John Bloomfield

   Cause of his death was Senectus Certified.

  General Notes:

John Bloomfield was a witness at his sister Elizabeth Bloomfield's wedding to Thomas Cooper at Rushmere St Andrew Church on 16 May 1814. Mary Bloomfield (John's wife of 2 years) was the other witness.

John Bloomfield (born 1792) and Lucy Robinson (Nee Cross) were witnesses to Eliza Bloomfield first marriage to Edward Pipe on 22 October 1840 at Kesgrave. John was again a witness (along with Eliza Lambert - his sister in law) at Eliza's second marriage to George Finney on 23 July 1865 at St Clements Church, Ipswich.

On the 1851 census living with John and Maria Bloomfield was an Eliza Pipe who is shown as John's Grand-Daughter, she is shown as being 9 years old so would have been born in 1842 in Rushmere St Andrew, Suffolk. Her parents were Eliza Bloomfield and Edward Pipe.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Marriage: to Maria Crofts, 3 November 1812, Rushmere St Andrew, Suffolk.

• Residence: Rushmere St Andrew, 1841, Suffolk.

• Occupation: Labourer, 1849, Ipswich, Suffolk.

• Residence: Cobbolds Cottages, Back Hamlet, 1851, Ipswich, Suffolk.

• Occupation: Shepherd, 1851, Ipswich, Suffolk.

• Residence: Foxhall Road, 1861, Ipswich.

• Occupation: Farm Labourer, up to 1865, Ipswich.

John married Maria Cross, daughter of John Cross and Martha Keeble, on 3 November 1812 in Rushmere St Andrew, Suffolk. (Maria Cross was born in 1782 in Foxhall, Suffolk, christened on 13 July 1788 in Foxhall, Suffolk, died on 2 July 1872 in Bishops Hill, Ipswich, Suffolk and was buried on 6 July 1872 in Ipswich Cemetery, Cemetery Road, Ipswich, Suffolk.) The cause of her death was Senectus Certified.

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• witness to wedding: Elizabeth Bloomfield, Lucy Robinson & Samuel Robinson, 3 November 1812, Rushmere St Andrew, Suffolk.