When Emma Elizabeth Atherstone was born on 4 January 1845, in Islington, London, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Henry Atherstone, was 32 and her mother, Mary Shelton, was 36. She married Thomas Bond on 23 January 1867, in Kingston, Surrey, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Islington St Mary, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom in 1851. She died in 1875, in Kingston, Surrey, England, at the age of 30.