notes on Lissett family history

( book notes )

Leycett   Hamlet near Stoke: Levershede 1474, Lysot 1475. Lycett was a common family name in the area.

Lissett   Hamlet near Bridlington: Lessete 1086, Lyssett 1561, Lissitt 1650; "Dwelling near the pasture".

"In LISSETT, Ulf had 3 carucates of land to the geld, and there could be 12 ploughs. ..." (Domesday Book: A complete translation, 2002, p.838)  

Lysaght   Lysaght, MacLysaght of County Clare: anglicised and distorted from the Gaelic Mac Giolla Iasachta.

Lizotte   Lizet, Lizot, Lizotte, Liset: désignait un ver qui ronge les bourgeons de la vigne. Le sens de cen nom est obscur.

How do you spell that name?
 

Where were they from?

Letters

Welney, CAM: 1859 March 1

Flint, MI: 1861 June 16