Thomas Bond of Lancaster

Lancaster merchant, business associate and probably partner with Thomas Rawlinson (q.v.) and uncle of John Bond of Lancaster (q.v.). Baptised at St Cuthbert, Carlisle, the son of John Bond of Gaitsgill.

1. The will of Thomas Bond Esq. dated 22/04/1817 is in the Lancashire Archives. Under the will, Thomas Bond left land and buildings in Lancaster and Over Kellett as well as property in the West Indies including enslaved people. The primary beneficiary was his nephew John Bond, to whom he left 'all those my nine undivided fourteenth parts' of Broom Hall Plantation in Demerary with 'all the negroes, cattle, building stock' etc. upon it, and the Lancaster plantation in Berbice, together with 18 shares in the Lancaster Canal, a house in Dalton Square, Yealand Hall (at Yealand Redmayne, Carnforth, Lancs.) and other land holdings in Britain.

2. Simon Bond, the younger brother of Thomas Bond, died on Grenada aged 30 in 1790 .

1. Lancashire Archives W/RW/A/R129/43. This summary of the will is based on extracts kindly supplied by Ann Ranshaw.

2. Margaret J Ferguson (ed.), The Monumental Inscriptions in the Church & Churchyard of St Cuthbert Carlisle (1889) p. 97.

We are grateful to Ann Ranshaw for her help with this entry.