For those of you how have been to one of my talks, I have said that Boyds seemed to have settled in about 8 other areas outside of Ayrshire in Scotland. One of these is in the Melrose - Kelso area of the border with England. The PROBLEM is that I do not know when Boyd families move to this area of Scotland. So do any members of this list know of any dates for their earliest "Boyd" families in this area. I do know that:- A) Robert the Bruce, in 1306, gave several estates in Galloway - Dumfriesshire to Wigtonshire - but we do not know what Boyd families lived on these estates. B) We know that first Lord Robert Boyd's brother was in possession of Drumcol, (now Duncow) Dumfriesshire which is about 7 kms north of Dumfries. This estate was forfeited in 1469 when Lord Boyd was overthrown and Sir Alexander was executed. C) According to Scots Peerage, Sir Alexander Boyd had a son Alexander who was "living 1500 but died before August 1502" and "had a lease by Royal Letters of 8 January 1490-91, with consent of John Kennedy of Blairquhan, of half of Egirness, Culdery, and Andecut." I am not sure where these three estates might have been in Scotland. At this time we do not know what happened to the son Alexander Boyd nor do we know his age in 1469 when his father was executed. D) So he may have gone to live with his mother's Kennedy family or he may have been taken in by his grandmother's family of Maxwell's of Calderwood. I am not sure if these came from the Glasgow area or from around Dumfries. While his Aunty was the Countess of Angus, the wife of Archibald Douglas, so he may have gone to live with or work for one of the Douglas Cadets in Southern Scotland. Or he may have some other link to some of the other families from the "Border" area of Scotland. While doing another project, I found these two IGI entries for Berwick-upon-Tweed in England but very close at the mouth of the Tweed River to this Scottish Border region. Anne BOIDE (F)............ C: 12 Oct 1620 B: 5 Feb 1963 LOGAN Ba: P000221 Father: Thomas BOIDE Berwick Upon Tweed, Northumberland, E: 13 Jun 1963 SLAKE So: 094987 England SP: 23 Mar 1970 SLAKE Pr: 0453486 Anna BOIDE (F)............ C: 12 Oct 1620 B: 6 Aug 1938 LOGAN F#: 177931 @ Father: Thomas BOIDE of Berwick on Tweed, Northumberland, E: Pre-1970 P#: 797 England SP: Pre-1970 O#: 30934 I could not find any other children born to this "Thomas Boide" but it does indicate that Boyds were in the "Borders" by 1620 if not earlier. I am not sure if looking at the IGI Batch numbers above will help to take this family back further and to where. The other question is there any link to the Boyd families at Greenlaw, Gordon, Ednam, Duns, Earlston and Smailholm where a number of Boyd families are listed to have come from. Thank you Mike Boyd Historical Committee House of Boyd Society

Hi Mike,   My husband, Clint's, Boyd line was concentrated in the Borders of England/Scotland until they moved to South Africa in the 1890's.  In our research, we have not been able to connect to all the other families in the borders, but can't say that they aren't related in the 1700's or earlier.  His oldest known Boyd is Ralph Boyd (Boid), b. abt 1733/38 and lived in the Doddington/Chatton/Wooler area of Northumberland, England.  He married Ann Brown in Chatton in 1758 and moved the family to Norham, Northumberland, along the border of Scotland where they were tenant farmers.  They baptized their children at Spittal United Presbyterian in Berwick-Upon-Tweed, England.  Their son, Aaron Boyd, b. 1769, married Margaret Steele and baptized their first child at Haggerston Roman Catholic before they moved to Westruther, Berwick, Scotland where they were tenant farmers at Whitburn Farm.  They moved there along with Aaron's sister, Margaret, who married Alexander Bird, tenant farmer at Thornidyke, Westruther.  The siblings lived within 1 mile of each other.  There was another Boyd family who were tenant farmers of the same landlord who lived 1 mile away from them, John Boyd of Broomybank (and Elizabeth Tait) who would have been about the same age as Aaron Boyd.  We don't know if this is just a coincidence or if they were cousins.  Aaron Boyd's son, Thomas Boyd b. 1799, married Barbara Turnbull and lived in Greenlaw, Berwick, Scotland.  He was a coachdriver and died of smallpox in 1837.  