|
Other Bomfords
|
|
Other Bomfords
This page contains information on Bomfords who have not been adequately placed into either the Worcestershire or Irish branches of the Bomford family - research waiting to happen. If you have more information on any of these Bomfords, or have information on a Bomford that you have not been able to place and would like to list here, please contact us or contact the person who is listed as seeking more information.
2. Rick Smith in Tasmania is interested in placing 'other Bomfords'. See his site at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ricksmith61/smith.html for information, including on the De Bomford family.
3. George Bomford was head of the Ordnance Office, Washington, USA in the first half of the 1800s (for more details search the internet using Google or similar). One of his descendents is Nancy Simons Peterson, who published an article on George and his descendents in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Volume 86, No. 4, December 1998, pp 283 - 305: Guarded Pasts: The Lives and Offspring of Colonel George and Clara (Baldwin) Bomford (republished here with the permission of the author). Please note that Ms Peterson's address as stated at the head of the article is now well out of date. Copies of the Quarterly are available from the Society. One hypothesised father of George Bomford is Thomas Bomford, son of Stephen Bomford the younger of Rahinstown, Ireland. If you have more information on George Bomford's links back in England or Ireland, or the family tree of his descendents, please contact us.
4. Jim Bomford of Florida, USA, is well known there for his political views (check with Google if you are interested). We are interested in his family history and its ultimate links back to Bomfords in Ireland. If you can add to what we have, then please contact us.
5. Nottingham Bomfords. The National Probate Calendar includes a number of Bomfords from Nottingham who are not currently linked to the Worcestershire Bomfords tree. If you can expand on this family or link it to the Worcestershire Bomfords, please contact us.
6. There are also several unplaced Bomfords in the National Probate Calendar who may be part of the Worcestershire Bomford family.
7. Rick Smith has found two Bomfords recorded in the cemetery records at Geelong, Victoria, Australia:
Service Date:
8/12/1873
Service Date:
16/04/1894 They look likely to have been husband and wife, but their relationship to other Bomfords is not known.
8. Marie Mills has a Maria Bomford on her tree who was married to (married?) Thomas Renshaw in 1814 at Eckington in Derbyshire. On the 1841 census she was living in Eckington and was 45 years old, so she would have been born about1796. She had a daughter, Hannah Renshaw, born 1821. Thomas Renshaw & Maria Bomford are Marie's g-g-g-grandparents and she would be delighted to hear of any connections. Please contact us if you have any information.
9. A Thomas Bumford of the 35th Regiment of Foot was buried in Malta on 20 April 1804 (Malta Family History website). This lists among its 'Burials in camp before Alexandria, Egypt', '20th April 1804, Thomas BUMFORD, 35th Regiment'. The 35th was based in Malta in 1804. Burials were recorded in the diary of the Reverend D.P. Cosseratt and he did not record the rank of those he buried. Pay records of the 1st Battalion of the 35th in the Public Record Office in London (WO 12/4957) show that Private Thomas Bomford (with an o) of Captain Hardy's Company died on 20 April 1804 in Malta. WO 12/4955 shows that Thomas was transferred from the 2nd Battalion of the 35th to Captn Fowden's Company in the 1st Battalion on 25 August 1802 (pay period ending 24 September 1802). The pay records for the 2nd Battalion of the 35th (WO 12/5018) show Thomas Bumford (or Bunnford or even Burnford - the handwriting varies) serving in Major George Stewart's Company in Malta up to 24 August 1802, while the pay period ending 24 January 1802 shows him as Thomas Bumford, transferred from the 63rd Regiment (on 25 December 1801) to 'the Major's Company'. The records of the 63rd Regiment of Foot show Thomas as a private in Captain John's Company up to 24 December 1801, in Gibraltar and Malta (WO 12/7246; WO 12/7245). Before June 1801 Thomas was in Major Alston's Company in the first battalion of the 63rd, in Gibraltar and the UK. He joined the Company on 13 August 1799 in Montgomery [in Wales, right on the border with England] (WO 12/7244). If he came from Montgomery, as one may suppose, he may well be one of the Welsh Bumfords. A search for a history of the 63rd on the internet reveals several unsourced reports that 'the [63rd] regiment took part in a variety of operations in many islands in the Caribbean, remaining in the region until 1799, when they departed for Britain'.
