Sixteen-year-old Bliss was enumerated in 1881 with his widowed father and several siblings, starting with his 18-year-old twin sisters Mary and Catherine, and including the younger ones Andrew, Anna and Walter.
He was the postmaster for Hillsborough from 1913 until his death in 1942.[1]
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Bliss is enumerated as Peter B Duffy. This is the same person as Bliss Peter Duffy based on the following census, where Bliss P Duffy occurs in the same sibling constellation with his twin sisters just older than him and twins Andrew Cone Duffy and Anna Duffy just younger than him, and then the youngest sib, Walter, who was born shortly before the death of their mother in 1870.
Please note also the ages of Bliss's parents according to the census returns. They were born in the 1820s rather than the 1840s.
Thus Bliss's parents on this profile are the same people as https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Steeves-1079 and https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Duffy-3032