Brief Life History of Norma Sue
When Norma Sue Bond was born on 23 May 1933, in Mission, Hidalgo, Texas, United States, her father, Sydney Walker Bond, was 32 and her mother, Patricia Anna Trainor, was 22. She married Arthur Grant Fergus. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Oakland, Alameda, California, United States in 1940 and Berkeley, Alameda, California, United States in 1950. She died on 29 October 1999, in Rockville, Montgomery, Maryland, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Arlington, Virginia, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (12)
- Norma S Bond, "United States 1950 Census"
- Norma Sue Band, "Texas, Birth Certificates, 1903-1935"
- Norma Fergus, "BillionGraves Index"
Spouse and Children
1929– Male
1933–1999 Female
Children (1)
1960–1964 Male
Parents and Siblings
1900–1942 Male
1910–2006 Female
Siblings (2)
1933–1934 Female
1933–1999 Female
World Events (8)
1935 · The FBI is Established
Age 2
1941 · Pentagon is Built in Arlington
Age 8
1951 · The Twenty-Second Amendment
Age 18
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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