Margaret Lawrence (abt. 1562 - 1621)

Born about 1562 in Olueskirk, Lancashire, England [uncertain]

Died 1621 at about age 59 in Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts

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This non-existent person is being maintained by the Puritan Great Migration Project because of the long standing belief that Thomas Bliss of Hartford had a wife named Margaret Lawrence.

Biography

Margaret Lawrence was not the wife of Thomas Bliss.

Thomas Bliss left England and settled in Hartford, Connecticut. He had a wife Margaret. There never was a significant reason to assume she was Margaret Lawrence, only the name of a son. None of the major treatments of Thomas Bliss called her anything but Margaret ____.

• Margaret _____ :Genealogy of the Bliss family in America (1881) ^[1]
• "Thomas Bliss, blacksmith, and is wife, Margaret. Her maiden name we have completely failed to find. The fact that one of her sons was named Lawrence has no significance. This was a very common name in Northants."^[2] The fact that Hoppin mentions it indicates that maybe it was already in use in 1913.
• Several noted genealogists, Donald Lines Jacobus,^[3][4] Mary (Lovering) Homan,^[5] and Mary Walton Ferris,^[6] call her Margaret ____.

The real proof, that she was not a Margaret Lawrence, were the discoveries of a baptismal record for Nathaniel in Gloucestireshire, the will of John Hulins who made a bequest to his daughter Margaret Blisse ^[7] and the subsequent location of a marriage record for Margaret Hulings and Thomas Bliss, in Gloucester, Gloucestershire. ^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ Bliss, John Homer. Genealogy of the Bliss family in America, from about the year 1550-1880. (Boston, Mass., Printed by the author, 1881) p. 29
2. ↑ Hoppin, Charles Arthur. The Bliss book : a romantic history of the Bliss family from the time of its beginning in England, to its advent into America ... (Hartford, Conn. : Priv. print. 1913)p. 1515
3. ↑ Jacobus, Donald Lines, The Granberry Family and Allied Families (Hartford: E. F. Waterman, 1945) p. 173
4. ↑ Jacobus, Donald Lines, et al., Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley (Hartford: Connecticut Historical Society, 1952) p. 476
5. ↑ Holman, Mary (Lovering), Ancestry of Col. John Harrington Stevens and His Wife Frances Helen Miller, 2 vols. (Concord, N.H.: Rumford Press, 1948–52); also Torrey, C.A., “Notes and Corrections to Stevens-Miller Genealogy (1948),” typescript (n.p., 1949) p. 345
6. ↑ Ferris, Mary Walton, Dawes-Gates Ances-tral Lines: A Memorial Volume, 2 vols. (Milwaukee: privately printed, 1931–43) p. 123
7. ↑ Hyde, Myrtle Stevens. "Thomas and Margaret Hulins Bliss of Hartford, Connecticut." TAG 52:193-197 (1976)
8. ↑ Hyde, Myrtle Stevens. "The Marriage of Thomas Bliss and Margaret Hulins" TAG 60:202 (1984)

• Kelley, Hermon Alfred. A Genealogical History of the Kelley Family (Cleveland, Ohio, 1897) Page 14 NOTE: The text of this book conflates the Braintree and Hartford men, and incorrectly names his wife Margaret Lawrence
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