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Lancashire / Re: Boond St, Salford
« on: Thursday 07 March 24 00:29 GMT (UK) »
I am currently researching the Boond family. Son of a labourer, Thomas was baptized in Rostherne in 1739. As this is where the Leigh family attended church, they must have known each other. Thomas and his brother Peter came to Manchester in 1775 to purchase part of Ancoats from the Leigh family (I have no idea where they got the money) and then sold it to developers, thus igniting the Industrial Revolution. Bntil he went bankrupts.oth Peter and Thomas had children, and Thomas's son, John, held property in Salford until he went bankrupt.