1755   JAMES SISMEY, (Grocer).

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Son of John and Jane Sismey of Thorpe by Water, later

of Liddington and Tixover, co. Rutland, and a descend, ant of William Deane, mayor in 1670 (No. 258). He was born in or about the year 1709 ; apprenticed in 1726 to Edmund Ludlam of Leic., mercer and grocer, but no record of his admission as a freeman of Leic. has been found entered on the rolls. In 1744 he was a church, warden of St. Martin's and one of the borough chamber, lains the same year; was living at Stoneygate in 1768 and later at Belgrave ; married and left numerous issue. He died at Belgrave and was interred in St. Martin's