wife of Thomas Bliss

Not a known daughter of Anthony Lawrence, Jr.

Thomas Bliss & His wife

• Birth: circa 1560 Belstone, Devon, England
• Death: 1639 (79) Belstone, Devon, England
• Son of William Blysse and Elizabeth Bliss
• Father of Elizabeth Bliss, Mary Bliss, George Bliss, Jonathan Bliss

traditional story

After the father died, his widow lived with their daughter, whose husband, Sir John Calcliffe, was a communicant of the Church of England, in good standing. The remnant of the estate was divided among the three sons, who were advised to go to America to escape further persecution. Thomas and George feared to wait for Jonathan, who was ill in prison;, and they left England in the fall of 1635 with their families. Thomas, son of Jonathan, and grandson of Thomas Bliss, remained in England until his father died, and then he also came to America, settling near his uncle of the same name. At various times the sister of the immigrants sent to the brothers boxes of shoes, clothing and articles that could not be procured in the colonies, and it is through her letters, long preserved in the original but now lost, that knowledge of the family was handed down from generation to generation.

Disputed origins

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bliss-1

Margaret Lawrence was a made up person. Given name Margaret is known from the will of Thomas of Hartford. Lawrence was an assumption because they named a son Lawrence, but this was a common enough given name.

From http://oliveandeliza.com/boyd/bliss/thomasandmargaret.html

Thomas Bliss, despite early genealogies' claims, was not at all likely to have come from Belstone, Devon, England since there is no evidence to support these claims and Belstone is quite a considerable distance from Gloucester. Likewise, claims that he was the son of a Jonathan or Thomas Bliss of Belstone or a member of the Bliss families of Daventry and Preston Capes are unsupported by primary evidence.

I’m going ahead and detaching Thomas Bliss, Sr. as son of Thomas Bliss (Sr. in UK) & wife of Thomas Bliss

The relationship can always be reattached.

Discussion: https://www.geni.com/discussions/204518?msg=1345906