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Other Bomfords
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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://www.comp.utas.edu.au/users/rsmith/bomford/wc_toc.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 Please note that Ms Peterson's address as stated at the head of the article is now well out of date.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 12/1508) 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):
Thomas Bomford b 1750 at Epwell married Ann Sherfield b 1755, and had issue John Bomford b 1781 at Barford, married Ann Savage b 1788, and had issue Thomas Bomford b 1805, married 20 Oct 1831 Hannah Keen b 1811, lived at Stretton on Fosse, and had issue. John Bomford b c1843 Richard Bomford b c1844 (Evelyn Keen (email 15 Nov 2008) says Richard was b 1836), married firstly 11 Nov 1861 Ann Buren, and had issue Emma Bomford b c1862 Mary Bomford b c1863 John Bomford b c 1864 Elizabeth Bomford b c1865 William Bomford b c1870 Richard b c1844 married secondly Mary Ann White b c1856, and had further issue. Anne Bomford b c 1874 Miriam Bomford b 1888 in London, married John Broughton Fletcher b 1882 at Chelsea. 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. Alice Bomford b c1850.
These may (or may not) relate to I0075 John Bomford in the Worcestershire Bomfords annotated tree - there is a coincidence of some names and the dates are about right but no fit with the current version of the Worcestershire tree. |
