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Facts and Events
His father is presumed to be Richard Blysse, but this is not certain.
References
- ↑ Hoppin, Charles Arthur. The Bliss book. (Hartford, Connecticut, United States: not identified, 1913)
page 132.
'William Blysse was born at Daventry, in what year no record remaineth and saith. ... The famous period of 1530-1535 was in the cycle of his nativity. ... He was first married when quite young, about 1550, and had by his first wife, before 1561, sons, George, Nicholas, and William, the daughter Joyce, and possibly Jone.'
- ↑ Hoppin, Charles Arthur. The Bliss book. (Hartford, Connecticut, United States: not identified, 1913)
page 133.
'Twenty-eight days before the burial of the said daughter Joyce her father was buried:--
1574 Willm. Blisse bur. [th]e XX of July [Register of Holy Cross Church, Daventry.]'
- ↑ Hoppin, Charles Arthur. The Bliss book. (Hartford, Connecticut, United States: not identified, 1913)
page 131.
'... William Blysse, blacksmith. We mark him as the brother of Robert Blysse of Oadby, and of Henry Blysse, the linen draper, of Daventry; and these so marked, as the three sons of Richard Blysse, Jr., of Daventry, who, in turn, was the son of Richard Blysse, Sr., of the same and brother to both Henry Blysse, the miller-mercer of 1500, and the Thomas Blysse ... of Leamington; ...'
- Hoppin, Charles Arthur. The Bliss book. (Hartford, Connecticut, United States: not identified, 1913)
pages 133-34, 137.
'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. ...
To Nicolas blysse my second sonne ...
To my sonne Willm my third sonne ...
My son John shall serve & be prentys with my sonne Nicolas ...
To my wife ...
To Jone blysse ...
To Anne my daughter ...
To Joyce my daugther ...
To Jone my dau. ...
To Agnes blisse ...
To joys blisse ...
To Agnes my daughter ...'
p. 137: '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. Whatever his father had done for him had been done before 1574.'
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