Rebecca Robinson (née Bond)

Profile & Legacies Summary

1745 - 1834

Biography

Co-heiress with her sister Sarah Wilkinson of their uncles Thomas Bond (q.v.) and William Bond (q.v.), the owners of the Mona estate in Jamaica, and party to the Chancery suit of Wilkinson v Rutherford. The two women were the daughters of Richard Bond.

28[th May 1795] [Marriage of] 'Rev. Isaac Robinson to Miss Rebecca Bond of Alderbury [sic: in fact Adderbury] House, niece and co-heiress of Mr W.[illiam] B.[ond] of Park Hill Surrey, an amiable lady, with a fortune of 6000l a year.'
Rebecca Robinson, age 89, of Milford? Lymington, Hampshire, was buried 07/05/1834 at Culworth, Northamptonshire. Will of Rebecca Robinson [late of Culworth in the county of Northampton but now] of Great Shelsley Worcestershire widow proved 05/07/1834. After monetary legacies to her servants, she left her estate including her reversionary interest in unspecified property in Jamaica to the Rev. Thomas Robinson of Great Shelsley. She referred to her sister Sarah Field as dead without issue.

Sources

Gentleman's Magazine Vol. 65 Part 1 (1795) p. 525.
Findmypast, Northamptonshire Burials [database online]. PROB 11/1834/258.

We are grateful to William Norton for his assistance with compiling this entry.

Further Information

Absentee?

British/Irish

Maiden Name

Bond

Spouse

Rev. Isaac Robinson

Associated Estates (3)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

SD - Association Start Date
SY - Association Start Year
EA - Earliest Known Association
ED - Association End Date
EY - Association End Year
LA - Latest Known Association

1794 [SY] - 1834 [EY] → Heir

Cardiff [ Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-East, Surrey ]

Co-heiress with her sister Sarah Wilkinson (later Field) nee Bond under the will of their uncle William Bond (d. 1794) and party to the suit of Rutherford v Wilkinson into which was later paid the compensation for the estate.

1794 [SY] - 1834 [EY] → Heir

Mona Estate [ Jamaica | St Andrew ]

Co-heir with her sister Sarah Wilkinson (later Field) under the will of their uncle William Bond (d. 1794).

1794 [SY] - 1834 [EY] → Heir

Spring Estate [ Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-East, Surrey ]

Co-heiress with her sister Sarah Wilkinson later Field nee Bond under the will of their uncle William Bond (d. 1794), and party to the suit of Rutherford v Wilkinson into which the compensation for the estate was later paid.