::I realize you all must consider me crazy or psychotically devoted trying to do this when I am sick and in possibly hopeless circumstances, and that you probably are not even interested. Likely it means nothing to you. But when I started I made some promises, and have made more since then, and the challenge has been a factor because this has turned out to be a very difficult project, as I suspected it might be from the beginning. So whatever some of you may think of it all I am enjoying the accomplishment as well as the connection. We are looking pretty stellar here and getting better... but I do confess that the small chance it may mean something to someone I love, if only a little, is why it exists in the first place. There is the (unlikely) possibility she is not a descendant of this family or of their kin in Scotland, but the other research I have seen out there, however professional looking, is poorly informed. I would research her other background, more important to her, but that has been taken care of by others and she appears to know more about it herself, and I would be out of my element there anyway. However difficult, this article I can do, knowing some of my sources already from other research, and being related in different ways to many of the people the Bissetts came in contact with. This last fact has been a fucking delight! Although I feel bad being a descendant of Gerald Mór FitzGerald, who may have been as much responsible for ruining this enigmatic family as the MacDonnells. Even after Knockavoe they might have been able to stand up to Alexander Carragh if they were in better condition, but FitzGerald gave them a horrible thrashing... and for no reason given whatsoever. Maybe he just felt like it. Maybe the O'Neills were frustrating him and the Bissetts, having the misfortune of living nearby, were not expecting anything like that to come their way. Then trying to build back up by joining O'Neill's expeditions they meet with more unexpected misfortune and it finishes them. I can feel that deeply. Nothing went their way in the end and they were powerless, then sank into oblivion. Some of them probably wandered and drank themselves to death. They were valiant people.