Ezekiel Blomfield Proctor

Brief Life History of Ezekiel Blomfield

When Ezekiel Blomfield Proctor was born in 1802, in Wymondham, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Proctor, was 28 and his mother, Elizabeth Blomfield, was 29. He married Maria Blyth on 25 April 1823, in Wymondham, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 1 daughter. He died in 1875, in Colchester, Essex, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 73.

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Family Time Line

Ezekiel Blomfield Proctor
1802–1875
Maria Blyth
1803–1890
Marriage: 25 April 1823
Frederic Proctor
1824–1828
Ezekiel Proctor
1826–1898
Harriet Proctor
1831–1915
Frederick Proctor
1837–
William Bloomfield Proctor
1839–1891
George Henry Proctor
1840–1893
Thomas Proctor
1843–1920

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  • Ezekiel Proctor, "England and Wales Census, 1871"
  • Ezekiel Blomfield Proctor, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
  • Tekiel Proctor, "England Marriages, 1538–1973 "

World Events (6)

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.

1823

Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.

Name Meaning

English (northern): occupational name from Middle English prok(e)tour ‘steward’ (shortened from Old French procurateour, Latin procurator ‘agent’, from procurare ‘to manage’). The term was used most commonly of an attorney in a spiritual court, but also of other officials such as collectors of taxes and agents licensed to collect alms on behalf of lepers and enclosed orders of monks.

History: John Proctor (died 1757) was a prominent citizen of Boston, MA, and is buried in the King's Chapel Burying Ground there.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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