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The Cessna family name is a derivative of the Sisney surname. The Cessna name developed in American as an altrenative spelling of Sisney, along with the development of several other variations of the Sisney name: for example, Cisney, Cisna, Cissna, Cissne, Cisne--to list a few. The following verfiable facts support this inescapable conclusion:
Cessna family researchers have tried unsuccessfully for decades to find a connectin of the Cessna name to a country in Europe. Absolutely no record has been found lining the Cessnas in America to a country or to persons of record in a European country. There is a simple reason :no record exists in Europe because Cessna originated in America as an alternative way of spelling Sisney. Genealogical Cessna researchers were looking for the wrong name: they should have been looking for a record of Sisneys from which Cessna is derived.
Records exist clearly linking the Sisney surname to Ireland, England, and other European countries. It is virtually impossible that the existence of people with the name Sisney would exist in multliple places as a coincidence or as a random accident. Likewise, it is impossible that the surname Sisney originated in America and then returned to show up in different places and contexts in Europe. Obvious conclusion is that the name Sisney originated in Europe-not as a derivative of the name Cessna.
Records in pioneer Pennsylvania support this inescapable conclusion. The name Sisney was regularly misspelled, recorded incorrectly in a vaiety of documents and places in pioneer days. Recorded versions of Cesna and cessna occur consistently for Sisneys as do Cisney, Cissne, Cisne, Cisna, Cissna, and Sisna. If you check the PA Archives you will see the same person on the same land recorded these various ways. It is inevitable that Cessna would become a derivative of the name Sisney--which preceded the name Cessna in Europe. Clearly in early PA Cessna was a common and accepted version of the name Sisney.
At some point in time, the Cessna spelling became a permanet and accepted way of writing Sisney. Other variations such as Cisney and Cissna evolved the same way.
A good example is the Rober Sisney of Muhlenberg Co., Kentucky, who died about 1815. For 20 years before his death, his name was consistently reocrded as Sisney, sissney, or Cisnae. Usually Sisney on important documetns like land documents. Yet after his death, his illerate widow and minor children began using the name Cessna--although they had many families with the name Cisney living in close proximity and even the town Cisney settled by earlier Cisney pioneers.
Anotehr intersting indicatior is the statement of a Cessna family researcher who contacted me to thank me for my research. He stated that he had grouwn up with a cessna family who spelled the name C-e-s-s-n-a but pronounced it Sisney.
If you have facts relevant to the above please share them. But please spare me the hysterical generalization that often go with people caught up in this stuff. I'm looking for facts-verifiable facts-or sound logic supported by facts. The Cessnas think they are Frency. They are not. They are Irish, perhaps Irish who migrated to Ireland from England.
Thanks and best regards,
Lee Sisney
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