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Shirley Temple

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Shirley Temple

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    Thomas Bliss Jr.

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    • 7th Great-grandfather of Shirley Temple — 10th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 562 
    • Birth Date:
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    • Christening Date:
    • 23 Jan 1617/1618 
    • Christening Location:
    • St. John the Baptist Church, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England 
    • Death Date:
    • 15 Apr 1688 
    • Death Location:
    • Norwich, New London, Connecticut 
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    • Marriage Date:
    • ABT 30 Oct 1644 
    • Marriage Location:
    • Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut 
    • Children:

    • Elizabeth Bliss

      Mary Bliss

      Samuel Bliss

      Rebecca Bliss (Ahnentafel No:281 )

    • Notes: 
    • There is some disagreement as to whether or not Thomas Bliss was the son of his father's wife Margaret, or a possible unknown earlier wife.

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  • Sources for Thomas Bliss Jr.

    • 3 NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1990, Vol. 7, p. 28.
    • 5 Bliss, Aaron Tyler, Genealogy of the Bliss Family in America, Vol. 1, Midland, Michigan: Published by the Author (1982), 30, 39-41.
    • 6 Bliss, John Homer, Genealogy of the Bliss Family in America, From About the Year 1550-1880, Boston, Massachusetts: Printed by the Author (1881), 31, 34-35.
    • 7 Calkins, Kenneth W., ed., Calkins Family in America, Golden, Colorado: Calkins Family Association (2000), 8.
    • 8 Cleveland, Edmund Janes and Horace Gillette Cleveland, The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families: An Attempt to Track in Both the Male and the Female . . ., Vol. 1, Hartford, Connecticut: The Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company (1899), 219.
    • 11 Jacobus, Donald Lines and Edgar Francis Waterman, Hale, House and Related Families: Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1978, reprinted from 1952), 479.