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- Lord Mayor of Liverpool, 1802-3
Bold Street, Liverpool, was named after Jonas Bold, a noted slave merchant, sugar trader and banker. He leased the land from Liverpool Corporation around 1785-6. He also owned a plot at the top of the street, which is now the site of St Luke's Church.
- (Research):The Bold family, of the Lancashire township bearing the same name, trace their origins back to Anglo-Saxon times before the Norman Conquest of 1066. The earliest known record mentions a William de Bold in 1154, but it is thought that the foundations Bold Hall (old hall) were laid well before that.
It was in 1402, that John de Bold was the garrison commander who defended Caernarfon Castle against Owen Glendower. He was subsequently knighted, made Sir Constable of the Castle and was granted 5000 acres at Bold. In 1407 Sir John became the High Sheriff of Lancashire, and held the post until his death in 1410, the first of six Bold family descendants to hold that office. It was he who in 1406 had founded the Chantry, which is now the site of Bold Chapel in St Luke's, (formerly St Wilfrid's) Farnworth in Widnes. Later, his son Thomas de Bold fought alongside King Henry V at Agincourt 1415.
By 1588 the Bold family held extensive lands in Lancashire, with estates amounting to some 33,000 acres with 2,000 retainers helping maintain them. Their estates extended as far as Buckinghamshire and Yorkshire, and minor branches of the family also had holdings in Ireland.
In more recent times, in 1802 Jonas Bold became the Lord Mayor of Liverpool and Bold Street in that city is named after him.
In 1829 Sir Henry Bold-Hoghton, also High Sheriff of Lancashire, married Dorothea Patten-Bold the daughter of Peter Patten-Bold.
The family also has royal connections, in the personage of Mary Patten-Bold (1795-1824), daughter of Peter Patten-Bold and Mary Patten-Bold (nee Parker). Mary was married to Prince Sapieha (Ostafi Eustace Sapieha Rozanski), of Dereczym in the Duchy of Lithuania.
The Bold family are represented in the Knowsley Coat of Arms, the Halton Coat of Arms and the old St Helens Coat of Arms.
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