My name is HELENA GRACE BLOMFIELD,I am a Great Grand Daughter of HENRY BLOMFIELD 1871 and ELIZABETH
ALDRIDGE 1822, HASTINGS ENGLAND. I have always been curious about my BLOMFIELD PEDIGREE so decided to search the Internet for our BLOMFIELD History I am not a genealogist but will put online any information re BLONDEVILLE-BLOMFIELD- History I find for other BLOMFIELD RESEARCHERS. After posting on THE HASTINGS WEBSITE THE WEBMASTER,alerted his friend who turned out to be a direct descendant, PETER BLOMFIELD, GREAT GREAT GRANDSON OF HENRY AND ELIZABETHBLOMFIELD,one cousin found!. Peter kindly put me in touch with another cousin, JOHNNY BLOMFIELD, UK who was to my delight in the process of compiling the BLOMFIELD FAMILY TREE!then it was onto another cousin, PADDY BLOMFIELD- AUSTRALIA,then to U.S.A. and LAURENCE GILLINGHAM , then to JAMAICA, CHARLOTTE GOODBODY,and NEW ZEALAND, GAIL CAUKWELL Many heart felt thanks go to my dear Cousin Johnny Blomfield of Cheshire UK, who has kept me in the loop, supplying beautiful Blomfield family photos and data for this site, and to CHARLES BLOMFIELD, CANADA who so very kindly sent me a copy of his Father, CHARLES W.J. BLOMFIELD'S book,
' A REVISION OF THE BLOMFIELD PEDIGREE 1190 to 1981 updated by his son William G.C. Blomfield.
Thanks to Michael Wood for his invaluable contribution.
My line of BLOMFIELDS are in the book,
'BLOMFIELD- A SUFFOLK FAMLILY' by Reginald Blomfield 1916 .Our line comes through BLOMFIELD OF MICKFIELD, one Henry Blomfield who purchased land in Debenham called STONHAM-FIELD and built his home there. But still more good news, we can now trace our Blomfield/Bloomfield family roots way back to the Time of HENRY TUDOR, to one JOHN BLOOMFIELD OF BURY ST EDMUNDS 1488 and his wife Anne. Most of this data can be downloaded from the Mormon Genealogy site for free.
THE ORIGIN OF OUR MANY BLOMFIELD-BLOOMFIELD ETC., NAMES
"QUARTERLY PER FESS INDENTED OR AND AZURE OVER ALL A BEND GULES"
OUR MOTTO: FORTES FORTUNA JUVAT:FORUNE FAVOURS THE BOLD.
OUR CREST IS A LOZENGE WITH WINGS BOTH BEING DERIVED FROM ARMS OF THE BARONY OF RYE- NORMANDY.
NAMES ORIGINATING FROM THE PARENT NAME OF BLONVILE, ARE MANY, AND VARIED, FOR WHEN BIRTH MARRIAGE AND DEATH CERTIFICATES WERE MADE, THEY WERE ONLY AS GOOD AS THE EDUCATION OF THE CLERK ISSUING THE DOCUMENTATION. THUS A MR BLOOMFIELD'S WIFE OR CHILDREN, COULD AND WERE PUT DOWN AS BLOOMFIELD, OR SIMILIAR, WHICH HAPPENED QUITE FREQUENTLY AS IS SHOWN IN THE BIRTH MARRIAGE AND DEATH CERTIFICATION.THIS IN TURN HAS MADE THE TASK OF GENEALOGISTS THAT MORE DIFFICULT IN TRACING THE ANCESTORS.
HERE ARE SOME ILLUSTRIOUS BLOMFIELD/BLOOMFIELDS etc.,.
RADULPHUS BLOMFIELD....................140?
RECTOR OF ASHBY...........................1506
RICHARD BLOMFIELD.................... 160?-1705
POET.
FRANCES BLOMFIELD................. .. 1705-1752.
ANTIQUARY-TOPOGRAPHER.
MAJOR GENERAL-SIR THOMAS BLOMFIELD....... 1744-1822.
1ST BARONET MAJOR GENERAL.
MAJOR JOHN COLPOYS BLOOMFIELD-CADWELL-......17?
BLOOMFIELD-CADWELL CASTLE IRE.
ROBERT BLOMFIELD.....................1766-1881.POET.
BENJAMIN BLOOMFIELD.................. 1788-1881.
1ST BARON BLOOMFIELD LIEUTENANT GENERAL.
CHARLES JAMES BLOMFIELD........... ... 1786-1857
BISHOP OF LONDON.
JOHN COLPOYS BLOMFIELD............. .. 1788-1881
HIGH SHERRIF OF CO FERMANAHG..
JOHN BLOOMFIELD-CADWELL................18?18?
FOUNDER OF BELLEEK POTTERY.
LEONARD BLOMFIELD.....................1800-1893.
NATURALIST.
JOHN AUTHUR BLOOMFIELD................1802-1879
2ND BARON BLOMFIELD-DIPLOMAT.
