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 Bloomer Coat of Arms / Bloomer Family CrestThe surname of BLOOMER was a locational name 'of Brome' a parish in the diocese of Norwich, and there are places of the name in Bedfordshire, County Durham, Shropshire, Suffolk and Worcestershire. The name was derived from the Old English word BROM, literally meaning the dweller near the gorse of broom. The name is also spelt BLOMER, BLOOME and BROME. Habitation names are derived from names denoting towns, villages, farmsteads or other named places, which include rivers, houses with signs on them, regions, or whole counties. The original bearer of the name who stayed in his area might be known by the name of his farm, or the locality in the parish; someone who moved to another town might be known by the name of his village; while someone who moved to another county could acquire the name of that county or the region from which he originated. Early records of the name mention Henry Brom, vicar of Great Ellingham, County Norfolk, 1312. Sir Roger de Brome of Brome Manor, County Norfolk, 1304. Edward Bloom of County Lancashire was documented during the reign of Edward III (1327-1377). Thomas Bloome of Yorkshire, was listed in the Yorkshire Poll Tax of 1379. Later instances of the name mention Thomas Bloome and Agnes Stempe who were married in London in the year 1583. William Bloom and Ann Young were married at St. George's, Hanover Square, London in 1805. A notable member of the name was Amelia BLOOMER, nee Jenks (1818-94) the American champion of womens rights and dress reform, born in Homer New York. In 1840 she married a lawyer and founded and edited the feminist paper 'The Lily' (1849-55). In her pursuit of dress equality she wore her own version of trousers for women which came to be called 'bloomers'. Over the centuries, most people in Europe have accepted their surname as a fact of life, as irrevocable as an act of God. However much the individual may have liked or disliked the surname, they were stuck with it, and people rarely changed them by personal choice. A more common form of variation was in fact involuntary, when an official change was made, in other words, a clerical error. |
