The Fitz Monument in Tavistock Church.
Floor slab to Joan Bond in St. Stephen's Church, Saltash.
Wall slab to Thomas Bond in Fulham Church.
Wall slab to Bonds in Merton Parish Church, (see wills).
Monuments to William & Martin Bond in St. Helen's, Bishopsgate.

Graves in Bunhill Fields, City Road.

1. Benjamin Bond, died 1763, Miss Bond, 177114, and I believe also John Bond, died 1801, etc. Grave number 6/177.

2. Benjamin Bond, his family grave, died 1838, contains;--- John Bond, brother of Benjamin, Sarah Toller, niece of John Bond.John Toller, nephew of John Bond. Mary Spragg, sister of John Bond, Mary Ann Leathwick, daughter- in-law of John Bond. Benjamin Bond (38) son of Benjamin Bond. Mrs. Ann Bond, wife of Benjamin Bond. And finally Benjamin Bond himself, died May 23rd, 1838, aged 76, banker.15

This grave is in the form of a sarcophagus. The headstone has been broken off, but all the initials are on the footstone, also deteriorating badly. Grave number 15/5. A plan & list of inscriptions taken when legible is in the Guildhall Library nearby.

Grave in Highgate Old Cemetery, no. 3765, square no. 29

Contains;---
George Bond, died 1875.
Carolina Selina Bond, died 1898.
Ellen Campbell, died 1914.
Jessie Isabella Roberts, died 1939.
Frederick Bond, died 1850, aged 2 years.
William Minet, died 1870.
Caroline Bond,--- obliterated --- died --- of Upper Holloway. I expect it says;--"wife of William Minet"., and inscriptions. "Yea, tho' I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, yet will I fear no evil. Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me", and;-- "Her children shall arise and call her blessed".

At Kensal Green and Brighton Downs, the Chubb family.
At Warblington near Havant, the St. Quintin Bond family.
At Hove, Gertrude Kimpton Bigwood.
At Ocklynge Cemetery, Eastbourne, Sx. the George Phillipps Bond family.
At Boreham, Essex, the Rev. Charles Frederick Bond, in parish church.

In St. John's Wood Church, (near Lords Cricket Ground), there is a wall plaque to;---

Benjamin Bond, died 1834, aged 68, of Clapham Terrace.
Charles John Bond, his son, died 1830, aged 24.
William Shaw Bond, died 1846,aged 44.
Elizabeth, widow of Benjamin, died 1867.,

All being buried in Kensal Green Cemetery. The wall plaque gives their coats of arms, his being argent on a chevron sable three bezants, and hers, I do not know the colour of the shield, but it has a chevron between three diamonds, all ermine. I think these people must be connected with our branch of the family. The name Benjamin, and also Charles John, and the shield, all point to it. (See Wills.)

Dionise Bond wife of Thomas Winston with Bond shield & lion in Long Burton Church.

14. Christian name not known. Return

15. I do not think that Benjamin Bond the Banker could have had a previous wife to Ann! as if he had married Olive, there must have been two previous wives and they are not in the family grave in Bunhill Fields, where they surely would have been? I think Mary Olive must have been a previous wife another Benjamin Bond, probably the one commemorated in St. John's Wood Church. He is given as a banker in his marrage notice in the Gentleman's Magazine, but it may have been a mistake for our Benjamin by the editor, (mistakes were frequent), or he may have been a banker too! Perhaps in Surrey. He was not one in London. Return

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