JAMES CHARLES BLOMFIELD............. ..1824-1895.
RECTOR OF LAUNTON-ANTIQUARY.
JOHN BLOMFIELD.......................1824-1908
CHAPLIN TO THE BISHOP CALCUTTA AND RECTOR OF PEASLY.
EDWIN NEWSON BLOOMFIELD.............. 1827-1914
RECTOR OF GUESTLING-BOTANIST.
CHARLES GEORGE BLOMFIELD.......... .. 1828-1867
SUPERINTENDANT OF POLICE-MADRAS.
SIR ARTHUR WILLIAM BLOMFIELD.......... 1829-1899
KNIGHT ARCHITECT.
GEORGE BLOOMFIELD.................... 1831-
POET.
DOROTHY FRANCES BLOMFIELD-GUENEY........1852-1933
POETESS.
CHARLES JAMES BLOMFIELD............. . 1855-1928.
MAJOR GENERAL.
SIR REGINALD THEODORE BLOMFIED........ 1856-1942.
KNIGHT ARCHITECT.
CHARLES BLOMFIELD...................1848-1926
ARTIST ( ONE OF OUR N.Z. BRANCH)
BLOMFIELD JOSEPH....................1800S?
FOUNDER WITH MR BEAR OF THE BRITANNIA SEWING MACHINE COMPANY-LONDON......................1866
BLOMFIELD "LOFTY"MEYNELL.............
(ONE OF OUR N.Z.BRANCH-WRESTLER)
NOTABLE BLOMFIELDS
BOOKS OF INTEREST TO BLOMFIELD RESEARCHERS:
" A SUVFFOLK FAMILY"-SIR REGINALD BLOMFIELD-$17-00 US
"CHARLES BLOMFIELD, HIS LIFE AND TIMES"-MURIEL WILLIAMS $130-00 NZ.THESE TWO BOOKS CAN BE BOUGHT FROM AMAZON BOOKS OR TUTTLEBOOKS-USA"STORY OF FINMERE"-J.C.BLOMFIELD,RECTOR OF LAUNTON.THIS FREE BOOK MAY BE DOWNLOADED FROM-FINMERE & HISORICIALSOCIETY-FINMERE.UK.
BLOMFIELD HOUSE IN RUSSELL NZ., WAS PURCHASED BY THE CROWN IN 1980 AND RELOCATED TO ANOTHER SITE. EVACUATION OF THIS HISTORIC SITE WAS BEGUN IN 2000, RUSSELL WAS THE FIRST EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT IN NEW ZEALAND IN THE EARLY 1800'S.THE SETTLEMENT OF THE KORORAREKA WATERFRONT( RUSSELL) WAS A MAJOR RESORT FOR THE WHALERS AND A THRIVING NOISY CENTER OF TAVERN KEEPERS AND TRADERS.THE LAND AROUND THIS AREA HAS REMAINED LARGELY UNDEVELOPED SINCE THE 19TH CENTURY SO THE DEPT., OF CONSERVATION IS INVESTIGATING THIS BLOMFIELD PROPERTY WITH MUCH ANTICAPATION OF FINDING A LARGE COLLECTION OF EARLY HISTORIC BITS AND PIECES FROM THIS VERY EARLY LARGELY UNTOUCHED AREA. THIS WILL GIVE INSIGHT AS TO THE DAILY LIVES OF OUR FIRST EARLY SETTLERS TO THESE SHORES.
THE BEAUTIFUL CHURCH OF ST MARTIN IN THE FIELDS-UK-WHERE MY GREAT, GREAT,GRANDFATHER AND GRANDMOTHER WERE MARRIED.ALSO THE PLACE OF MANY OTHER BLOMFIELD, BLOOMFIELDMARRIAGES AND CHRISTENINGS.
A BLACK SHEEP IN THE BLOMFIELD SAGA:JAMES BLOMFIELD RUSH,ILLEGITIMATE SON OF MARY BLOOMFIELD, BAPTISED TACOLNESTON CHURCH-UK-10-01-1800.MARY'S FATHER WAS JAMES BLOOMFIELD, TENNANT FARMER, TACOLNEST.JAMES BLOMFIELD RUSH: WAS EXECUTED FOR THE MURDERS OF TWO MEMBERS OF STANFORD HALL-NORFOLK UK,1848.
BLUMFIELD/BLOMFIELD JOHN-1792-LANHAM-SUFOLK,MARRIED:BANTOCK ANNE ELIZABETH IN 1813 AT BRETTENHAM SUFFOLK.JOHN ND ELIZABETH WERE LIVING IN MONKS ELEIGH AT THE TIME OF THE 1851 CENSUS.
BLOMFIELD JOHN 1802-ROBERTS SUSANA MARRIED-25/9/1821-BRETTENHAM-SUFFOLD-ENGLAND.
