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