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Just came across her on FreeBMD, who does she connect to and where did Bloemfontein come from?

Birth Mar 1901
Crumpton May Bloemfontein Dudley 6c 9

Found her...

1911: 67 Beeches Road, Blackheath, Birmingham, Staffs
George Crumpton 52 Head Galvanizer Blackheath
Martha Crumpton 50 Wife Blackheath - Married 29 years - 10 born/7 living/2 died
Mary Ellen Crumpton 21 Dau S Housework Chowbent, Lancs
George Crumpton 19 Son S Galvanizer Chowbent, Lancs
James Henry Crumpton 16 Son Blackheath
May Bloomfontein Crumpton 10 Dau Blackheath
Walter Crumpton 8 Son Blackheath

1901: 67 Tump Road, Rowley Regis
George Crumpton 41 Coalminer/Hewer
Martha Crumpton 39
Sarah Ann Crumpton 16 Dau ? Bender Nailworks Chowbent, Lancs
Mary Ellen Crumpton 12 Dau Chowbent, Lancs
George Crumpton 9 Son Chowbent, Lancs
James Henry Crumpton 7
May Bloemfontrin Crumpton 4 ?? (should this be 4 mths?)
Ellen Taylor 69 Visitor Wid
(others born Blackheath, Staffs)

West Midlands Marriage indexes for the years: 1882.
CRUMPTON George. STRINGER Martha. Dudley, St Thomas. Dudley Register Office. 204/037/89.

1891. 4 Off High St, Atherton, Lancashire.
George Crompton 30. Coal miner. Blackheath, Staffordshire.
Martha Crompton 28. Blackheath, Staffordshire.
Matthew Crompton 8. Son. Blackheath, Staffordshire.
Sarah Ann Crompton 5. Dau. Atherton, Lancashire.
Mary Ellen Crompton 1. Dau. Atherton, Lancashire.
John Wood 28. Boarder. Tunstall, Staffordshire.

Death.
May Bloemfontein Neall. 1900. Oct-Nov-Dec 1983. Dudley West Midlands.

West Midlands Marriage indexes for the years: 1920.
CRUMPTON May B. NEALE Samuel L. Rowley Regis, Methodist Church. - High Street, Blackheath. Sandwell Register Office. 81/2/30.

How curious!
If you put "Bloemfontein" into freebmd as a first name and search over 1890-1910 then you get just four hits (must be a few more with varied spelling), in the period March 1900-Sept 1901.

Bloemfontein is a city in South Africa, site of a meeting to try and prevent 2nd Boer War and after the British captured the city in March 1900 they (we, oh dear) set up a concentration camp.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloemfontein

Perhaps it was just an "in" name? Or popular if family members were fighting?

20 babies registered in Jun 1900 got it as a middle name, boys and girls!

How interesting, i think you're probably right

Perhaps it was just an "in" name? Or popular if family members were fighting?

George Crumpton.
groom's birth date: 1860.
groom's age: 22.
bride's name: Martha Stringer.
bride's birth date: 1861.
bride's age: 21.
marriage date: 10 Apr 1882.
marriage place: Dudley, Worcester.
groom's father's name: William Crumpton.
bride's father's name: Matthew Stringer.
indexing project (batch) number: M01611-4.
system origin: England-EASy.
source film number: 378787.
reference number: 89.

Thanks Jimmy!

I think this is George (already on BCC)

http://bcconnections.tribalpages.com/fa ... ton-Family

25 Dec 1920 High Street Primitive Methodist Church Blackheath
Samuel Luther NEALE 22 B Commercial Clerk 51 New England Hill Halesowen Father Samuel Neale Assayer Gold & Silver
May Bloemfontein CRUMPTON 19 S 15 Hackett Street Blackheath Rowley Regis Father George Crumpton Mortar Mill Hand
According to Rites and Ceremonies of the Primitive Methodists Both Signed
Wit; William Thomas ---?unreadable / Zelpha? Louise? Worrall

Cheers Rocky

Connected up - http://bcconnections.tribalpages.com/fa ... ale-Family

Jimmy wrote:West Midlands Marriage indexes for the years: 1882.
CRUMPTON George. STRINGER Martha. Dudley, St Thomas. Dudley Register Office. 204/037/89.

Thanks for the look up RF - http://bcconnections.tribalpages.com/fa ... ton-Family

added all I can, thanks for everyone's help

Can be archived now please