His son Robert Boyd, b. 1836 in Greenlaw, married Christina Hood and lived in a variety of areas of Berwickshire, including Duns, Lauder, Eccles and Langton.  This family moved to Liverpool, England between the 1880 and 1890 census.  My husbands gggrandfather, Thomas Boyd, b. 1960 did not follow his parents to Liverpool.  He was in the Argyllshire Highlanders and moved with his wife, Annie Ross to South Africa where the family remained for generations.   Clint is part of the U-198 DNA group and I would be interested to see if anyone else who is researching this area has had a DNA test and can help us determine if the families in this area are indeed related at some point.   Mike, I have 3 books with the Monumental Inscriptions (pre-1855) of Berwickshire, Scotland.  If you do not have copies to these, I would be happy to type out the Boyd entries and send them to you.  While some of the gravestones are in terrible shape or missing, this source was invaluable to us in determining where our ancestors were and who they were related to.  However, we know that it has some incorrect information.  We had been led down a wrong path by a wrong transcription.  Only by visiting the gravesite ourselves were we able to find that the gravestone said "son-in-law", not "son" and we were able to get back on the correct path.    Clint has been making a matrix and trying to group all the Boyds in both Berwickshire, Scotland and also Northumberland, England.  I will ask him to send you a copy of this when he has completed it.  He is the scientist, so his records are very precise with cross references and sources all organized in a methodical manner.  It will be a few months as we generally put aside our research in the summer to enjoy the season with our kids.  When we were in Scotland last summer, I spent a few days of research at the Borders Family History Society's library in Galashiels, the Heritage Hub in Hawick, Roxburghsire and the Berwick-Upon-Tweed Records Office where I took a notebook full of notes.  We are still working on organizing all this information.  But, I can tell you is that the records show the earliest Boyds in Northumberland at the early 1600's with a group of Boyd siblings being married in Newcastle Upon Tyne between 1600-1610.  The birth record of Anne Boyd that you mention relates to the marriage of her parents, Thomas Boide and Issabell Gyven who married in 1618 in Berwick-Upon-Tweed.  At the same period, around 1600, the Boyd's start to show in the Kelso, Roxburghsire records.  The Boyd's don't appear in Berwickshire records until 1658, with a John Boyd being baptized in Westruther, Berwick, Scotland (possibly the ancestor of the John Boyd of Broomybank mentioned above?).  Unfortunately, Westruther is a tiny parish, with very erratic records (years missing out of the official parish records) and they don't have any records of Boyd's in this area again until close to 1820.  There have only ever been a couple hundred people living in this parish and it doesn't seem to have the funds to upkeep the cemetary.  The old cemetary is in ruins along with the parish church which it surrounds.  Many of the gravestones were either completely unreadable or had falled down.    Yolanda Boyd   From: Mike Boyd <mikejboyd@bigpond.com> To: BOYD-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, July 7, 2011 4:43 AM Subject: [BOYD] When did the Boyd's go to the Scottish Border area? For those of you how have been to one of my talks, I have said that Boyds seemed to have settled in about 8 other areas outside of Ayrshire in Scotland. One of these is in the Melrose - Kelso area of the border with England. The PROBLEM is that I do not know when Boyd families move to this area of Scotland. So do any members of this list know of any dates for their earliest "Boyd" families in this area. I do know that:- A) Robert the Bruce, in 1306, gave several estates in Galloway - Dumfriesshire to Wigtonshire - but we do not know what Boyd families lived on these estates. B) We know that first Lord Robert Boyd's brother was in possession of Drumcol, (now Duncow) Dumfriesshire which is about 7 kms north of Dumfries. This estate was forfeited in 1469 when Lord Boyd was overthrown and Sir Alexander was executed. C) According to Scots Peerage, Sir Alexander Boyd had a son Alexander who was "living 1500 but died before August 1502" and "had a lease by Royal Letters of 8 January 1490-91, with consent of John Kennedy of Blairquhan, of