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Bond
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Burke suggests that the Bond family in Longford were descended from a Yorkshire family who initially settled in County Derry. Devaney states that around 1731 James Bond bought a property known as Newtownflood and renamed it Newtownbond. One of his sons, William, bought the property known as Farragh from the Wilson family c.1780 and his son, Willoughby, lived there subsequently.
William Bond, of Newtownbond, county Longford, is recorded as owning 3100 acres in Longford and over 700 acres in Leitrim in the 1870s. The estate of William and Mary Letitia Bond, nee Lewis, including lands in the baronies of Drumahaire & Leitrim, was offered for sale in the Landed Estates court in November 1877. The Irish Times reported that the purchasers included some of the tenants as well as Lord Leitrim and Mr. O'Beirne, MP. Property in County Longford owned by Jane and Louisa Bond, as well as Samuel Blackall and his wife Catherine was offered for sale in the Landed Estates Court in June 1860. In 1864 over 500 acres in the barony of Granard, the property of William Bond was offered for sale in the Landed Estates Court,
At the time of Griffiths Valuation in the 1850s John Bond was among the principal lessors in the parish of Shrule, barony of Rathcline. Thomas Bond held several townlands in the parish of Kilglass, barony of Ardagh. Alexander Bond was among the principal lessors in the parish of Mostrim, barony of Ardagh.
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Lewis
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The Lewis family held lands in Leitrim, Longford and Roscommon. William Lewis is recorded as a lessor of property in the parish of Kilronan, barony of Boyle, at the time of Griffith's Valuation. The ''Landowners' Survey'' of 1876 notes that Capt. W. Bond, with an address at Edgeworthstown, owned over 300 acres in county Roscommon at that time. In November 1877, over 1000 acres of the estate in the baronies of Dromahaire and Leitrim, county Leitrim and the barony of Boyle, county Roscommon, were offered for sale in the Landed Estates Court by the trustees of the marriage settlement of William Bond and Mary Letitia Bond, nee Lewis. The property had been held under a fee-farm grant dated 1840 between Thomas W. Bond and William Lewis.
William Lewis was among the principal lessors in the parish of Cashel, barony of Rathcline, County Longford, at the time of Griffiths Valuation. Col. Arthur G. Lewis was among the principal lessors in the parish of Abbeylara, barony of Granard, at the same time. Captain H. Loftus Lewis and Henry Owen Lewis both owned over 500 acres in County Longford in the 1870s.
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