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