BLOMFIELD ANNE- MARRIED -MOWLE ROBERT-20-12-1762 IN BRETTENHAM-SUFFOLK-ENGLAND.
BLOMFIELD MARY C1750-MARRIED-DAMONT JEREMIAH-1/11/1775 BURY-SUFFOLK-ENGLAND.
BLUMFIELD ANNE-1728-MARRIED-ALEXANDER JOHN-1723-10-10-1775 IN BADON-SUFFOLK.K.
BLOMFIELD/BLOOMFIELD CHARLES JAMES 1873-SARAH ANNE ALICE 1852.IN THIS BLOMFIELD FAMILY OF NINE CHILDREN, SOME ARE CHRISTENED BLOMFIELDAND SOME BLOOMFIELD.
BLOMFIELD EMMA ELIZABTH ALICE9-6-1851 AND PORTER MILTON EMERSON-MARRIED BAPTIST CHURCH, WELLESLEY ST., AUCKLAND NEW ZEALAND.
CHILDREN: PORTER NELLO 5-11-1882,PORTER VIDA 3-11-1884. PORTER LELIA 3-2-1886.
THE BELLEEK STORY:MAJOR JOHN COLPOYS BLOOMFIELD INHERITED CASTLE CADWELL IN 1830.THE POTATO FAMINE HAD FERMNAGH IN ITS DEADLY GRIP WHEN SON JOHN BLOOMFIELD HAD THE IDEA OF GIVING THE UNEMPLOYED AND HUNGRY VILLAGERS EMPLOYMENT N THE FORM OF MAKING POTTERY FROM THE SOILS ABUNDANT RESOURCES, AN IDEA THAT PAID OFF.JOHN BLOOMFIELD-CADWELL-1823, WAS THE PRINCIPAL FOUNDER OF THE FAMOUS BELLEEK POTTERY .
BRASS PLATE IN LODDON CHURCH WITH ARMS OF BLOMEVILEWITH CRESCENT IMPALING HOBART-" OF YOUR CHARITY PRAY FOR THE SOULE OF DAME KATERYN SAMPSON, LATE WIFE OF MASTER JOHN BLOMEVILE ESQ.,ON WHOSE SOULS MAY JESU HAVE MERCY-28 APRIL 1546(BLOMEFIELD)
THE FURTHER BACK THE BLOMVILEFAMILY IS TRACED, THE MORE CONSIDERABLE IT'S POSITION AND POSSESSIONS. BLOMEFIELD'S"HISTORY OF NORFOLK"V 64, MANOR OF BLUNDEVILLE OF NEWTON HALL IN NORFOLK, WILLIAM de BLUNDERILLE,BLOMEVYLE WHO HAD IT AS A GIFT OF HENRY de RHYE WITH BLOMEVYLE'S MANOR IN DEPHAM.
WILLIAM BLOMFIELD (Cutler) WITH HER FAMILY ON THE S.S.GERTRUDE IN 1863.
MY GRANDFATHER
THOMAS NEVILL BLOMFIELD AND HIS FAMILY ON THE P&O SHIP CHINA FROM MELBOURNE TRANSFER MAKOIA IN 1901.
The branch or rather group of families from which we are descended was the SUFFOLK GROUP, which by the seventeenth century occupied a considerable tract of country in SUFFOLK between IPSWICH, FRAMLINGHAM and MONKS ELEIGH, close to LAVENHAM with outlaying branches as far as HENHAM to the North East and AND BURY ST EDMUNDS. to the North West,STONHAM ASPALL and STONEHAM PARVA, also MICKFIELD, DEDHAM, DEBENHAM ETC.,. .
In the 15th Century the Family was known as BLOMVILE ,and that they were then settled in SUFFOLK as either descendants of BLOMVILE OF HENHAM or as an offshoot of the family of BLOMVILE OF DEPHAM and NEWTON OF FLOTHAM, from which other family offshoots settled in EAST DEREHAM and in NORWICH. BLOMFIELD, BLONVILE and BLONDEVILLE are in fact all names of the same parent family and that they were originally known as "BLONVILE" OR "de BLONVILE", from the LITTLE VILLAGE OF de BLONVILE on the Norman coast, from which they came over to ENGLAND at the end of the 11TH CENTURY or early 12TH CENTURY.
As was the case with most of the oldest EAST ANGLICAN FAMILIES, the Family is of NORMAN origin, from the data that ancestors on both sides were neighbours in SUFFOLK.. The evidence here is typical of the history of some of the oldest families in ENGLAND ,
"FAMILIES FAR OLDER THAN MANY OF THOSE NOW INCLUDED IN PEERAGE, AND THAT HELD AND LOST THEIR LAND IN DAYS BEFORE THOSE FAMILES HAD ANY EXISTENCE AT ALL"........SIR REGINALD BLOMFIELD.."
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A SUVFFOLK FAMILY" This is a very important book to have , actually a must, if you are an avid BLOMFIELD researcher!
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