When Nelson Bloomfield was born on 1 September 1838, in Ontario, Canada, his father, John Bloomfield, was 39 and his mother, Eliza Peet, was 30. He married Laura Simkins on 4 March 1861, in Norfolk, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Walsingham, Norfolk, Ontario, Canada for about 20 years and Norfolk, Ontario, Canada in 1901. He died on 11 April 1903, in Walsingham Township, Norfolk, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 64.
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Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
The Crimean War was fought between Russia and an alliance of Britain, France, Sardinia and Turkey on the Crimean Peninsula. Russia had put pressure on Turkey which threatened British interests in the Middle East.
On July 1, 1867, the province of Ontario was founded. It is the second largest province in Canada. A third of the population of Canada live here. Before it was Ontario it was called Upper Canada and had a Governor.
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.
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