Alfred Bond: Landowner, Rector and Rascal
This is the story of my mysterious grandmother, Christine Cambridge , who was born in about 1881 and adopted by Daniel and Sandys Rann in Birmingham. Christine never knew her birth parents, but DNA evidence proves that she was the grandchild of Alfred and Georgianna Eliza Bond of Freston in Suffolk . Alfred received a comfortable income as Rector of Freston, but he was also a substantial landowner in his own right, and seems to have enjoyed the pleasures of a country squire without suffering too much inconvenience at the hands of his parishioners. Georgianna's parents, Joseph Sidney Tharp and Anna Maria Gent, will have provided her with a generous marriage portion, invested to generate an annual income, and she also inherited big wodge of cash from her uncle, George William Gent of Moyns Park . Georgianna's grave in Freston Despite all of this, in March 1878, local newspapers reported that Alfred's creditors had arranged a meeting to determine whether or not he shoul