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Lucille Ball

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Lucille Ball

TV Actress - “I Love Lucy”


    Samuel Bliss

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    • 7th Great-grandfather of Lucille Ball — 10th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 694 
    • Birth Date:
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    • Birth Location:
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    • Christening Date:
    • 4 Feb 1637/1638 
    • Christening Location:
    • St. Mary de Crypt, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England 
    • Death Date:
    • 23 Mar 1719/1720 
    • Death Location:
    • Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts 
    • Burial Date:
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    • Burial Location:
    • Springfield Cemetery, Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts 
    • Marriage Date:
    • 10 Nov 1665 
    • Marriage Location:
    • Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts 
    • Children:

    • Hannah Bliss

      Thomas Bliss

      Sarah Bliss

      Mercy Bliss

      Ebenezer Bliss

      Margaret Bliss (Ahnentafel No:347 )

      Esther Bliss

    • Notes: 
    • Although Samuel Bliss's age was recorded as 96 at his death in 1720, some sources claim this is unlikely and that he was born about 1642 based on circumstantial evidence.

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  • Sources for Samuel Bliss

    • 4 Springfield, MA: Vital Records to 1850, Vol. 3, p. 2133, Cemetery inscription for Samuel Bliss.
    • 5 Springfield, MA: Vital Records to 1850, Vol. 1, p. 128, Death record for Samuel Bliss.
    • 6 Springfield, MA: Vital Records to 1850, Vol. 2, p. 1675, Birth record for daughter Margaret Bliss.
    • 7 Springfield, MA: Vital Records to 1850, Vol. 1, p. 22, Marriage record for Samuel Bliss and Mary Leonard.
    • 9 Barbour, Lucius Barnes, Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut, Baltimore, Maryland: Reprinted for Clearfield Co., Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co. (2001), 544-545.
    • 10 Beach, Moses S. and Rev. William Ely, The Ely Ancestry: Lineage of Richard Ely of Plymouth, England, Who Came to Boston, Mass., About 1655 . . ., New York: The Calumet Press (1902), 185.
    • 11 Bliss, Aaron Tyler, Genealogy of the Bliss Family in America, Vol. 1, Midland, Michigan: Published by the Author (1982), 32, 43-44.
    • 12 Bliss, John Homer, Genealogy of the Bliss Family in America, From About the Year 1550-1880, Boston, Massachusetts: Printed by the Author (1881), 31, 37.
    • 13 Bowen, Harold King, American Ancestry: American Ancestors of Barbara Evelyn Bowen, Osceola, Missouri: H. K. Bowen (1944), 3.
    • 15 Ely, Heman, Records of the Descendants of Nathaniel Ely, The Emigrant, Who Settled First in Newtown, now Cambridge, Mass., Cleveland, Ohio: Short and Forman, Printers and Stationers (1885), 10.
    • 16 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), 480.
    • 17 Reynolds, Cuyler, ed., Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York and the Hudson River Valley, Vol. 3, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1914), 1221.
    • 19 Webster, William Holcomb and Rev. Melville Reuben Webster, History and Genealogy of the Gov. John Webster Family of Connecticut: With Numerous Portraits and Illustrations, Rochester, New York: E. R. Andrews Printing Company (1915), 39.