Brief Life History of James Elias
When James Elias Bloomfield was born in 1784, in Flempton, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, his father, George Blomfield, was 34 and his mother, Susanna Bannock, was 32. He married Mary Shade on 28 February 1804, in Coney Weston, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Saint Margaret, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom in 1841. He died in 1842, in West Walton, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 58, and was buried in West Walton, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom.
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- James Bloomfield, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- James Elias Bloomfield, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index: 1837-1915
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1801 · The Act of Union
The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.
1808 · The British West Africa Squadron
The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of Jewish Blumfeld: artificial compound of Yiddish blum ‘flower’ + feld ‘field’.
English (East Anglia): from Blundeville, Norman habitational name from Blonville-sur-Mer in Calvados, France. The first element is probably an Old Norse personal name; the second is Old French ville ‘settlement’. In the 16th and 17th centuries in England, the endings -field and -ville were often used interchangeably; one branch of the Blundeville family continued using the -ville spelling while another chose Blom(e)field or Bloomfield.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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