Ancestry of
Shirley Temple

Movie Actress

Thomas Bliss Jr.

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Shirley Temple — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 562 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Bliss 
  • Mother:
  • Margaret Snowe   
  • Birth Date:
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  • Birth Location:
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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 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth -----
  • 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.

• Sources for Thomas Bliss Jr.

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Saybrook, p. 8, Marriage record for Thomas Bliss and Elizabeth [ ].
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Saybrook, p. 8, Birth records for children of Thomas and Elizabeth Bliss.
  • ³ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1990, Vol. 7, p. 28.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 2019, Vol. 91, p. 45.
  • 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.
  • ⁹ Connecticut Society of Genealogists, The Connecticut Nutmegger, 2005, Vol. 38, p. 189.
  • ¹⁰ Huntington, E. B., A Genealogical Memoir of the Lo-Lathrop Family in this Country, Ridgefield, Connecticut: M. Huntington (1884), 47.
  • 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.