Douglas, thanks for your info. Joy At 03:45 PM 1/5/99 -0500, you wrote: > >>Can anyone provide illumination of the BONDS OF EARTH? Where was Earth >>supposed to have been? From where did this information come? > >Earth is in the County of Cornwall, England (SW Eng.). The Doomsday Book >and other ancient documents in England list numerous estates held by families >of the BOND name. They held estates in Cornwall, Dorset, Essex, Kent, Hants, >Berks, Bedford, Suffolk, Gloucester, Northampton and York. In several of >these counties they held two or more estates. Whether these were held >by a few wealthy families or by as many families as there were estates, >was unknown to the researchers that I've been able to reference. > >Many of the more distinguished BOND families from roughly the 15th through >the 18th centuries trace their lineage to Earth and Holewood in the County >of Cornwall. > >-Donald Phillips Bond > > >