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Henry Bond jnr. was born in April 1843 at Arrad
Foot in the parish of Egton-cum-Newland, near Ulverston, the first son
of Capt. Henry and Jane Bond. In the 1851
Census he was listed as a scholar aged 7, and he probably went to the new
National School at Penny Bridge. Henry joined his father, who was master
of the schooner
Eliza
Bond,
and served as mate on this vessel until his father's death
in 1866. He then became master himself, and also assumed ownership of his
father's shares in the vessel at this time. The schooner plied in the coastal
trade, mainly from the ports of Furness and Cumberland to the Mersey and
the Dee.
It was almost certainly on one of the trips to Ellesmere Port that Capt.
Bond met his future wife. Mary Williams was from Eastham, at the sea end
of the Manchester Ship Canal. Henry and Mary were married there in August
1869. The following month, the Ashburner schooner Henry
& Mary was launched. Capt. Bond spent his remaining time at
sea as master of this vessel. |
