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Hello Yi, Also visited Coney Weston (church open, records available), Hopton (church open), Market Weston, Barningham, (last 2 churches operating but locked), Bury St Edmunds, Knettishall (church renovated as private home - my Linge line came from Knettishall: Wm Linge (1806) m Susan B'field (1804, bap 1807)).  Many gravestones stolen while Knet church was in disuse, but found 2 Linges.  Mickfield was great: open 7 days, services 7 days, independent of C of E, v friendly retired lay reader in charge,  has records from 1588).  In Mickfield, church is about the only place to park! At all places most gravestones earlier than early 1800s too weathered to read.  All a long way from home in Australia: maybe will visit again in a few years' time and stay longer.  Stayed in hotels at Bury St Ed and Thetford: didn't have my laptop for finding accomm and B&Bs a bit sparse in that district.  HowardJ

Hi Lady Grace,

I connected with another website that had Thomas Bacon b 1609 Winston, descended from Sir Edmund Bacon 1420-53 of Drinkstone SFK.  Whether this is the Thomas Bacon that married Anne Bloomfield I could not determine.  He had seven siblings, at least 5 of whom died in Massachusetts.  No further info on Thomas.

Howard J

Hi Justine,
Glad to hear from you.  You're on the opposite side of the country. The last person bearing the Bloomfield surname in my line was Susan Bloomfield b 1807 Norton SFK, d. 1882 Market Weston SFK.  She married William Linge b 1806 Knettishall SFK d 1889.  Their grandson, William Bloomfield Linge, moved to Durham to take up farming land.  His daughter Jane married Joseph Fisher and they migrated to Sydney in 1928.  I am their grandson.  Susan Bloomfield was my 3xg gmother. 
There are Bloomfields in many places.  Some of the Bloomfields went to Massachusetts (MA) in the mid 1600s.  One, Elizabeth Bloomfield (b1584), married Thomas Paine in 1610 (both from Wrentham, SFK).  They were on board the "Mary Ann" that reached Boston in June 1637, with a brace of kids in tow.  It is possible that she was the ancestor of Robert Treat Paine, one of the signatories to the Declaration of Independence in 1776. However there were a few T Paines in the Colony and confusion is easy. Quite a few of the New England states have a town called Bloomfield.  There was a Thomas Bloomfield m Mary Withers who left SFK for MA. This couple had nine children, and their children went and did likewise, so the Bloomfields blossomed.  I haven't been able to link any of the MA Bloomfields with my lineage (back to John and Anne at the beginning of the 1500s) with certainty.  There is another Suffolk Bloomfield line in New Zealand, also doing family history.    Hope to share more.  Howard

Am interested to find parentage and further forebears of Mary Bacon, born Mickfield c.1580, married Thomas Bloomfield (b. MIckfield 1576) on 4th Feb 1601 or 1602.  Some sites give her wedding year as her birth year, but son Thomas born in 1608.
HowardJ