Thanks Angie, and I am anxiously awaiting the remainder. Joy At 11:01 PM 1/5/99 -0500, you wrote: >GENEALOGICAL and HISTORICAL SKETCH -- BOND >Compiled by: THE MEDIA RESEARCH BUREAU >1110 F. Street, Washington, D.C. > >Page 1 > > THE BONDS AND THEIR NAME > >It is said that the name of BOND was not originally a family name but was >the name given to a class of Norse landholders. The Norse Bonde was the man >next in position to the Earl. Many of the Bondes of Norway emigrated to >England long before the Norman conquest in 1066, and there the name of Bonde >or Bond originated. > >One of the Earliest records of the family of Bond is that of the marriage of >a Robert Bonde to Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of the ancient house of >Earth, Cornwall, England. Robert and Elizabeth ere the parents of 2 sons, >Robert and Richard. Of these, Robert founded the Dorsetshire branch in the >year 1431 and Richard remained at Earth, where another large branch of the >family was to be located. In 1529, a William Bond was seated at Earth. He >was succeeded by his son Richard, who married Elizabeth Coriton and had >William, his heir and Thomas who was removed to Holwood and then to Fulham >and was the father of a son named William. Thomas of Holwood and Fulham is >commemorated in the last name place by a stone which bears the following >inscription: > > "At Earth in Cornwall was my firste beginnings > From Bondes and Corringtons, as it may apere; > Now to Earth in Fulham God disposed my endings > In March the thousand and six hundred yere > Of Christ, in whome my body here doth rest, > Tyll both in body and soule I shall be fully blest." > >The Dorsetshire Branch from Robert Bonde of 1431 was located at the Isle of >Purbeck. This Robert was the father of another Robert, who married Mary, >daughter of Sir John Hody, and had 2 sons, William and John. Of these, >William was the father of Robert, Dannys, Mary, Edeth, Jone, and John. >John, son of Robert and Mary, was the father of Sir Nicholas Bond, >progenitor of the famous London branch of the family. > >There were also families of the name in Scotland, Ireland, and Wales at the >beginning of the 17th century which were originally of the same English >stock. Many of the younger sons of these various branches emigrated to >America at this time and in the following century. > >One of the first of the family to come over was William Bond, who is >believed to have settled at Watertown, Mass., as early as 1630. He was the >son of a Thomas Bond of Bury St.. Edmonds, County of Suffolk, England. >William was married about 1649 to Sarah Briscoe and had issue by her of >William, John, Thomas, Elizabeth, Nathaniel, Sarah, Jonas, and Mary. >William was married in 1695 to Elizabeth Nevinson but died the same year >without further issue. > >Of the daughters of William of Watertown, Elizabeth married Nathaniel >Barsham, Sarah married Palsgrave Wellington and Mary married Richard >Coolidge. > >Oh...Oh.. I am sorry. I will finish this sketch tomorrow. I got so excited >about the WELLINGTON surname.....Did you see it?.......Did you? That I had >to send a couple other e-mails to tell that the WELLINGTON surname has shown >up. I, PROMISE, to complete this sketch!!!!! > >Angie >jadds@bellatlantic.net > >