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You may wish to check out the Bone Forum on Genforum. There is much research on the Bone name. Particulary there is a posting by Molly Louise Shepard (see posting #55) that gives a lot of the orgins and descendency of this line. It begins out.... "Early genealogical records place the Bone family surname in Scotland in the year 975. Once the surname was le Bon. Originally, it was deBohon. Early family documents, letters and manuscripts written by early Bonegenologists make mention of the Bohon origin of the Bone family.
The surname of Bone is traced by elymologists to an area in the Contention Peninsula of Normandy. This area, known as the De Bohon Fife in the Middle Ages, is located in the district of St. Lo. The two villages of St. Andre-de-Bohon and St. George-de-Bohon, which were founded in the 10th century, are still in existence.
As far as is known, Henry de Bohon and family owned land and were living there in the year 975. Henry's forefathers were Vikings who settled in that area. There is a record of a Henry de Bohon, who during the last quarter of the 10th century was a loyal supporter of Richard 1, third Duke of Normandy (932-96), during border warfare......"
The article goes on to tell of the descedency and how our line evolved down through Sir Humphrey DeBohun, King Henry and on into today's Bone's in America. The article is long but very informative. I am not sure how much is validated, however I do know that Molly Shepard is a playwriter and has done extensive research on it.
Additionaly she has some postings about Caldicott Castle which was in the DeBohun care for nearly a century and I personally found quite interesting. There is a link to it in message 542 under the Bone forum.
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