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Re: Bloomfield - 1851 Census Lookup
« Reply #9 on: Monday 10 October 11 16:06 BST (UK) »
Hello All
Thanks for all the extra Bloomfield info, especially Janis, that's amazing info you've found.  I'd noticed one of the christenings to John/Mary Bloomfield and did wonder if he had been married before, hence the hope that I could find his rough year of birth, to see if he was possibly old enough to have had a first marriage.

I'd also seen the chr of Margaret Shanks in 1809 to Mark Shanks, but it would have meant that she was only 16 when she married a widowed older man, unless she was born a few years before her christening.  There is her son called Mark too though, a more unusual name at the time.

There are two other chr that I was looking at, one in 1796 to a John/Margaret Shanks in Woodhorn, NBL, and another in Wallsend in 1792 to George/Susanna Shanks, obviously the Wallsend one stood out to me more than the one in Woodhorn, Woodhorn is further up the coast, away from the Newcastle area.  There is also Ruskie's census info where Margaret gives her age as 60 in the 1851 census, which gives her a possible birth year of 1791 from that, putting her closer to the chr in 1792 and no where near the one in 1809.

The fact that there is only one Bloomfield in the records during all of this does suggest that John wasn't born in the area.  More fuel for the fire I suppose!

Thanks,
Brenda
Durham/NBL - Cummin(g)s, Stokoe, Burdess, Embleton, Stirrup, Bewick, Doney, Lumsdon, Laws, Bloomfield, Hunter, Henderson, Mosman
Lancashire - Stirrup, Molyneux, Rudd, Golding
Cambs - Palmer, Butler, Levitt, Golding, Skeel,  Howard, Hancock, Bowers, Norton, Colman, Peachey, Crane
Surrey - Palmer
Berks - Cruttwell, Bunce, Batten
IOW - Roach, Robinson
Cornwall - Doney, Gumb, Goyne
S Wales - Thomas, Dickinson (via Cumbria)
Coastguard Families: Clark, Fuller, Grant

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Re: Bloomfield - 1851 Census Lookup
« Reply #10 on: Monday 10 October 11 16:27 BST (UK) »
Forgot to add that George/Margaret Shanks baptised a Mark Shanks on 18 April 1790 in Wallsend too, he could be the same Mark Shanks who married Jane Rowe and baptised Margaret in 1809.

There's a marriage on 8 Jun 1789 in Longbenton of George Shanks and Susanna Spence.
Brenda
Durham/NBL - Cummin(g)s, Stokoe, Burdess, Embleton, Stirrup, Bewick, Doney, Lumsdon, Laws, Bloomfield, Hunter, Henderson, Mosman
Lancashire - Stirrup, Molyneux, Rudd, Golding
Cambs - Palmer, Butler, Levitt, Golding, Skeel,  Howard, Hancock, Bowers, Norton, Colman, Peachey, Crane
Surrey - Palmer
Berks - Cruttwell, Bunce, Batten
IOW - Roach, Robinson
Cornwall - Doney, Gumb, Goyne
S Wales - Thomas, Dickinson (via Cumbria)
Coastguard Families: Clark, Fuller, Grant

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Re: Bloomfield - 1851 Census Lookup
« Reply #11 on: Monday 10 October 11 17:35 BST (UK) »
I have found Mark in 1861 but no sign of Margaret.



I've just found Margaret (on FreeCen) in 1861, in Belmont, Durham with her son Benjamin and his family.  She is listed as 78 yrs old and a native of Willington, Durham.

Plus the Easington PR's cover 1851, and what appears to be John's burial is there in South Hetton, which is where Margaret and son Mark were in the 1851 census.  He's listed as 67 years old, but his name has morphed from John to Robert, buried March 15th!

Brenda
Durham/NBL - Cummin(g)s, Stokoe, Burdess, Embleton, Stirrup, Bewick, Doney, Lumsdon, Laws, Bloomfield, Hunter, Henderson, Mosman
Lancashire - Stirrup, Molyneux, Rudd, Golding
Cambs - Palmer, Butler, Levitt, Golding, Skeel,  Howard, Hancock, Bowers, Norton, Colman, Peachey, Crane
Surrey - Palmer
Berks - Cruttwell, Bunce, Batten
IOW - Roach, Robinson
Cornwall - Doney, Gumb, Goyne
S Wales - Thomas, Dickinson (via Cumbria)
Coastguard Families: Clark, Fuller, Grant

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Re: Bloomfield - 1851 Census Lookup
« Reply #12 on: Friday 20 January 12 08:53 GMT (UK) »
Hi My name is Pasepa Tonga I'm from New Zealand & Tonga and my Great Grand Mother is a Bloomfield from America Tonga her names Sentilila Nauli Bloomfield

So if any of yous are from Tonga and America with the last name Bloomfield
it would be much appreciated if you can contact me with any info of the history of the family and where they originally from.

God Bless