Bond, a landed gentleman

     Non Sufficit Orbis  - The World is Not Enough 

 

 

 

                               

                                                                Forest of Inglewood

JOHN BOND of Lancaster in the County palatine of Lancaster

 

On the 9th November 1812, at the public Auction held at the “Crown and Mitre Inn”, in the City of Carlisle, Cumberland.  JOHN BOND of Lancaster in the County palatine of Lancaster Esquire purchased a parcel of land containing Two Hundred and Forty Six Acres One Rood and Six perches, at “Monk Castle Hill” in the landed Forest of Inglewood, at a cost of Two Thousand Five Hundred Pounds.

The land was presented for Auction by the appointed commissioner’s John Sadler of Fritington, John Machell of Low Plains, and John Fryer of Newcastle upon Tyne, who by an Act of Parliament passed in the Forty third year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third, were enacted to Bargain and Sell the land, with the Intent being certified under seal in the presence of witness. 

The land was bounded on the East by the Kings Highway leading from the City of Carlisle to the Village of Calthwaite in the County of Cumberland, on the West by the land of Richard Bell and William Hack, on the North by a public Road from Gaitsgill to the Village of Broughthwaite, and on the South by the Lands of Isaac Parker and John Gale Esquires.

The Act of Parliament was for the delivering and Inclosing the Commons and Waste Lands within the several parishes of Penrith Edenhall Salkeld, otherwise Great Salkeld, Lazonby, Hesket Netheral Hutton, and Newton the Townships of Middlescough and Braithwaite in the parish of Saint Mary, Carlisle, and the Townships of Raugton and Gaitsgill and Ivegill in the parish of Dalston in the ‘Honor of Penrith’ and the Forest of Inglewood in the County of Cumberland.

 (Note: all the above detail taken from a recent purchased sealed Deed certificate).

 

In researching JAMES BOND b. 1780 at Kendal (see page5 of this website), it is reasoned that JOHN BOND born about 1750, at New Hall, Staveley, and AGNES CLERK (married at Heversham on 10th Jan 1774) could be the actual parents of my 3 x Great grandfather James Bond, but no certification is currently available. Incidentally New Hall still remains a farmstead today, but not belonging to any Bond family.

JOHN BOND of New Hall at the turn of the eighteenth century did own many acres of land around Brackenthwaite in the parish of Nether Staveley and across to that in Strickland Roger, and it is feasible that this JOHN BOND is the same person who bought the land at “Monk Castle Hill”.  The parents of John Bond of New Hall were a RICHARD BOND b.1725 Skerton, Lancaster, who married ALICE FAIRCLOUGH at Garstang on 19th Oct 1742.

 

The information now required is confirmation that both the JOHN BOND’S mentioned above are the same person, namely the JOHN BOND who bought the land in “Forest of Inglewood” and the one who farmed at New Hall, Staveley.  JOHN BOND of New Hall may have sold that farmstead thereabout in 1800, returned to his father at Lancaster and then bought the land mentioned at “Monk Castle Hill”, this would maybe satisfy the theory of why James Bond left the farmstead and moved to Huddersfield where he got married in 1801, and later became an Independent Minister at Marsden.  If these two John Bond’s were not the same person, then how were they related?, they both ascend from Lancaster, were both landowners, and were of approximately the same age.

If anyone has any ideas or any information, which may assist this research further, please contact …  Peter.W.Bond

 

 

Rev. 15.04.04