Bond, Richard

Singer

Collection date: Sept 1923

Area: Oxfordshire

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Richard Bond at Idbury (1842-1925): age 81, 1 song ‘Arthur Bradley O’ and 1 morris tune ‘Old Woman tossed up’ (FT4965, 4970) on 10 Sept 1923: Richard Bond was baptised at Fifield on 16/10/1842, 3rd child of Benjamin Bond, agricultural labourer and his wife Elizabeth. Richard married his first wife Mary Wright on 15/4/1865 at Idbury and they had 3 daughters but Mary died in 1888. Richard was remarried to Mary Lambert on 9/12/1890. They had no children. Richard was a carter and an agricultural labourer. He died 15/3/1925.