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Abram Bond family Fonds
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Abram Bond family fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- GMD
- textual records
- graphic material
- Date Range
- 1836-1999
- Accession Number
- 2001-02
- Storage Location
- R6 S6 Sh3 B2
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Abram Bond family fonds
- Creator
- Abram Bond
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Accession Number
- 2001-02
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 107
- Storage Location
- R6 S6 Sh3 B2
- GMD
- textual records
- graphic material
- Date Range
- 1836-1999
- Physical Description
- 12 cm of textual records
- 9 photographs : b&w
- History / Biographical
- Abram Bond was born on January 11, 1838. His parents were Thomas and Sarah Bond. His siblings were Harriet, Thomas, David, and Frances Ann.
- On May 22, 1869, he left London, England on the ship "American Union," and arrived in London, Ontario on July 8, 1869.
- Abram Bond married Elizabeth Ann (Edes) Nunn on August 24, 1872 in London, Ontario. Together they had seven children - Arthur, George, Emma, Fredrick, Charles, Rosa, and Thomas.
- The Bond, Nunn, Edes, and Geach families moved to Perry Township in the Perry Sound District in 1879 - part of the Free Grants and Homestead Act in Ontario.
- Abram moved to St. Thomas in 1887 and worked as a carpenter in the car shops for the Michigan Central Railway. He died on July 17, 1906.
- Scope and Content
- This fonds consists of various documents and photographs relating to Abram Bond and his family, including father-in-law John Edes and son Charles Abram Bond.
- The fonds is divided into the following series:
- 1. Correspondence (Abram Bond), 1869-1903
- 2. Travel Documents and Journal (Abram Bond), 1869
- 3. British Navy and London Metropolitan Police records (John Edes), 1836-1891
- 4. Photographs (Abram Bond family), 1881-1945
- 5. Legal Documents (Abram Bond family), 1868-1954
- 6. Miscellaneous records (Bond family), 1849-1999
- Name Access
- Bond, Abram
- Bond, Abram (family)
- Edes, John
- Bond, Charles
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