I
had two comments recently on an original post from 13
October 2015. One was from a fifth great-granddaughter of a person I had
named in the story. Her comment is published with the blog post and read:
What
a fantastic find for me! Ann Rice Bond who married David Dunn is my 5
great-grandmother. I was not aware of the Bond name & could find nothing
further about her family. I was also having trouble figuring out why the second
name of Andrews was given to a number of her children. All explained above with
the addition of her parents!
It’s
really great when you can provide some information that directly helps another
person seeking their ancestors. That’s one of the reasons I am an OPC.
Anyway,
Kerrie had never been able to find out why different second names had made in
into her family tree. As it happens, serendipity prevailed and she found my
post that gave her the clues.
Just
to summarize what was in the October post, her 6X great-grandmother was Sarah
Bond who eventually married an Amos Rice but apparently not before they had
several children together. The question is whether they were living in sin or
were prevented by other reasons (perhaps a former spouse still alive?) from
getting married until they did. Sarah and Amos married 13 April 1784. Prior to
that date the following children were baptized in Plympton St. Mary parish
church:
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The
couple do not appear to have had any children baptized with the surname Rice after
their marriage.
Young
Sarah married Robert Andrews and that surname, for some reason ended up in the
family of Ann Rice Bond and David Dunn. Two of their eight children had Andrews
as a second name. Both being soldiers it seems possible the men were also close
friends which led to the use of the name although the same was not reciprocated
in the Andrews family as only one child appears to have had a second name and
that was Damerell.
Anyway,
it is curious how information can be found about families, in this case through
a blog post that was intended to show how relationships were formed and
recorded not to highlight the history of a particular family.
Wayne Shepheard is a volunteer with the Online Parish Clerk program in England, handling four
parishes in Devon, England. He has published a
number of articles about various aspects of genealogy and is the Editor of Relatively Speaking, the
quarterly journal of the Alberta
Genealogical Society. Wayne also provides genealogical consulting services
through his business, Family History Facilitated.
