List members who have the name BOYDSTON/BOYDSTUN and come from Scotland may be interested in this. I have got a reply of a 4th Boydston farm which is situated in the Park where Pollok House and Pollokshaws House is and has the B762 road running through it. The road runs south to the Kennishead railway station. These Pollok Lands seemed to be part of the Maxwell land's who the Chief's family had a long relationship with. Mike Boyd Historical Committee, HBS ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Boyd" <mikejboyd@bigpond.com> To: <AYRSHIRE@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 4:23 PM Subject: [AYR] Boydstun Road between Barrhead and Glasgow > During my trip to the USA in April/May 2011, I became aware of the link > between name "Boyd" and the names of Boydstun and Boydston. Then at > Nashville, TN, I found several books on these families. Mr Q. B. Boydstun > of > Fort Gibson, Okalahoma, in his 1972 book, The Ancestors of John Hall > Boydstun and his Descendants, page 1, said:- > > "The history of the Boydstun family in America started with the name > Boylston. The names Boylston and Boydston were used by the same family in > the early records of Virginia. In South Carolina the name Boylston is > still > used. In North Carolina, Tennessee, and Kentucky, the names Boylston, > Boydstone, Boilston, Boydston, and Boydstun are used by the same family. > > "The tradition in all branches of the family are that our ancestry was > Scotch. In early days in Scotland a farm with a group of buildings were > spoken of as a "farm-town". The name of the owner had "ton" added for > town. > Thus, a farm owner by Boyd would be known as Boydston and the owner was > often known not by his own family name, but by the name of his farm. > > "At one time, the Boyles owned most of the land around Barrhead, Scotland > and although the land was been sold a number of times, the name of the > family still lingers as "Boyleston Farm". There is also a road called > "Boydston Road", which leaves a main road between Barrhead and Glasgow, > which is seven miles away and runs past a farm of considerable size which > was once called Boydston. The names Boylston and Boydston are not common > in > Scotland, but are known locally around Barrhead in 1943." > > Could I ask for the assistance of members of the Ayrshire list concerning > this last paragraph. > > Is the author saying that "Boydston Road" if off "a main road between > Barrhead and Glasgow", and > > that "Barrhead" is 7 miles from Glasgow or that the farm "Boydston" is 7 > miles from Barrhead? > > I have the Landranger Ordnance Map # 64, Glasgow but this does not tell me > if there is any Boydston Road in the southern suburbs of Glasgow. > > However, I do know that on the Paisley to Beith Road (A737), just 2 kms NE > of Beith - and just inside Renfrewshire - is a farm marked Boydstone. This > is east of the first round-a-bout going north of Beith. This is shown on > map > # 63 of the same series, Firth of Clyde. > > This area could have been part of the Barony of Gavin and Risk (which I > understand that the Boyds first held when they came to Scotland prior to > 1200 AD.) > > While on the same map series, but # 63, Firth of Clyde, some 3 1/2 kms > north > of the Ardrossan Harbour is a second farm called "Boydstone". This I think > is part of the land that Robert the Bruce gave to Sir Robert Boyd in > 1306 - > most likely at his coronation in March of 1306. > > While third farm called "Boydston" is shown on the Explorer map #333, > about > 1 km west of Carnell House and about 1/2 km west of the A719 Road that > goes > past Carnell House in Kyle, Ayrshire. > > At this time I do not think that the "Boydstun's" mentioned in Mr Q. B. > Boydstun's book come from any of these farms but more likely from members > of > Clan Boyd who move with the First Lord Robert Boyd to Alnwick in 1469. > > I would be grateful if anyone can point me towards this Boydstun Road > between Barrhead and Glasgow, so I can put that on my list of tasks to do > during my 2012 trip to Scotland. > > Thank you > > ? > > Mike Boyd > > Historical Committee > > House of Boyd Society > > > ------------------------------- > 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