And that was when I met my x3 great grandparents
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The DNA matches confirmed that we were directly descended from the Reverend Alfred Bond and his wife, Georgianna Eliza Tharp . There's more sciency detail available if you want it, and you can click on their names to look at photos in the National Portrait Gallery collection. The photos show an affluent, confident couple who'd been married for eleven years and, by that date, had six children. They'd go on to have another three, so there were plenty of candidates for the transmission of their genetic material to Christine Cambridge . I haven't been able to confirm which one was her parent for certain, but my money is currently on their fourth son, Gerald Gordon Bond . Future DNA matches could disprove my hunch. Alfred was the youngest of eight children of John Bond (1789-1831) and Emily Dixon (1789-1867). His older brother, John Theodore Bond (1812-1841) died young, leaving the only remaining son to inherit the lion's share of their father's estate. And what a