Robert Wissett of Stepney proposed Society for Constitutional Information 14.3.1783 by John Satchell 2nded Edward Hall
His father Thomas Wissett = St Michael Cornhill 1.8.1748 Ann Wildman, their last child bapt at Bermondsey 1756 / Thomas Wissett smith of Bermondsey widower = Elizabeth Bradshawe widow marr lic 19.10.1757 / Thomas Wissett voted on his own freehold in Bermondsey for Mawbey 1775, Mawbey & Keppel 1780 / Thomas Wissett of Bethnal Green buried 6.1.1791 St Dunstan Stepney died of fever age 67 / Robert son of Thomas & Ann Wissart, smith of Stone Bridge born 13.11.1751 bapt 16.11.1751 Bermondsey St Mary Mag / record of his first marriage not found / Mary dau of Robert Wisset gent of Bermondsey Street & Mary bapt 23.5.1770 Bermondsey / Ann dau of Robert & Mary Wissett bapt 28.8.1774 Whitechapel, Elizabeth dau of the same bapt there 1776 / Robert son of Robert Wissett gent of Mile End Old Town & Mary bapt 1778 at St Dunstan Stepney, Thomas son of the same bapt there 4.1.1781 / SunFire 1788 Robert Wissett gent Prospect Row nr Waterworks, Mile End / SunFire 1793 Robert Wissett gent 42 Crutched Friars & 19 Patriot Sq, Bethnal Green, 1794 in trust for Anna Maria wife of William Smallwood / Robert Wissett established clerk East India Company buying warehouses 1771-1815 / Robert Wissett of East India Company correspondence with Sir Joseph Banks 1788-1814 / Robert Wissett of India House, Society for Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce 1790-96 / York Herald 30.4.1808 ad for Complete Treatise on Hemp by Robert Wissett Esq / Holdens Directory 1811 Robert Wissett, Forest Hill, Kent / Robert Wissett wid = Lewisham 27.7.1816 Ann Bennett sp by lic / Bury & Norwich Post 13.12.1820 at his house in Forest Hill nr Peckham in his 70th year died Robert Wissett esq FRS, FAS, formerly of India House / Bristol Mercury 16.12.1820 died Robert Wissett age 70, JP for Surrey / Robert Wissett buried 11.12.1820 Lewisham age 69 from Forest Hill / his will PCC 1821 Lewisham listed children by first wife 1) Mary spinster 2) Ann who died 28.11.1815 late wife of John Robertson leaving children Margaret, Ann, Mary & Sarah 3) Elizabeth wife of Gilson Reeve (they married St Giles Cripplegate 1799 and he was buried there1816 of Crutched Friars) 4) Thomas deceased late of Ganjam in East Indies (bur 12.12.1806 Ganjam) & his children Charles Robert & Mary who came to live with their grandfather 5) Sarah Golding now wife of William Hesketh 6) Frances Sophia widow of Capt Daniel Bousfield, and 7) by his 2nd wife, Rebecca wife of Charles Richardson. She was presumably born while his first wife was still living, as Rebecca Wissett dau of Robert Bennet clerk & Ann was baptised at St Giles Cripplegate on 23.2.1803 and Rebecca Wissett married Charles Richardson at Lewisham 9.9.1820