Maria Cross

   Cause of her death was Senectus Certified.

  General Notes:

Also known as Maria Crofts, on her death certificate she is down as Maria Cross Bloomfield. In the death index book at Ipswich Cemetery she is listed as Maria Crofts Bloomfield. On her baptism entry she is listed as Maria Crofts and her father as John Crofts.

Maria was a witness at her sister in law Eliza Bloomfield's wedding on 16 May 1814 to Thomas Cooper at Rushmere St Andrew Church. She is shown as Mary on the marriage record.

  Noted events in her life were:

• Marriage: to John Bloomfield, 3 November 1812, Rushmere St Andrew, Suffolk.

• Residence: Rushmere St Andrew, 1841, Suffolk.

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

• Residence: Foxhall Road, 1861, Ipswich.

• Residence: Foxhall Road, 1871, Ipswich, Suffolk.

Maria married John Bloomfield, son of John Bloomfield and Sarah Jakes, on 3 November 1812 in Rushmere St Andrew, Suffolk. (John Bloomfield was born in 1792 in Rushmere, Suffolk, baptised on 12 August 1792 in Rushmere St Andrew, Suffolk, died on 9 November 1865 in Foxhall Road, Ipswich, Suffolk and was buried on 17 November 1865 in Ipswich Cemetry, Cemetry Road, Ipswich, Suffolk.) The cause of his 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.