half of Egirness, Culdery, and Andecut." I am not sure where these three estates might have been in Scotland. At this time we do not know what happened to the son Alexander Boyd nor do we know his age in 1469 when his father was executed. D) So he may have gone to live with his mother's Kennedy family or he may have been taken in by his grandmother's family of Maxwell's of Calderwood. I am not sure if these came from the Glasgow area or from around Dumfries. While his Aunty was the Countess of Angus, the wife of Archibald Douglas, so he may have gone to live with or work for one of the Douglas Cadets in Southern Scotland. Or he may have some other link to some of the other families from the "Border" area of Scotland. While doing another project, I found these two IGI entries for Berwick-upon-Tweed in England but very close at the mouth of the Tweed River to this Scottish Border region. Anne BOIDE (F)............ C: 12 Oct 1620 B: 5 Feb 1963 LOGAN Ba: P000221 Father: Thomas BOIDE Berwick Upon Tweed, Northumberland, E: 13 Jun 1963 SLAKE So: 094987 England SP: 23 Mar 1970 SLAKE Pr: 0453486 Anna BOIDE (F)............ C: 12 Oct 1620 B: 6 Aug 1938 LOGAN F#: 177931 @ Father: Thomas BOIDE of Berwick on Tweed, Northumberland, E: Pre-1970 P#: 797 England SP: Pre-1970 O#: 30934 I could not find any other children born to this "Thomas Boide" but it does indicate that Boyds were in the "Borders" by 1620 if not earlier. I am not sure if looking at the IGI Batch numbers above will help to take this family back further and to where. The other question is there any link to the Boyd families at Greenlaw, Gordon, Ednam, Duns, Earlston and Smailholm where a number of Boyd families are listed to have come from. Thank you Mike Boyd Historical Committee House of Boyd Society ______________________________________ House of Boyd Society's (HBS) Annual General Meeting (AGM) & Gathering of the Clan 2012 will be held in Woodland,CA, USA in conjunction with the Sacramento Caledonian Club's 136th annual Sacramento Valley Scottish Games & Festival in April 2012 (unofficial date April 28th and 29th -- to be confirmed by the venue). Write AGM@clanboyd.org if you would be interested in helping to plan it. ____________________________________________________ House of Boyd Society's (HBS) Annual General Meeting (AGM) & Gathering of the Clan 2011 was a great success in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA in conjunction with The Highland Games and Celtic Gathering April 16-17, 2011. _______________________________________ Support the Fellowship Activities of the Clan.  Join the House of Boyd Society! http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/BOYD/2008-06/1212428046 ______________________________________ House of Boyd Society sends HUGE thank you to all of our volunteers.  The Society would not be what it is without you! ______________________________________ Want to contribute an article or query to the Dean Road?  Contact Kevin McLachlan, Editor at Editor@clanboyd.org ==================== Visit the House of Boyd Society Website http://www.clanboyd.org ==================== For Officers and other Contacts, see http://www.clanboyd.org/officers.shtml ==================== Most replies should go to the list, not just the author of the post.  Make sure to include the list address Boyd@rootsweb.com ==================== Need to contact the Admin?  Write me off list at Boyd-admin@rootsweb.com ==================== Can't recall what the beginning of a thread was?  Subscribe mid-discussion? Visit the PUBLICLY VIEWABLE archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=boyd ==================== Got an issue that is beyond the purview of this list?  Write the Help Desk for assistance  http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/ Honor your fellow subscribers -- follow the Golden Rule! **************************** ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BOYD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Berwick Upon Tweed, Northumberland, E: 13 Jun 1963 SLAKE So: 094987 England SP: 23 Mar 1970 SLAKE Pr: 0453486 Anna BOIDE (F)............ C: 12 Oct 1620 B: 6 Aug 1938 LOGAN F#: 177931 @ Father: Thomas BOIDE of Berwick on Tweed, Northumberland, E: Pre-1970 P#: 797 England SP: Pre-1970 O#: 30934 I could not find any other children born to this "Thomas Boide" but it does indicate that Boyds were in the "Borders" by 1620 if not earlier. I am not sure if looking at the IGI Batch numbers above will help to take this family back further and to where. The other question is there any link to the Boyd families at Greenlaw, Gordon, Ednam, Duns, Earlston and Smailholm where a number of Boyd families are listed to have come from. Thank you Mike Boyd Historical Committee House of Boyd Society ______________________________________ House of Boyd Society's (HBS) Annual General Meeting (AGM) & Gathering of the Clan 2012 will be held in Woodland,CA, USA in conjunction with the Sacramento Caledonian Club's 136th annual Sacramento Valley Scottish Games & Festival in April 2012 (unofficial date April 28th and 29th -- to be confirmed by the venue). Write AGM@clanboyd.org if you would be interested in helping to plan it. ____________________________________________________ House of Boyd Society's (HBS) Annual General Meeting (AGM) & Gathering of the Clan 2011 was a great success in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA in conjunction with The Highland Games and Celtic Gathering April 16-17, 2011. _______________________________________ Support the Fellowship Activities of the Clan.  Join the House of Boyd Society! http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/BOYD/2008-06/1212428046 ______________________________________ House of Boyd Society sends HUGE thank you to all of our volunteers.  The Society would not be what it is without you! ______________________________________ Want to contribute an article or query to the Dean Road?  Contact Kevin McLachlan, Editor at Editor@clanboyd.org ==================== Visit the House of Boyd Society Website http://www.clanboyd.org ==================== For Officers and other Contacts, see http://www.clanboyd.org/officers.shtml ==================== Most replies should go to the list, not just the author of the post.  Make sure to include the list address Boyd@rootsweb.com ==================== Need to contact the Admin?  Write me off list at Boyd-admin@rootsweb.com ==================== Can't recall what the beginning of a thread was?  Subscribe mid-discussion? Visit the PUBLICLY VIEWABLE archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=boyd ==================== Got an issue that is beyond the purview of this list?  Write the Help Desk for assistance  http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/ Honor your fellow subscribers -- follow the Golden Rule! **************************** ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BOYD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Berwick on Tweed, Northumberland, E: Pre-1970 P#: 797 England SP: Pre-1970 O#: 30934 I could not find any other children born to this "Thomas Boide" but it does indicate that Boyds were in the "Borders" by 1620 if not earlier. I am not sure if looking at the IGI Batch numbers above will help to take this family back further and to where. The other question is there any link to the Boyd families at Greenlaw, Gordon, Ednam, Duns, Earlston and Smailholm where a number of Boyd families are listed to have come from. Thank you Mike Boyd Historical Committee House of Boyd Society ______________________________________ House of Boyd Society's (HBS) Annual General Meeting (AGM) & Gathering of the Clan 2012 will be held in Woodland,CA, USA in conjunction with the Sacramento Caledonian Club's 136th annual Sacramento Valley Scottish Games & Festival in April 2012 (unofficial date April 28th and 29th -- to be confirmed by the venue). Write AGM@clanboyd.org if you would be interested in helping to plan it. ____________________________________________________ House of Boyd Society's (HBS) Annual General Meeting (AGM) & Gathering of the Clan 2011 was a great success in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA in conjunction with The Highland Games and Celtic Gathering April 16-17, 2011. _______________________________________ Support the Fellowship Activities of the Clan.  Join the House of Boyd Society! http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/BOYD/2008-06/1212428046 ______________________________________ House of Boyd Society sends HUGE thank you to all of our volunteers.  The Society would not be what it is without you! ______________________________________ Want to contribute an article or query to the Dean Road?  