Dennis Bond

Denis Bond came from an old Dorset family which settled in the County during the reign of Henry VI (i.e.1422-1460).1 His grandson Denis seems to have had great pride in his descent, for he drew up in 1636 and had engrossed on vellum an elaborate account of his own pedigree. Bonds chronology notes the arrival in Dorset in 1453 of an ancestor from Somerset just before the fall of Constantinople to the Turks. Thereafter family births, marriages and deaths follow thick and fast and in the original version of the chronology a large proportion of the entries were of this kind. Grandson Denis later added many entries dealing with civil wars and revolutions. Like most men of his position Dennis Bond was anxious to establish the antiquity of his family and be accepted as a gentleman. He jotted down genealogical notes on the Bonds and various related families, and when the heraldic Visitation of the county took place in 1623 he registered the family pedigree and paid the fee. He retained a healthy scepticism however adding "I believe it not" when he acquired a fraudulent pedigree tracing the Bonds all the way back to the eleventh century, but his reasons were it came from a "popish" source, so there may be some truth in it. The genealogy is said to be in the Dorset Records office.

Marriage:

Dennis BOND (1500?-1560) of Lutton near Steeple in Dorset and Alice SAMWAYS (1517-1595) of Toller Pocorum which is situated about 8 miles north east of Bridport. Lutton was the largest farm within the parish of Steeple . They married in 1532/3 and raised a large family at Lutton, of which I have located the following children most of which were baptised at the nearby parish church of St. Michael's, Steeple.

Children:

Robert BOND (? – 1582) the eldest son married on 8th October 1565 to Avis the daughter of Robert CLAVELL of Winfrith Newburgh but died without surviving male heirs. Robert being buried in Steeple on 18 Oct 15824. Avis remarried on 8 Dec 1585 to William GOULD of West Holme.

Dennis BOND (1566-1587 ) Baptised at Steeple on 19 Feb. 1566 4: Buried at Steeple 28 aug 1587;

Elizabeth BOND ( 1569- ?) Baptised at Steeple on 1 Oct 1569;

Mary BOND (1575- ?) Baptised at Steeple on 1 July 1575;

Roger BOND (1577- ?) Baptised at Steeple on 5 Apr 1577;

Jane BOND (1579-?) Baptised at Steeple on 20 January 1579/80;

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