BOUNDS

The surname BOUND or BOUNDS is very common in Herefordshire, England and Radnorshire, Wales.

Samuel BOUNDS (1805-1863), was born in Kinnerton, Old Radnor and married Eleanor SHEPPARD or SHEPHERD (1806-1889) who came from Orleton, Herefordshire.

Samuel and Eleanor had four children, born in Herefordshire:
John (1840-1926)
Samuel b. 1842 - married Annie JONES, 1872
Ellen b.1844 - married John GREGG, 1869
Mary b. 1847 - married Arthur DAVIES, 1870
The family lived in Dilwyn, Herefordshire.

John BOUNDS (1840-1926) married Eleanor Maria EVANS (1844-1930) on 30th September, 1869 at Norton Canon, Herefordshire. They lived at Lowe Farm, Pembridge from the 1870s to around 1916.

John and Eleanor BOUNDS had seven children:

William Bounds
1870-1951
marr. Elizabeth Taylor
no children
Annie Maria Bounds
1873-1952
marr. Edward Lloyd Jenkins
5 children
Elizabeth Sarah Bounds
1874-1927
marr. John Harries
1 daughter
Mary Jane Bounds
1876-1966
marr. Joseph Morris
5 children
Samuel John Bounds
1878-1944
marr. Hilda Watkins
3 sons
Eleanor Harriet Bounds
1880-1965
did not marry
no children
Thomas James Bounds
1882-1966
marr. Mary Preece
1 son

Most of the family were farmers in Herefordshire.

Links
Herefordshire Family History Society - includes a surnames list
Herefordshire Record Office
Powys Family History Society - includes the former Welsh county of Radnorshire
Powys County Archives Office

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Sources: Parish register copies held at Hereford Record Office & the Society of Genealogists; Census returns 1841-1901; Birth, Marriage & Death certificates.

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Updated 18 July, 2011