Yolanda and others This is an example of where you need to go (or get on) locational Net list. So Yolanda are you already on the Northumberland, England Rootsweb net list AND the Berwick rootsweb net list. If not you will need to do so and post what infromation you have on the your known family. You will be trying to find other unknown siblings, whom they married and where they are buried, etc so that hopefully you can find "lost" cousins or get people to do some look ups in these two areas for you Mike Boyd Historical Commitee, HBS ----- Original Message ----- From: "Yolanda Boyd" <ymlboyd@sbcglobal.net> To: <boyd@rootsweb.com>; <BOYD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 11:53 PM Subject: Re: [BOYD] When did the Boyd's go to the Scottish Border area? 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.