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(born 1868, Hove, Sussex) in Brighton during the 2nd Quarter of 1890 and set up home in Lewes. Alfred Marsh Bliss had took over the photographic studio at 34 Lansdown Place, Lewes (previously occupied by the Brighton firm of William Hall & Son) around 1890. The studio at 34 Lansdown Place was situated next to the ’Lansdown Arms’ public house, a short walk from Lewes Railway Station. Alfred and Ellen Bliss’s first child, a son named Alfred Edwin Marsh Bliss, was born in Lewes in 1890. Alfred Marsh Bliss, his twenty-two year old wife Ellen and baby Alfred were recorded at 34 Lansdown Place, Lewes at the time of the 1891 census. The studio at 34 Lansdown Place, Lewes was listed under the name of A. M. Bliss & Co. right through to the 1920s. Although the studio carried the name A. M. Bliss & Co., the Lansdown Place studio was not occupied by Alfred Marsh Bliss after 1902. The 1901 census shows the occupier of the Bliss Studio as James Worthington (born c1841, Fleetwood, Lancashire), who was assisted by his son Charles Worthington (born 1872, Fleetwood, Lancashire). Rendel Williams has suggested that Alfred Marsh Bliss, the original owner of the Lansdown Place studio, emigrated to Canada sometime in the 1890s. Around 1909, the photographic studio at 34 Lansdown Place, Lewes, passed into the hands of photographer John Lee Dadford (Born c1878, Preston Lancs.), but the new proprietor retained the studio name of A. M. Bliss & Co. When the 1911 census was carried out, the photographic studio at 34 Lansdown Place, Lewes, was occupied by Walter Blink Gardner ( 1850-1923), a photographer who had run his own photographic studio at 11 Lewes Road, Brighton during the early 1880s. It appears that Walter Gardner managed the Lansdowne studio while John Lee Dadford was engaged in other business ventures. At the time of the 1911 census, John Lee Dadford was residing with his wife and two daughters at 9 Shelley Terrace, Lewes. The photographic studio at 34 Lansdown Place, Lewes, was still listed under the name of A. M. Bliss & Co. in Kelly’s Directory of Sussex published in 1924. Rendel Williams believes that Alfred Marsh Bliss, the founder of the business, might have emigrated to Canada in the 1890s. The death of Alfred Marsh Bliss, was recorded in Vancouver, British Columbia on 22nd March 1928."