Contact Kevin McLachlan, Editor at Editor@clanboyd.org ==================== Visit the House of Boyd Society Website http://www.clanboyd.org ==================== For Officers and other Contacts, see http://www.clanboyd.org/officers.shtml ==================== Most replies should go to the list, not just the author of the post.  Make sure to include the list address Boyd@rootsweb.com ==================== Need to contact the Admin?  Write me off list at Boyd-admin@rootsweb.com ==================== Can't recall what the beginning of a thread was?  Subscribe mid-discussion? Visit the PUBLICLY VIEWABLE archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=boyd ==================== Got an issue that is beyond the purview of this list?  Write the Help Desk for assistance  http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/ Honor your fellow subscribers -- follow the Golden Rule! **************************** ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BOYD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Mike and List Kelso Boyds are very early in the records No records extant before 1598 1. JHONE BOYD - International Genealogical Index Gender: Male Christening: 04 NOV 1604 Kelso, Roxburgh, Scotland 2. JHONE BOYD - International Genealogical Index Gender: Male Christening: 26 APR 1603 Kelso, Roxburgh, Scotland 3. WILLIAM BOYD - International Genealogical Index Gender: Male Christening: 26 APR 1603 Kelso, Roxburgh, Scotland 4. BOYD - International Genealogical Index Gender: Male Christening: 10 AUG 1606 Kelso, Roxburgh, Scotland 6. CHRISTIANE BOYD - International Genealogical Index Gender: Female Christening: 30 MAY 1602 Kelso, Roxburgh, Scotland 2 and 3 are twins to Thomas Boyd and Christian Tait 1, 4 and 6 are to JHONE BOYD and MARION AULDCORN Melrose Boyds are later in records No records of baptisms before 1642. First Boyd is 1714 JAMES BOYD - International Genealogical Index Gender: Male Christening: 25 MAY 1714 Melrose, Roxburgh, Scotland Martin -----Original Message----- From: boyd-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:boyd-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Mike Boyd Sent: 07 July 2011 09:44 To: BOYD-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [BOYD] When did the Boyd's go to the Scottish Border area? For those of you how have been to one of my talks, I have said that Boyds seemed to have settled in about 8 other areas outside of Ayrshire in Scotland. One of these is in the Melrose - Kelso area of the border with England. The PROBLEM is that I do not know when Boyd families move to this area of Scotland. So do any members of this list know of any dates for their earliest "Boyd" families in this area. I do know that:- A) Robert the Bruce, in 1306, gave several estates in Galloway - Dumfriesshire to Wigtonshire - but we do not know what Boyd families lived on these estates. B) We know that first Lord Robert Boyd's brother was in possession of Drumcol, (now Duncow) Dumfriesshire which is about 7 kms north of Dumfries. This estate was forfeited in 1469 when Lord Boyd was overthrown and Sir Alexander was executed. C) According to Scots Peerage, Sir Alexander Boyd had a son Alexander who was "living 1500 but died before August 1502" and "had a lease by Royal Letters of 8 January 1490-91, with consent of John Kennedy of Blairquhan, of half of Egirness, Culdery, and Andecut." I am not sure where these three estates might have been in Scotland. At this time we do not know what happened to the son Alexander Boyd nor do we know his age in 1469 when his father was executed. D) So he may have gone to live with his mother's Kennedy family or he may have been taken in by his grandmother's family of Maxwell's of Calderwood. I am not sure if these came from the Glasgow area or from around Dumfries. While his Aunty was the Countess of Angus, the wife of Archibald Douglas, so he may have gone to live with or work for one of the Douglas Cadets in Southern Scotland. Or he may have some other link to some of the other families from the "Border" area of Scotland. While doing another project, I found these two IGI entries for Berwick-upon-Tweed in England but very close at the mouth of the Tweed River to this Scottish Border region. Anne BOIDE (F)............ C: 12 Oct 1620 B: 5 Feb 1963 LOGAN Ba: P000221 Father: Thomas BOIDE Berwick Upon Tweed, Northumberland, E: 13 Jun 1963 SLAKE So: 094987 England SP: 23 Mar 1970 SLAKE Pr: 0453486 Anna BOIDE (F)............ C: 12 Oct 1620 B: 6 Aug 1938 LOGAN F#: 177931 @ Father: Thomas BOIDE of Berwick on Tweed, Northumberland, E: Pre-1970 P#: 797 England SP: Pre-1970 O#: 30934 I could not find any other children born to this "Thomas Boide" but it does indicate that Boyds were in the "Borders" by 1620 if not earlier. I am not sure if looking at the IGI Batch numbers above will help to take this family back further and to where. The other question is there any link to the Boyd families at Greenlaw, Gordon, Ednam, Duns, Earlston and Smailholm where a number of Boyd families are listed to have come from. Thank you Mike Boyd Historical Committee House of Boyd Society ______________________________________ House of Boyd Society's (HBS) Annual General Meeting (AGM) & Gathering of the Clan 2012 will be held in Woodland,CA, USA in conjunction with the Sacramento Caledonian Club's 136th annual Sacramento Valley Scottish Games & Festival in April 2012 (unofficial date April 28th and 29th -- to be confirmed by the venue). Write AGM@clanboyd.org if you would be interested in helping to plan it. ____________________________________________________ House of Boyd Society's (HBS) Annual General Meeting (AGM) & Gathering of the Clan 2011 was a great success in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA in conjunction with The Highland Games and Celtic Gathering April 16-17, 2011. _______________________________________ Support the Fellowship Activities of the Clan. Join the House of Boyd Society! http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/BOYD/2008-06/1212428046 ______________________________________ House of Boyd Society sends HUGE thank you to all of our volunteers. The Society would not be what it is without you! ______________________________________ Want to contribute an article or query to the Dean Road? Contact Kevin McLachlan, Editor at Editor@clanboyd.org ==================== Visit the House of Boyd Society Website http://www.clanboyd.org ==================== For Officers and other Contacts, see http://www.clanboyd.org/officers.shtml ==================== Most replies should go to the list, not just the author of the post. Make sure to include the list address Boyd@rootsweb.com ==================== Need to contact the Admin? Write me off list at Boyd-admin@rootsweb.com ==================== Can't recall what the beginning of a thread was? Subscribe mid-discussion? Visit the PUBLICLY VIEWABLE archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=boyd ==================== Got an issue that is beyond the purview of this list? 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Hi Mike and List May be worth chasing up some of these: You searched on the surname BOYD. The following persons' interests may be of interest: Click on the email address to send an email to the person whose interest matches yours. Interested Person Email Address Interest Location Period marilyn clark mrcclark@tiscali.co.uk Borders 1750 to 1840 Jean Buziak jeannieb2@shaw.ca Borders 1800 to 2000 Stuart McKay mckayss@aol.com Duns/gavinton/langton/ayton 1800 to 1880 Yolanda Boyd ymlboyd@sbcglobal.net Greenlaw Langton Duns Lauder 1800 to 1880 jacqueline trahan jacquitrahan@hotmail.com Kelso,scotland 1900 to 1950 Jim McGuire Jim1.McGuire@Googlemail.Com Scotland 1500 to 2000 Joe Boyd Williams joewilliams6788@gmail.com Smailholm, Kelso, Sprouston 1780 to 1860 Martin -----Original Message----- From: boyd-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:boyd-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Mike Boyd Sent: 07 July 2011 09:44 To: BOYD-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [BOYD] When did the Boyd's go to the Scottish Border area? For those of you how have been to one of my talks, I have said that Boyds seemed to have settled in about 8 other areas outside of Ayrshire in Scotland. One of these is in the Melrose - Kelso area of the border with England. The PROBLEM is that I do not know when Boyd families move to this area of Scotland. So do any members of this list know of any dates for their earliest "Boyd" families in this area. I do know that:- A) Robert the Bruce, in 1306, gave several estates in Galloway - Dumfriesshire to Wigtonshire - but we do not know what Boyd families lived on these estates. B) We know that first Lord Robert Boyd's brother was in possession of Drumcol, (now Duncow) Dumfriesshire