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Note: N531 chr John Boond s. of William of the Roe was borne December 2 about ten of the clock of the night and was baptized December 6 1675
Church of England. Parish Church of North Meols, Lancashire, England (Lancashire). Bishop's transcripts, 1068943 searched for Chr didn't find.
North Meols, Lancashire, England and Southport A History by Peter Aughton. Appendices pg 207.
Marriage John Boond Ann Stevenson 15 May 1697
Mar 1705 John Boond Ann Johnson 23 October
IGI Howard 159,161
Weathercock Farm, Birkdale
Weathercock Farm stood on the south-eastern perimeter of Birkdale Common, which was the centre of the township of Birkdale until the mid-nineteenth century. the ancient Mosss Lane, mentioned in leases, was close by the farmhouse, merging with other lanes giving access to the north and to the south of Birkdale, and away to the Isle of Wight Farm and to Halsall.
In modern terms the farm would be sited on the south side of Norfolk Road, with an orchard towards Liverpool Road and a stack-yard towards Shaftesbury Road, the house lying between the two. It is possible that the building had two distinct phases in its history. being originally just a single-storey cottage, with a two-storey brick house added in the early years of the nineteenth century by the Blundells, who were in occupation by them.
Leases of the eighteenth century give some clues to finding the earlier occupiers. In the year 1730, reference was made in a lease to an area of land and to a dwelling. ‘William Boond’s Hey’ and ‘William Boond’s tenement’, which coincided with the fields and farm which were later to be called Weathercock Farm. The Boond (Bond) family originated in Churchtown in The Rowe. The first one to come to Birkdale was a John Bond, whose entry in the North Meols, Lancashire, England register, with a nice attention to detail, tells that ‘he was borne on December the 2nd about ten of the clock of the night and was baptized on December 6th, 1675’. Among John’s many children was the above William who, in 1723, married Marjorie Balshaw at St. Cuthbert’s Church. It seems likely that his tenancy of the farm would start about the time of his marriage: by the year 1737, however, the tenement had passed to the Marshall family, and they were to be closely connected with the farm for the rest of its history.
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