Thomas was the son of Anselm and Esther (Knight) Merry of Frampton on Severn. He was the grandson of Thomas and Hannah (Bailey) Merry of Wheatenhurst and Frampton on Severn, Gloucestershire. He was the great-grandson of Anselm and Joyce (_____) Bailey of Wheatenhurst. He was the great-great-grandson of John and Anne (_____) Bailey of Wheatenhurst. (2)
(1) Peter Wilson Coldham, The Bristol Registers of Servants Sent to Foreign Plantations, 1654-1686 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1988), 382.
(2) Joy Whaite, From Little Dean to Enoggera (Bellangry, Australia: J.L. Whaite, 1994), accessed 6 July 2007.