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Annie's name is recorded as Annie Clissold Abbot at her marriage to Robert Bessey. She married Robert Bessey on Valentine's Day 1903. (Robert's mother's name is clarified here as Hubbard). George Cliss...
"Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925," database with images, FamilySearch ( : 4 December 2014), Robert B. Bessey and Georgia Harris Woodruff, 26 Oct 1881; citing Jackson, Jackson, Michigan, v 2 p 60 rn 638, ...
First wife of Robert B. Bessey.The 1870 census for Montcalm, Douglas, Michigan states Mary is the wife of Robert and the mother of Vernon and Lattie."United States Census, 1870," database with images, ...
I was told the name was originally French and meant 'from the Birch Woods'. At some point they went to England for a few generations before Anthony Besse came to the Plymouth, MA colony c1635.
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