Dear Cousins: This is available for free download from Google Books. http://books.google.com/ebooks?id=-lZmAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22james%20balfour%22&as_brr=5&source=webstore_bookcard I am certain Mike can offer comments about corrections to misguided information in the book. Yours Aye, Lauren

Thank you Lauren I have not had time to look at this website but I do know that there are a number of errors in it. However, it does give you an reasonable outline of Clan Boyd History in about 30 or 40 pages. Although, it is in some cases short of dates and locations. I have 10 or 12 publications which I have found in the last few years that I need to include into Chapter 3, so it can be put on the Society Web site - but I need to get 3 or 4 weeks of clear time to do it. The main one that was caused some "heated" discussion and been the subject of several books is Robert Boyd the son of the first Earl of Kilmarnock. "Scots Peerage", Vol 5, p 174 says this about Robert:- 4. ROBERT. He is claimed as an ancestor by several families, but nothing appears to be known about him. According to one account he was born at Kilmarnock August 1689, baptised there 24 October following, and died November 1762, having married there, 25 October 1714, Margaret Thomson, by whom he had eleven children, one of whom, the fourth son, William, is said to have gone to Buchan with James, Lord Boyd, after he succeeded (1758) to the Earldom of Erroll, and to have settled as a manufacturer in Turriff, Aberdeenshire. This latter statement is borne out by the registers, as his fourth child Erroll, is baptised at Kilmarnock 15 September 1761, and the fifth, Janet, at Turriff 3 June 1763. The Kilmarnock registers, however, contain no entry of the birth or baptism of a Robert Boyd in 1689, and the Robert who was married in 1714 is described as a "glover in Kilmarnock", and no reference is made to his being an Honourable or son of the Earl. However, when I was talking to the Lord Lyons Clerk last year, she said that the Herald doing this work in 1904 was not up to the mark. She also agreed that the Captain Robert Boyd of the Scots Dutch Brigade, who died in about 1710 was the Earl's son and could not be the same Robert Boyd who married in 1714 Margaret Thomson and went onto have 11 children. In 2007, I was shown an hand written book by the first Bt of Howth, Walter Boyd, written in the 1850's when he was at Trinity College Dublin with this same quotation. However, I have not yet been able to find what the original source of this information might have been before the 1850's. At this stage I am still trying to find out what happened to ALL the First Earl's younger sons - born in the 1660's and 1670's and if they MIGHT HAVE HAD any descendants. Enjoy reading this material. Mike Boyd Historical Committee, HBS ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lauren Boyd McLachlan" <confido@gmail.com> To: "Boyd List" <Boyd@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2011 2:07 AM Subject: [BOYD] The Scots Peerage, by James Balfour Paul, 1904 > Dear Cousins: > > This is available for free download from Google Books. > > > http://books.google.com/ebooks?id=-lZmAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22james%20balfour%22&as_brr=5&source=webstore_bookcard > > I am certain Mike can offer comments about corrections to misguided > information in the book. > > Yours Aye, > > Lauren > > ______________________________________ > 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). 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