Ancestry of
Rainn Wilson

TV and Movie Actor

John Bissell

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• • 11th Great-grandfather of Rainn Wilson — 14th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 13804 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1591 
  • Birth Location:
  • England 
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  • Death Date:
  • 3 Oct 1677 
  • Death Location:
  • Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Palisado Cemetery, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 
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  John Bissell

  Thomas Bissell

  Samuel Bissell (Ahnentafel No:6902 )

  Nathaniel Bissell

  Joyce Bissell

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  • Claims that one of John Bissell's wives was Mary Drake or Elizabeth Thompson are unproven. Mary Drake may have been confused with his daughter Mary who married Jacob Drake.

• Sources for John Bissell

  • ¹ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 31.
  • ² Connecticut Society of Genealogists, The Connecticut Nutmegger, 1996, Vol. 29, pp. 196-200.

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