Brief Life History of Avicia
When Avicia Bond was born about 1523, in Buckland St Mary, Somerset, England, her father, Willyam Bond, was 31 and her mother, Dyonice Bourman, was 18. She married Gulielmi Holcombe about 1541, in Somerset, England. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She died in 1572, in South Perrott, Dorset, England, at the age of 50, and was buried in South Perrott, Dorset, England.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Avis Bond - birth: after 1532; Buckland, Somerset, England, United Kingdom
- Avetæ Holcombe in entry for Henricus Chubb and Aliciam Holcombe, "England, Dorset, Parish Registers, 1538-2001"
- Aves Holcombe, "England, Dorset, Parish Registers, 1538-2001"
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1549 · Book of Common Prayer
Book of Common Prayer, a product of the English Reformation, was published in 1549 for assistance in the administration of the sacraments and other rites and ceremonies of the church according to the use of the Church of England. The book outlined morning, evening, and communion prayers and orders for baptism and marriage, thus making England a truly Protestant state.
1558 · Act of Uniformity
The Act of Uniformity was passed by the Parliament of England and required all people to go to church once a week. The consequence of not attending church was a fine of 12 pence, which was a considerable amount for a poor person.
1569 · State Lottery
A State Lottery was recorded in 1569. The tickets were sold at St. Paul's Cathedral in London.
Name Meaning
English: status name for a peasant farmer or husbandman, Middle English bond(e), bounde, occasionally bande ‘bondman, customary tenant, serf’ (Old English bonda, bunda, reinforced by Old Norse bóndi). The Old Norse word was also in use as a personal name (Old Norse Bóndi, Bondi, Bundi, Bonde, borrowed as late Old English Bonda), and this has given rise to other English and Scandinavian surnames alongside those originating as status names, such as the Middle English personal name Bonde. The status of the peasant farmer fluctuated considerably during the Middle Ages; moreover, the underlying ancient Germanic word is of disputed origin and meaning. Among ancient Germanic peoples who settled to an agricultural life, the term came to signify a farmer holding lands from, and bound by loyalty to, a lord; from this developed the sense of a free landholder as opposed to a serf. In England after the Norman Conquest the word sank in status and became associated with the notion of bound servitude. The name can also be a variant of Band .
Swedish: variant of Bonde .
In some cases also an American shortened form of Ukrainian Bondarenko and possibly also of some other surname beginning with Bond-.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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