Hi Mike, Spent my childhood in Geelong, pity it is so far away would love to visit. I would also like a summary of your places to visit and stay in Ayrshire. I’m mostly interested in West Kilbride. So I guess Ardrossan would be best ?? We have talked before on Boyds but I see you have Montgomery in your interests as well, where are they from ? I have Montgomery married into my Gemmell line. Some went to Australia. Irene in Hamilton New Zealand Today's Topics: 1. Geelong Highland Games Sunday 1 March at Deakin University Waurn Ponds campus (Mike Boyd) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is to advise those Boyd living in the Geelong and Melbourne areas, I will at the Boyd tent tomorrow, Sunday 1 March. I will be quite happy to talk to about your Boyd family and add it to the 750 Boyd family Chapters that I have already collected or to help you develop your own tree. If you can?t attend, I will be staying at the Comfort Inn Eastern Sands (1 Bellerine Street, Geelong) so I have put aside an hour at 7.30 pm on Sunday 1 March, if anyone wishes to talk to me about their family or visit Scotland. I have been going to Scotland since 2005 nearly every years, so I have built up a little traveling information and where to research, etc, which I am quite happy to pass onto others. For those that have Ayrshire families, the Boyd lived there prior to 1306 and have married into many of the Ayrshire families such as Montgomery, Blair, Kerr, Cunningham, Muir, Campbell, Crawford, Wallace, Kennedy and many other families, so I have some knowledge on these families as well. Mike Boyd Chairman Historical Committee House of Boyd Society Brisbane, Aust. ------------------------------ To contact the AYRSHIRE list administrator, send an email to AYRSHIRE-admin@rootsweb.com. To post a message to the AYRSHIRE mailing list, send an email to AYRSHIRE@rootsweb.com. __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AYRSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. End of AYRSHIRE Digest, Vol 10, Issue 41 ****************************************

Irene I can't recall any hotel in West Kilbride, but down the hill one or two kms is the Seamill Hotel. Although it might be a little expensive. I am sure that there are B&B's with WEst Kilbride. So you will need to check with either the North Ayrshire council or Scotland Tourist Office in Glasgow. How are you getting to West Kilbride? And where are you coming form and going to? In West Kilbride is Law Castle - now in private hands - where Princes Mary Stewart was said to have been "housed" when she returned to Scotland by her brother King James III - either after her husband, Thomas Boyd, Earl of Arran, died or forced to divorce him. While a few kms west of W K is Portincross Castle which has been partly restored. I think that is now opened to the Public but you willneed to check with the Council on times extra. There is a Montgomery Castle in Ardrossan. Plus the Montgomery County Part at the old Montgomery Castle in Kilwinning - along with the old Abbey at Kilwinning. The town of Saltcoats and Stevenson may also be worth visitng as well. While north you have Largs which is while while spending sometime, as it is the site of the 1263 Battle with the Vikings. I am not sure where the North Ayrshire Local Studies Library is now located after it moved out of Irvine, so ask the Council, as they may also have some information. Mike Boyd -----Original Message----- From: polk via Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2015 6:31 AM To: ayrshire@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [AYR] AYRSHIRE Digest, Vol 10, Issue 41 Hi Mike, Spent my childhood in Geelong, pity it is so far away would love to visit. I would also like a summary of your places to visit and stay in Ayrshire. I’m mostly interested in West Kilbride. So I guess Ardrossan would be best ?? We have talked before on Boyds but I see you have Montgomery in your interests as well, where are they from ? I have Montgomery married into my Gemmell line. Some went to Australia. Irene in Hamilton New Zealand Today's Topics: 1. Geelong Highland Games Sunday 1 March at Deakin University Waurn Ponds campus (Mike Boyd) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is to advise those Boyd living in the Geelong and Melbourne areas, I will at the Boyd tent tomorrow, Sunday 1 March. I will be quite happy to talk to about your Boyd family and add it to the 750 Boyd family Chapters that I have already collected or to help you develop your own tree. If you can?t attend, I will be staying at the Comfort Inn Eastern Sands (1 Bellerine Street, Geelong) so I have put aside an hour at 7.30 pm on Sunday 1 March, if anyone wishes to talk to me about their family or visit Scotland. I have been going to Scotland since 2005 nearly every years, so I have built up a little traveling information and where to research, etc, which I am quite happy to pass onto others. For those that have Ayrshire families, the Boyd lived there prior to 1306 and have married into many of the Ayrshire families such as Montgomery, Blair, Kerr, Cunningham, Muir, Campbell, Crawford, Wallace, Kennedy and many other families, so I have some knowledge on these families as well. Mike Boyd Chairman Historical Committee House of Boyd Society Brisbane, Aust. ------------------------------ To contact the AYRSHIRE list administrator, send an email to AYRSHIRE-admin@rootsweb.com. To post a message to the AYRSHIRE mailing list, send an email to AYRSHIRE@rootsweb.com. __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AYRSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. End of AYRSHIRE Digest, Vol 10, Issue 41 **************************************** ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AYRSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message