William Blysse Jr. 1
- Born: 1562, Daventry, Daventry District, Northamptonshire, England
- Died: Daventry, Daventry District, Northamptonshire, England
General Notes:
"George, William, and John Blysse succeeded their father at the forge in Daventry and at Staverton."
"William Blisse, Jun. (William, Richard, Richard), of Daventry, brother of George Bliss, Sen., of the same and of John Blisse of Preston Capes, and third son of William Blysee, blacksmith of Daventry who died in 1574, was born circa 1556-58. He received by his father's will 'all my tooles and all things that p'tayne to my forge at Daventry.' He married shortly after the death of his father, and before 1580. If the marriage occurred at Daventry no record of it was entered in the register of the church in either that or in any other of the sixteen towns adjacent to Daventry, in so far as it is now possible to determine....Thomas Blisse, son of William Jun., named his secondand third daughters also Mary and Jane....."
William Jun. had a son William:
"1580 Willm Blisse bap. yet vth of June." This William did not leave England as his brother Thomas did."
Source: Register of Holy Cross Church, Daventry, Records: Reprinted in The Bliss Book by Charles Arthur Hoppin, Hartford, Connecticut, MCMXIII pp. 155 to 169. 1
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