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" A true Regyster of the churche {Holy Cross} Maryges --
1561 Willm smith Blisse
Elizabeth his wiffe the XXth of Septe"

(Elizabeth was his second wife.)

"1574 Willm. Blisse bur. ye XX of July"
"Twenty-eight days before the burial of the said daughter Joyce her father was buried.... The last testament of William Blysse, blacksmith, written the day before he died. -- {Registered at the Probate Registry, Peterborough.) Archdeaconry Court of Northampton. Liber 4, folio 230 (abstract). 19 July 1574 Willm Blysse of Daventry Northton, black smythe. Body to be buried in the churche yarde of Daventry. I doo owe as folloithe flyrst to Henrye Blisse xliiijs s xi d. To Nicolas Sherwood xxs: to Alice Deakes xii s viii d; to Lawraunce batte xiii s iiii d. Debtts owinge unto me are these...."

Children mentioned in his will:

Nicholas
William
John "1562 John Blisse baptized the second of februarye"
Jone
Anne "1573 Anne Blysse bap. ye XIX of July"
Joyce
Agness "1564 Agnes Bliss, bap. xv of March"

*George Blysse was a witness. (George Blisse, the eldest son, witnessed his father's will in 1574, but received no bequest by that instrument. He was then of legal age and self-supporting. What his father had done for him had been done before 1574.)

{The son William was the father of Thomas Blisse, the emigrant to America, cira 1638, who settled at Rehoboth, Massachusetts." p. 137)

Sons George, William and John succeeded their father at the forge in Daventry and at Staverton.

John was the father of two emigrants to America: Thomas and George.

Source: Register of Holy Cross Church, Daventry, Burial Records: Reprinted in The Bliss Book by Charles Arthur Hoppin, Hartford, Connecticut, MCMXIII.


Family links:
Spouse:
Elizabeth Blisse (____ - 1596)

Children:
George Blisse (____ - 1608)*
Nicholas Blisse (____ - 1575)*
Joyce Blisse (____ - 1574)*
Agnes Blisse (____ - 1592)*
William Bliss (1556 - ____)*
John Bliss (1562 - 1617)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial:
Holy Cross Churchyard, Daventry
Daventry
Daventry District
Northamptonshire, England

Created by: Linda
Record added: Feb 22, 2014
Find A Grave Memorial# 125492465.

Burialls 1596. Elizabeth Blisse b. ye iiij of Sept."
"Elizabeth, the second wife and widow of William Blysse, blacksmith, outlived her husband twenty-two years"

Source: Register of Holy Cross Church, Daventry, Burial Records: Reprinted in The Bliss Book by Charles Arthur Hoppin, Hartford, Connecticut, MCMXIII.

Under the terms of father's will, he John Hulins received the family house and lands at his mother's death. In 1639 he was a yeoman at Rodborough. His will dated 24 Jan 1638; it names wife Margaret and children Henry, Lawrence, John Margaret Blisse, Joane Beard, Alice Browne, Mary. The will directs that he be buried in the churchyard of Rodborough. He willed his house and lands to son Henry, on the condition that Henry pay the legacies stipulated in the will.

Ref Thomas and Margaret Hulins Bliss of Hartford,CT by Myrtle Stevens Hyde. The American Genealogist, Ovt 1976, Vol 52 pp 193-197

John's wife is given the name by many as "Margaret Lawrence" there appears to be no basis for this other that one of her sons was given the name Lawrence. See American Genealogist, Oct 1976 (v 52 No 4), pp 193-197.




Burial:
St Mary Magdalene Churchyard
Rodborough
Stroud District
Gloucestershire, England

Created by: M Cooley
Record added: Jun 10, 2013
Find A Grave Memorial# 112109814.