Acklam Rickaby BONDFIELD was born in Yorkshire in 1742 to John Taylor BONDFIELD and his wife Anna Maria . He moved with his family to Canada in the early 1760s.
Acklam Bondfield married Marie-Madeleine Françoise Martel de Brouage Brourouac on 4th May 1762 in Quebec. Her father Francois Martel de Brouage was Commandant of the Labrador coast, and a merchant and shipowner and her mother Madeleine-Louise Moriauchau from was from Esgly.
Acklom Rickaby Bondfield, merchant, of London, applied for a grant with the Board of Trade at the Bay Phelypeaux on the Labrador Coast of Canada in 1763.
Together with his brother John Bondfield and brother-in -law George Allsopp, Akclam Bondfield became a prosperous merchant and highly respected citizen in Quebec.
As conflict arose between the British and Americans in 1775, Acklam Bondfield's sympathy fell with French Canadians and their American neighbours . The Bondfield brothers provided support and assistance to the American invading army wherever possible but when the Americans abandoned Montréal on 9 May, 1776 and the remainder of their forces were defeated at Trois Rivieres in June, the brothers had to flee from Canada to Philadelphia.
Acklam Rickaby Bondfield left his elderly parents, his wife and young children behind in Sainte-Foy, Quebec never to return.
This couple had 8 children between 1765 and 1776. At least 5 survived to adulthood.
Aclam Bondfield died unexpectedly in Philadelphia on April 25th, 1777, at the age of thirty-seven, and was buried in Christ Church yard.
His obituary in the Pennsylvania Gazette named him A FORGOTTEN PATRIOT.
Acklam Bondfield married Marie-Madeleine Françoise Martel de Brouage Brourouac on 4th May 1762 in Quebec. Her father Francois Martel de Brouage was Commandant of the Labrador coast, and a merchant and shipowner and her mother Madeleine-Louise Moriauchau from was from Esgly.
Acklom Rickaby Bondfield, merchant, of London, applied for a grant with the Board of Trade at the Bay Phelypeaux on the Labrador Coast of Canada in 1763.
Together with his brother John Bondfield and brother-in -law George Allsopp, Akclam Bondfield became a prosperous merchant and highly respected citizen in Quebec.
As conflict arose between the British and Americans in 1775, Acklam Bondfield's sympathy fell with French Canadians and their American neighbours . The Bondfield brothers provided support and assistance to the American invading army wherever possible but when the Americans abandoned Montréal on 9 May, 1776 and the remainder of their forces were defeated at Trois Rivieres in June, the brothers had to flee from Canada to Philadelphia.
Acklam Rickaby Bondfield left his elderly parents, his wife and young children behind in Sainte-Foy, Quebec never to return.
This couple had 8 children between 1765 and 1776. At least 5 survived to adulthood.
Aclam Bondfield died unexpectedly in Philadelphia on April 25th, 1777, at the age of thirty-seven, and was buried in Christ Church yard.
His obituary in the Pennsylvania Gazette named him A FORGOTTEN PATRIOT.
Acklam Rickaby BONDFIELD was born in Yorkshire in 1742 to John Taylor BONDFIELD and his wife Anna Maria . He moved with his family to Canada in the early 1760s.
Acklam Bondfield married Marie-Madeleine Françoise Martel de Brouage Brourouac on 4th May 1762 in Quebec. Her father Francois Martel de Brouage was Commandant of the Labrador coast, and a merchant and shipowner and her mother Madeleine-Louise Moriauchau from was from Esgly.
Acklom Rickaby Bondfield, merchant, of London, applied for a grant with the Board of Trade at the Bay Phelypeaux on the Labrador Coast of Canada in 1763.
Together with his brother John Bondfield and brother-in -law George Allsopp, Akclam Bondfield became a prosperous merchant and highly respected citizen in Quebec.
As conflict arose between the British and Americans in 1775, Acklam Bondfield's sympathy fell with French Canadians and their American neighbours . The Bondfield brothers provided support and assistance to the American invading army wherever possible but when the Americans abandoned Montréal on 9 May, 1776 and the remainder of their forces were defeated at Trois Rivieres in June, the brothers had to flee from Canada to Philadelphia.
Acklam Rickaby Bondfield left his elderly parents, his wife and young children behind in Sainte-Foy, Quebec never to return.
This couple had 8 children between 1765 and 1776. At least 5 survived to adulthood.
Aclam Bondfield died unexpectedly in Philadelphia on April 25th, 1777, at the age of thirty-seven, and was buried in Christ Church yard.
His obituary in the Pennsylvania Gazette named him A FORGOTTEN PATRIOT.
Acklam Bondfield married Marie-Madeleine Françoise Martel de Brouage Brourouac on 4th May 1762 in Quebec. Her father Francois Martel de Brouage was Commandant of the Labrador coast, and a merchant and shipowner and her mother Madeleine-Louise Moriauchau from was from Esgly.
Acklom Rickaby Bondfield, merchant, of London, applied for a grant with the Board of Trade at the Bay Phelypeaux on the Labrador Coast of Canada in 1763.
Together with his brother John Bondfield and brother-in -law George Allsopp, Akclam Bondfield became a prosperous merchant and highly respected citizen in Quebec.
As conflict arose between the British and Americans in 1775, Acklam Bondfield's sympathy fell with French Canadians and their American neighbours . The Bondfield brothers provided support and assistance to the American invading army wherever possible but when the Americans abandoned Montréal on 9 May, 1776 and the remainder of their forces were defeated at Trois Rivieres in June, the brothers had to flee from Canada to Philadelphia.
Acklam Rickaby Bondfield left his elderly parents, his wife and young children behind in Sainte-Foy, Quebec never to return.
This couple had 8 children between 1765 and 1776. At least 5 survived to adulthood.
Aclam Bondfield died unexpectedly in Philadelphia on April 25th, 1777, at the age of thirty-seven, and was buried in Christ Church yard.
His obituary in the Pennsylvania Gazette named him A FORGOTTEN PATRIOT.
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