William
Blomer
aka Bloomer
Born about in Hatherop, Gloucestershire, England
[uncertain]
[uncertain]Son of John Bloomer
[uncertain]
and Alice (Cruse) Blomer
[uncertain]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Martha (Crewes) Bloomer
— married
1561 [location unknown]
Father of
Thomas Bloomer
Died about
at about age 39
[location unknown]
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Biography
William was born in 1530. He was the son of John Blomer and Alice Cruse. He passed away in 1616.
William Blomer or Bloomer was a relative of Sir Henry Blomer. Their cousins the Lords Bloomer (also spelt Blomer) became crypto-Catholics after the reformation while William's family remained as crypto-Jews in the chain mail business. [1]
Note: It would seem that the information on this family has become confused. The William Blomer who was the father of Sir Henry Blomer was not the same William who was the son of John Bloomer (Blomer) (b.1509 d.1535) and Alice Cruse but was a son of John Blomer (b,1509 d. 1558) who married Anne Wilmington. William Blomer (b.1485 d.1548) of Westmorland was an uncle of John Blomer who married Alice Cruse. It was the family descended from William of Westmoreland's brother Robert Blomer or Bloomer of London who intermarried with the Cruse or Crewse family that were crypto-Jews (outwardly Catholic and then Anglican) and the descendants of William of Westmoreland who were crypto-Catholics. William Bloomer (b.1528 d.1567) was the son of John and Alice (nee Cruse) Blomer and he married Martha Crewes the daughter of William Crewes (1488-1539).
Sources
- Montefiore Connections at Ancestry.com
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What evidence do you have for the pedigree described in your diagram ? The only source given is your ancestry tree which is private. This isn't an acceptable source for these pre 1700 profiles see https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:England_Project_Reliable_Sources
edited by Athol Bloomer
The family appear on the Visitation of Gloucestershire. William's wife is named as Martha Wellbourne. The family originated in Westmoreland, see https://archive.org/details/visitationofcoun00inchit/page/20/mode/2up
This family were known to be Catholic appearing on recusant lists. See Catholicism in the victoria County History entry for Hatherop https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/glos/vol7/pp86-96#fnn320 A George Blomer, who may have been the third son of Sir Henry attended the English Roman Catholic College in Seville. (biographical register of St John's College, Cambridge p 204 googlebooks Whether this is a correct identification or not,members of the Blomer family had property sequestered for papacy during the Civil war.See https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Browne-5646 The families they married into (e.g. Brownes (viscount's Montagu, the Webbs, the Draycotts ).These were well known Catholics
The link on this profile goes to a blog which is private so there is no possibility of checking the evidence for a Jewish heritage. Otherwise it is unsourced. However, to me It seems unlikely that a family would adopt a Catholic persona with all the penalties that they risked in this era. The lineage of this family has already been raised in a G2G question. https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1226502/does-anything-about-this-ancestry-sound-familiar-does-someone?show=1226502#q1226502
I'd really like to move forward so that I can link https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Blomer-43 husband of Frances Browne to his family (profile still to be written but see his wife's for sources)
edited by Helen (Coleman) Ford