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.
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Charles Twynam and his wife Mary Ann c1860
Elsa Twynam c1880
Don Malzard in 1880
Twynam sisters c1880
Percy Bisson c1885
Two pairs of brothers, Percy and Helier Bisson; Basil and Roy Bisson
Birdie Malzard c1890
Helier Bisson c1890
Constance Smith c1905
Constance Smith with bridesmaids, sisters Lily and Elsie, at her 1910 wedding to Jimmy Rimington
A Smith family gathering at Highfield, St Saviour c1909, photographed by Francis Foot
Another photograph of the Smiths at Highfield
The Smith/Rimington wedding, 1910
Lily Smith in 1910
The Le Cras sisters, daughters of John and Catherine, c1900
John Le Cras, caretaker of the Opera House c1910
Mrs Le Cras (nee May), wife of the Opera House caretaker c1910
The Malzard family outside their Rouge Bouillon home c1910
Peggie Bisson with her grandmother, Margaret Smith (nee Clay) 1914
Olive Malzard c1915
Marjorie, Roy and Basil Bisson 1915
Peggie Rimington in 1915
The Rimington family with Jimmy’s motor cycle and side car in 1919
Rimingtons and friends on the beach at Grouville, c1920
Constance Smith and friend Emmie c1920
Rimingtons and friends at Green Island, c1920
Constance Rimington, Peggy and Ruth c1920
Constance Rimington, Peggie and Ruth c1922
Constance Smith and adopted daughter Doris with their children
Basil and Roy Bisson with Victoria College friends c1925
Peggie Rimington (left) and schoolfriend in Hill Street in the late 1920s
A Bisson family outing c1926
The Bisson family at Rozel c1926
The Bisson family car c1926
The Rimingtons in 1927
Peggy Rimington in 1931
Peggy Rimington in 1935
Peggy Rimington at the Town Church c1935
Roy Bisson c 1935
Peggy Bisson in WAAF uniform during World War 2
WAAF trainees in 1939
Percy Bisson in Vancouver, 1940
Constance Rimington in the Royal Square 1940s
Mike Bisson with his mother in Nicaragua in 1949
Mike Bisson and his mother at his baptism in 1950
A hand-coloured photograph of Constance Smith, Roy, Peggie and Mike Bisson in 1950
Another Bisson family picnic in 1950
Helier Bisson became a senior Freemason, c 1950
Roy Bisson with a family car in the 1950s
Mike Bisson with his grandmother in 1951
Mike Bisson and teacher Florence Hacquoil at First Tower School in the 1950s
Julia Ann Twynam 1950s
Jimmy Rimington at St Helier Yacht Club in the early 1950s
Polyphotos were a popular commercial application in the 1950s
Peggy Bisson in 1960
Basil, Lillie and Helier Bisson
The Bisson family on the beach in the 1950s
Roy Bisson with his sons Mike and John and a family friend
Roy Bisson on the roof of his Nicaragua home
Roy Bisson during a bout of maleria
Roy Bisson
Mike Bisson and his brother John
Roy Bisson in Nicaragua
Roy Bisson in Nicaragua
John Chevalier Bisson and family
Brothers Basil and Roy Bisson
Percy Bisson
Mike Bisson being pushed in his pram by grandmother Constance Rimington
Cowboy Bisson brothers
Mike Bisson
Peggy Bisson's confirmation
Roy and Peggy Bisson
Roy and Peggy Bisson on their wedding day in Nicaragua
Peggy Bisson
Peggy Bisson
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