which is about 7 kms north of Dumfries. This estate was forfeited in 1469 when Lord Boyd was overthrown and Sir Alexander was executed. C) According to Scots Peerage, Sir Alexander Boyd had a son Alexander who was "living 1500 but died before August 1502" and "had a lease by Royal Letters of 8 January 1490-91, with consent of John Kennedy of Blairquhan, of half of Egirness, Culdery, and Andecut." I am not sure where these three estates might have been in Scotland. At this time we do not know what happened to the son Alexander Boyd nor do we know his age in 1469 when his father was executed. D) So he may have gone to live with his mother's Kennedy family or he may have been taken in by his grandmother's family of Maxwell's of Calderwood. I am not sure if these came from the Glasgow area or from around Dumfries. While his Aunty was the Countess of Angus, the wife of Archibald Douglas, so he may have gone to live with or work for one of the Douglas Cadets in Southern Scotland. Or he may have some other link to some of the other families from the "Border" area of Scotland. While doing another project, I found these two IGI entries for Berwick-upon-Tweed in England but very close at the mouth of the Tweed River to this Scottish Border region. Anne BOIDE (F)............ C: 12 Oct 1620 B: 5 Feb 1963 LOGAN Ba: P000221 Father: Thomas BOIDE Berwick Upon Tweed, Northumberland, E: 13 Jun 1963 SLAKE So: 094987 England SP: 23 Mar 1970 SLAKE Pr: 0453486 Anna BOIDE (F)............ C: 12 Oct 1620 B: 6 Aug 1938 LOGAN F#: 177931 @ Father: Thomas BOIDE of Berwick on Tweed, Northumberland, E: Pre-1970 P#: 797 England SP: Pre-1970 O#: 30934 I could not find any other children born to this "Thomas Boide" but it does indicate that Boyds were in the "Borders" by 1620 if not earlier. I am not sure if looking at the IGI Batch numbers above will help to take this family back further and to where. The other question is there any link to the Boyd families at Greenlaw, Gordon, Ednam, Duns, Earlston and Smailholm where a number of Boyd families are listed to have come from. Thank you Mike Boyd Historical Committee House of Boyd Society ______________________________________ House of Boyd Society's (HBS) Annual General Meeting (AGM) & Gathering of the Clan 2012 will be held in Woodland,CA, USA in conjunction with the Sacramento Caledonian Club's 136th annual Sacramento Valley Scottish Games & Festival in April 2012 (unofficial date April 28th and 29th -- to be confirmed by the venue). Write AGM@clanboyd.org if you would be interested in helping to plan it. ____________________________________________________ House of Boyd Society's (HBS) Annual General Meeting (AGM) & Gathering of the Clan 2011 was a great success in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA in conjunction with The Highland Games and Celtic Gathering April 16-17, 2011. _______________________________________ Support the Fellowship Activities of the Clan. Join the House of Boyd Society! http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/BOYD/2008-06/1212428046 ______________________________________ House of Boyd Society sends HUGE thank you to all of our volunteers. The Society would not be what it is without you! ______________________________________ Want to contribute an article or query to the Dean Road? Contact Kevin McLachlan, Editor at Editor@clanboyd.org ==================== Visit the House of Boyd Society Website http://www.clanboyd.org ==================== For Officers and other Contacts, see http://www.clanboyd.org/officers.shtml ==================== Most replies should go to the list, not just the author of the post. Make sure to include the list address Boyd@rootsweb.com ==================== Need to contact the Admin? Write me off list at Boyd-admin@rootsweb.com ==================== Can't recall what the beginning of a thread was? Subscribe mid-discussion? Visit the PUBLICLY VIEWABLE archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=boyd ==================== Got an issue that is beyond the purview of this list? Write the Help Desk for assistance http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/ Honor your fellow subscribers -- follow the Golden Rule! **************************** ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BOYD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1388 / Virus Database: 1516/3748 - Release Date: 07/06/11