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William Bond and Sarah Acton

The marriage of William Bond to Sarah Acton has been a boon to my forward movement, at the beginning, their research led me to a small introduction to the richer more historically significant records in my family. Their Marriage, 02/05/1786. Lewisham St Paul, Deptford England.

St Paul's Deptford was consecrated in 1730 and designed by Thomas Archer in his usual Roman Baroque style, in the year 2000 the east end was damaged by fire, where some stained glass was lost. Today if we were to enter the main doors of St Paul's we would still be able to appreciate the historic significance of the building to the family. There are photographs of the interior online for the family to enjoy, who can not visit in person. Though it is going on three hundred years since their marriage we are still able to get a very clear and almost palpable understanding of their marriage day, within our imagination. From the very beginning since joining Ancestry, I have had an almost unquenchable desire to get into my family's everyday lives by scrutinising aspects and facts in their records. I encourage all family historians to not just document the record but also the facts behind the place where the event took place to add an enriched insight into their lives. Sarah’s father was John Acton and her mother was Sarah Ann Badcock, their marriage was also at the same St Paul, Deptford England as Sarah and William Bond in the year 21/5/1765, which adds more reason to look into the history of St Paul, Deptford. I was able to discover that John Acton my fourth great-grandfather was a lighterman/pilot at Deptford Royal Dockyard.

Deptford Dockyard has a history of being the major warship building and maintenance docks to the Royal Navy for a period of three hundred years, founded in 1513 by King Henry VIII. Facts such as these give me a tremendous amount of satisfaction and enjoyment for hours on end in researching and documenting material in family records.

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Events

Event	Date	Place	Description	Sources
Birth	1766

Death	1841

Parents

Relation to main person	Name	Birth date	Death date
Father	Acton, John	1744-03-18	1823-07-11
Mother	Badcock, Sarah Ann	1744	1782-12-00
	Acton, Sarah	1766	1841
Sister	Acton, Elizabeth	1767	1849-03-31
Sister	Acton, Catherine	1768	1851
Sister	Acton, Ann	1769	April 1769
Sister	Acton, Ann	1769	April 1769
Brother	Acton, John Cook	1772	1847-01-00
Brother	Acton, Charles	1772	1845
Sister	Acton, Sophia	1774	1825
Sister	Acton, Charlotte	1778	19 June 1856
Sister	Acton, Maria	1779	20 December 1843
Sister	Acton, Harriet	1780	4 November 1781
Brother	Acton, William	1781	15 June 1781
Brother	Acton, Ambrose	1784	26 September 1785
Brother	Acton, Robert James	3 January 1790	14 August 1870
Sister	Acton, Rebecca Ann	1791-09-12	1863-07-01
Sister	Acton, Louisa	26 September 1793	1876