish of Houghton Le Spring near Durham City the wedding of Rosanna Whisson to John Jackson was recorded.

 

James Whissons
   

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Elizabeth Mary James Jane John
chr. 3-7-1643 chr. 8-4-1647 chr. 10-10-1650 chr. 10-10-1650 chr. 3-5-1653

                        (All Christened at the Parish of St. Andrews, Auckland, County Durham.)