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George Robert Blomfield (bef. 1757 - 1831)

George Robert Blomfield
Born before in Honington, Suffolk, Englandmap
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Brother of , , , and
Husband of — married 23 Dec 1788 in St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, Englandmap
Father of , , , and
Died after age 73 [location unknown]
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George Blomfield was born in Suffolk, England.
George was a Shoemaker

George Robert Blomfield the son of George Blomfield and Elizabeth Manby was baptised on 20 Jun 1757 at Honington, Suffolk.[1]

He was a shoemaker, and apprenticed his younger brother Robert.[2]

On 23 Dec 1788 he married Sarah Stone at Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.[3]

In 1820 he anonymously published Thetford Chalybeate Spa. A Poem by a Parishioner of St. Peter's.[4]

"Blomfield Letters, British Museum Add. MS. 29896. This account, which is in manuscript, was written by George, brother of Robert Bloomfield the poet. As the writer himself admits, it was written in his garrulous old age, and though pleasantly written, it consists of vague reminiscences, some of which at any rate are doubtful, and I do not think that any implicit reliance can be placed on this writer's notes. The descendants of the family of Isaac Blomfield by his first wife drifted off into poverty, and appear to have entertained some slight jealousy of the family descended from James Blomfield, the only child of the marriage of Isaac Blomfield with Susanna Clift."[5]

He passed away on 29 Jan 1831.[6]

Sources

  1. ↑ Baptism: "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NVGN-HTL : 19 September 2020), George Robert Blomfield, 1757.
  2. ↑ "Four years later, owing to his small and weak stature (in adulthood just five feet tall), he was sent to London to work as a shoemaker under his elder brother George." - Wikipedia Robert Bloomfield
  3. ↑ Marriage: "England Marriages, 1538–1973", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NJF1-7JP : 13 March 2020), Sarah Stone in entry for George Robert Bloomfield, 1788.
  4. ↑ Thetford Chalybeate Spa. A Poem by a Parishioner of St. Peter's (Cambridge: printed by J. Smith, [1820] and sold by the booksellers in Thetford, Bury, and Norwich.)
  5. ↑ A Suffolk Family by Sir Reginald Blomfield RA [1916], p. 20 footnote
  6. ↑ Death: Sir Stephen Leslie Dictionary of National Biography Vol 2 : Macmillan & Co., London [1886], p. 237




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