John Nelson Bond

Partner in Bond & Pearse (q.v.) West India merchants of Finsbury Place. Presumably son of the John Bond who was a partner in the predecessor firm of Ede & Bond. It has been inferred but not demonstrated that John Nelson Bond and John Bond the younger (who appears as a counterclaimant with Henry Pearse in one of the two awards for Amity Hall) are the same man.

1. Baptism of John Nelson Bond, son of John Bond and Margaret at Dr Williams Library London 02/10/1798. Marriage of John Nelson Bond of Albany Street Regents Park with Mary Connop widow at St Georges Bloomsbury 10/02/1831. In 1851 he was living at Cheriton in Kent as a retired West India merchant aged 52 with Mary aged 66, and a sister Elizabeth, age 23. Elizabeth was the daughter of his father's second marriage, to Elizabeth Ellicot Burch, 24/10/1820, born c. 1828.

2. Death of John Nelson Bond was registered Q2 1878 Newton Abbott Devon aged 80. Will of John Nelson Bond formerly of 21 Langham Street Great Portland Street but late of Torquay proved 29/05/1878 by Edward Bond, brother, a retired Lt-Colonel, personal estate under £450.

3. John Nelson Bond was in litigation against his former partners Henry Pearse and William Dimsdale Child in 1843.

1. Ancestry.com, England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 [database online]; Ancestry.com, London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 [database online]; 1851 census online. The European Magazine and London Review Vol. 78 p. 469 (November 1820). Ancestry.com, London and Surrey, England, Marriage Bonds and Allegations, 1597-1921 [database online].

2. FreeUKGen, England and Wales Free BMD Database, Deaths, 1837-1983 [database online]; National Probate Calendar 1878.

3. TNA C 14/43/B83.

We are grateful to Rosemary Bentley for her assistance with compiling this entry.