The Boyds of Kilmarnock

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trish1
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The Boyds of Kilmarnock

Post by trish1 » Wed Feb 08, 2006 3:34 am

I have a copy of a copy of a family document on the above & I wonder if there is any point in attempting to find any relationship between the families described and my Boyds.

The document looks rather like one received by a cousin of my father's for which he paid a small fortune to an Irish researcher - on a completely different family - but it was somewhat useless for family history.

I googled the "Boyds of Kilmarnock" and there were many articles with similar information as in my document - but I noted that there were two sites describing the "Current Lord Boyd" - one said he lived in Spain, another said the title was for sale :roll: :roll:
so my thoughts are it is a rather pointless exercise to follow it further.

Any other ideas would be appreciated.

Trish
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LesleyB
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Post by LesleyB » Thu Feb 09, 2006 11:28 pm

Hi Trish
Without much to go on it sounds a bit like it could turn into a lengthy "wild goose chase", If it were me, I think I'd file it away somewhere, keeping it in mind, then if anything turned up which made me think there was a firm connection I'd research it further.

I had a similar experience with an old document, a marriage contract dating from 1771, in an archives - I found a reference to it, went to see it at the archives but at the time, although I had a strong hunch it was referring to one of my lot, I didn't expend any energy on transcribing it. Partly this was because it seemed a bit of a waste of time if they weren't my lot and also in a strange way I didn't want to get too involved in"their world" if they turned out not to be related. However, a document I found over a year later from 1792 confirmed without a shadow of a doubt that they were "mine" so I'm now slogging away on transcribing the document.

Best wishes
Lesley
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trish1
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Post by trish1 » Fri Feb 10, 2006 12:54 am

Hello Lesley

Many thanks for your reply - which is close to my own thoughts. It contains some interesting historical discussions related to items such as the life of Mary Q of Scots and the 1749 war, so perhaps I should file it for the historical content.

I have my Boyds back to 1800, so only another 151 to join up with 1749 - the end of the document :D

Trish
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Valerie
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Post by Valerie » Fri Apr 14, 2006 10:08 pm

I have additional information on Thomas Boyd, if interested. Valerie

John Boyd was christened 26 Apr 1752 Mid Calder, Midlothian, Scotland died 7
Jun 1823 Carstairs, Lanark, Scotland.

John married Janet Geddes (s) 16 Apr 1769 Whitburn, West Lothian, Scotland.

Janet was christened 13 Apr 1746 Whitburn, West Lothian, Scotland died 14
Nov 1813 Carstairs, Lanark, Scotland.

Children of John/Janet
Isaac born 7 Apr 1770 Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland
John Boyd born 19 May 1771 West Lothian, Scotland.
Christian born 11 Jun 1775 Carstairs, Lanark, Scotland
Janet born 29 Jun 1777 Carstairs, Lanark, Scotland
Martha Born 23 May 1779 Carstairs, Lanark, Scotland
Isaac born 27 May 1781 Carstairs, Lanark, Scotland
Thomas born 28 Apr 1783 Carstairs, Lanark, Scotland
died 12 Aug 1861 Carstairs, Lanark, Scotland married
Margaret Core 5 Mar 1811 Covington & Thankerton, Lanark, Scotland
Francis born 30 Jun 1785 Carstairs, Lanark, Scotland
Margaret Fullerton Boyd 23 Jun 1787 Carstairs, Lanark, Scotland
Francis born 11 Jul 1789 Carstairs, Lanark, Scotland died 25 Jun 1877
Carstairs, Lanark, Scotland married Janet Crawford
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