This Private Thomas Bomford of the 35th should not to be confused with Captain Thomas Bomford of the same 35th Regiment some 20 years earlier.
10. Kim Bomford has done some research and found the following lineage (email 30 Aug 2006, sources not stated; updated by emails 22 & 26 Nov 2008, drawing on census records; updated by email 6 Jun 2009):
1a Thomas Bomford b 1750 at Epwell married Ann Sherfield b 1755, and had issue 2a John Bomford or John Bumford b 1781 at Barford, married 30 Mar 1812 Ann Savage b 1788, and had issue [possibly - Kim
Bomford email 11 Aug 2009] 3a Thomas Bomford b
4a John
Bomford
b 5a Thomas Henry Bomford b 1859. In 1891 was a widower living Sheep St, Brailes, and had issue 6a Alice Mary b 1887 5a Thomas Henry m(2) Louisa b c1865, and had further issue. In 1901 they were living in Black Lane or New St, Brailes 6b Thomas Henry Bomford, b 1896, d WW1 5b William Bomford b 1862 5c Alice Edith Bomford b 1864 5d Joseph Richard Bomford b 1867 m Ada Elizabeth Taylor and had issue 6a Kathleen May Bomford b 1896 6b Gerald John Bomford b 1897 6c Frederick Joseph Bomford b 1899 6d Cyril Bryan Bomford b 1901 m Irene Caudwell and had issue 7a Phillip Bomford b 1927 7b Christine Bomford b 1929 7c Gerald Bomford b 1933 7d Leslie Bomford m Ellen Brown b 1914 d 1986 and had issue 8a Ronald Bomford b 1941, m Claire Williams b 1941 and had issue 9a Matthew Bomford b 1967 9b Sian Bomford b 1971 6e Raymond Bomford 5e Mary Lucy Bomford b 1875 4b Richard
Bomford
b 5a Emma Bomford b c1862. 5b Mary A Bomford b c1864 5c John Bomford b c1865 5d Elizabeth Bomford b c1866. In 1881 census living with her grandmother, Hannah, then widowed. 5e William Bomford b c1871. In 1891 census living at Batsford with Joseph Fletcher and family 5f Anne Bomford b c1874. In 1881 living with her grandmother, Hannah, then widowed. 4b Richard b
5g Bertha Miriam Bomford, b c1881, b Nov 1880. In 1911 living at Moreton in Marsh, Stretton on the Fosse, with her sister Gertrude 5h Gertrude Alice Bomford b 1883, c2 Jul 1883 in London, and had issue 6a Kathleen Bomford, b 1906 5i Edith Francis Bomford b 1884, b c5 Jun 1884 5j Sarah Miriam Bomford, known as Evelyn Bomford, b c 18 Oct 1887, m 1909 John Broughton Fletcher, b 1882 at Chelsea and had issue. Evelyn Keen (email 18 Nov 2008) says this daughter was Evelyn Sarah Bomford, d 1957, m John Broughton Fletcher in 1909 and had eight children. Ronald Fletcher (Kim Bomford email 22 Nov 2008) says she was Miriam Sarah Bomford, used the name Evelyn 6a Doris Mary Bomford [Doris Mary Fletcher? or perhaps Doris Mary Bomford Fletcher? Bomford is included in her name in the 1911 census record (Kim Bomford email 11 Aug 2009)] b 1907 6b Leslie John Fletcher, b 1910, d 1965 who had issue 7a Ronald Fletcher 5k Daisy Bomford b 1891 b c11 Oct 1891 4c Alice
Bomford
b 3b Mark Bomford b 11 Sep 1814 at Barford m 6 Feb 1837 Caroline Hyam and had issue 4a Mark Bomford b 1837 4b Joseph Bomford b 1843, m 19-10-1873 Ann Maria Hewitt b 1852 and had issue. Lived at 21 Bridge End, St Nicolas; then at 33 Bridge End in 1891 5a Sarah Ann Bomford b 1874 5b Mark Bomford b 1876 5c Amy Eliza Bomford b 1879 5d Elsie Caroline Bomford b 1882 5e Harriet Charlotte Bomford b 1884 5f Alice Victoria Bomford b 1888 4c Ann Bomford b 1853 d 1854 3c John Bomford, b 14 Jun 1818 at Barford
These may (or may not) relate to I0075 John Bomford in the Worcestershire Bomfords annotated tree - there is a coincidence of many (but not all) names and the dates are about right, but no fit of the first and second generations with the current version of the Worcestershire tree.
