Elizabeth Weldon

1786 - 1868  (82 years)

• Name	Elizabeth Weldon
  Birth	1786	Chapel Grove, New Brunswick, Canada
  Gender	Female
  UID	20AF5D1511F843C3BA1745D4377507B19E82
  Death	20 Oct 1868	Chapel Grove, New Brunswick, Canada aka Whitehead, NB
  Person ID	I1215537044	King-Gurnett Family Tree
  Last Modified	1 Jul 2025

  
  

  Father	Patrick Weldon,   b. 1755   d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	Elizabeth Whelpley,   b. 1767, Unknown d. 13 Jun 1786, New Brunswick, Canada (Age 19 years)
  Family ID	F704	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	William Bissett,   b. 4 Apr 1771, Eastwood, Renfrew, Scotland d. 20 Mar 1849, Kingston, Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada (Age 77 years)
  Marriage	29 Mar 1804	Waterborough, Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada
  Children	+ 1. Andrew Bissett,   b. 1814, Carter Point, Kingston Peninsula, Kings, New Brunswick, Canada d. 14 May 1892, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada (Age 78 years)
  Family ID	F698	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Jul 2025

  
  

• Notes

  An adopted daughter of William Bissett's mother (Mrs. Bissett/Fitzgerald). Both of Waterbury, Queens Co. She is listed as widow age 62 in 1851 census. ELIZABETH WELDON BISSETT Elizabeth Weldon Bissett is age 61, a widow, in the 1851 census. J. Smith also notes in a footnote with the census information - Betsy Eliz. Weldon (Irish?), an adopted daughter of his mother (Mrs. Bissett/Fitzgerald). Both of Waterbury (Waterborough?), Queens Co. ** bhb - I assume that the BOTH is Elizabeth Weldon and her adopted mother. No mention of Mr. Fitzgerald. P.M. Toner's "An Index to Irish Immigrants in the 1851 New Brunswick Census" has the following entry: Bisset-Elizabeth, date of entry (blank), age 62, religion Bapt, N.B. location is Kingston. This would make Elizabeth Weldon Bissett born in 1790. J. Smith lists Elizabeth Weldon marriage date to William Bissett as March 29, 1804. This would make her 14/15/16. Her last recorded child is in 1837 when she would have been 46/47/48. Elizabeth Weldon Bissett lived in Waterbury (Waterborough), Queens Co. New Brunswick with Mrs. Bissett/Fitzgerald. She later moved to Chapel Grove, Kings Co., New Brunswick. Chapel Grove is also known as Whitehead. Elizabeth Weldon born 1790 and subsequent adopted by Mrs. Bissett/Fitzgerald. Both lived in Waterborough, Queens, Co., NB on the east side of Grand Lake. No further mention of Mr. Fitzgerald. Marries William Bissett in 1804 (assume at Waterborough). Thomas Bissett born 1805 - marries Mary Ann Russell in 1832 - died 1878 William Harding Bissett born 1808 - marries and lives in Dorchester, N.B. by 1838. Elizabeth Weldon Bissett moves to Chapel Grove, Kings. Co., NB by 1837. Elizabeth Weldon Bissett a widow by 1851 age 61. Thomas Bissett born 1805 had a number of children among them Thomas Vickery Bissett born in 1835 and Mary Ann Bissett Barbour born 1839. Thomas Vickery Bissett had a son Edward - born 1864 and died 1938. Edward was the last Bissett to live on the Chapel Grove property. Mary Ann Bissett Barbour also had a home on the Chapel Grove land. So the Chapel Grove property falls into Thomas Bissett's line. Mary Ann is the source of one of the family histories. Our other source is Alberta May Bissett born 1862 in Dorchester, NB. She is the daughter of William Harding Bissett who moves to Dorchester in 1838. Elizabeth Weldon Bissett would have been 48 years old. You will note that Alberta May was born 11 years AFTER the census of 1851 and lived her early life in Dorchester, NB. She has no first hand information like Mary Ann who was 12 in 1851 when Elizabeth Weldon was still alive. In fact it would be almost 25 years after the census of 1851, before Mary Ann at age 13 or 14 would have begun to know the family history. Being the youngest child, her father would be around age 70. William Harding Bissett died at age 82 when Alberta May was 28. By the very nature of these facts, Alberta May's account cannot be taken as the truth. However, I'm sure that it contains a grain of truth. The two independent genealogies both knew this generation and both list a Benjamin and 2nd Benjamin. The first drowned on the Kennebecasis River while skating. The second drowned on a fishing trip out of Gloucester, MA. (With the first dying on the Kennebecasis River - this puts them at Chapel Grove not Grand Lake at the time of Benjamin I death.) The 1851 Census of Kings County lists Elizabeth Bissett living there with her daughter Harriett and son Benjamin. She is listed as a Loyalist, 62 years old and British from birth. Her occupation is Prop.