11. There is a family of Bumfords in Wales. They apparently came from Bamford, Derbyshire, independently of the Bomfords in Worcestershire, in the 1570s. They have a website, http://www.boydhouse.com/alice/Green/green14bumfordancestors.htm. See also Bomford and Bumford records in the National Library of Wales
12. Kim Bomford (email 12 Jun 2008) has a family of Bomfords descended from Vincent Bomford. It is a large pdf document dated 18 Nov 2007, and lists descendents for 16 generations. The ones with which we are concerned are:
Generation No. 1 1. VINCENT1 BOMFORD was born 1550. He married ELINOR. Child of VINCENT BOMFORD and ELINOR is: 2. i. WILLIAM2 BOMFORD, b. 1570. Generation No. 2 2. WILLIAM2 BOMFORD (VINCENT1) was born 1570. He married JOYCE. Child of WILLIAM BOMFORD and JOYCE is: 3. i. FRANCIS3 BOMFORD, b. 1605. Generation No. 3 3. FRANCIS3 BOMFORD (WILLIAM2, VINCENT1) was born 1605. He married ALICE ABINGTON, daughter of WILLYAM ABINGTON and JOANE. She was born May 1603. Child of FRANCIS BOMFORD and ALICE ABINGTON is: 4. i. THOMAS4 BOMFORD, b. 1640. Generation No. 4 4. THOMAS4 BOMFORD (FRANCIS3, WILLIAM2, VINCENT1) was born 1640. He married EMM. Child of THOMAS BOMFORD and EMM is: 5. i. MARY5 BOMFORD, b. 1674, Worcester; d. 1751, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire. Generation No. 5 5. MARY5 BOMFORD (THOMAS4, FRANCIS3, WILLIAM2, VINCENT1) was born 1674 in Worcester, and died 1751 in Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire. She married RALPH DUTTON in Stretton on Foss, Warwickshire, son of JOHN DUTTON and ELIZABETH KEYTE. He was born 1681 in Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, and died 1754 in Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire. Notes for RALPH DUTTON: Baptised: 7th June 1681 in Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire Buried: 27th February 1754 Chipping Campden, Gloucestreshire Children of MARY BOMFORD and RALPH DUTTON are: 6. i. JOHN6 DUTTON, b. 1704, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire; d. 1744, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire. ii. ELIZABETH DUTTON, b. 1705, Weston Subedge, Gloucestershire; d. 1706, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire. 7. iii. MARY DUTTON, b. 1707, Weston Subedge, Gloucestershire; d. 1759, Weston Subedge, Gloucestershire.
13. George Bomford Wheeler or George Bomfforde Wheeler was the second editor of The Irish Times, from 1859 to 1877. No-one seems to have any idea what the connection is between him and the Bomford family. (Michael Wheeler email 21 Aug 2007; Catherine Holman email 12 Mar 2006, attaching email from Constantin Roman). Dublin Parish records have information on various Bomford Wheelers but so far they shed no light on a connection with the Irish Bomfords:
According to a post on the internet (http://www.flickr.com/photos/costi-londra/3838999993/), George Bomfforde Wheeler was originally called George Baker Wheeler but changed his name; and George married his cousin, Eliza Shaw, sister of Dr George Ferdinand Shaw, Henry Shaw and Lorenzo Shaw. They were children of William Shaw, a printer stationer of 7 Bachelors Walk, Dublin.
14. John Bomford married on 4 Oct 1836 in Folkstone, Kent, England, Agnes Viney who was born 8 Jul 1806 in Folkstone: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=richjmay&id=I1107 (Richard May email 1 Aug 2009)
15. Henry Raymond Bomford died on 6 Jan 1917 and is buried in the north east part of the Badger Church Cemetery, Shropshire (Commonwealth War Graves Commission). He was a Lance Corporal in the King's Royal Rifle Corps 2nd Ba, son of Mrs Louisa Bomford, of Stapleford, Bridgnorton, service number C/8133. The 1911 UK census records Louise Bomford aged 46 (b c1865) at Bridgnorth, Shropshire. The census also records Henry Bomford at Bridgnorth, Shropshire, aged 15, b c1896. In the 1891 census of England there is an Edward Bomford, b c1838 in Warwickshire, living in Shropshire, but no Louisa. |
