This is the known family according to The Scots Peerage, Vol. V III. ALEXANDER, but for the attainder of 1469 de jure third Lord Boyd, though no evidence can be produced that he ever bore the title of Lord Boyd or was recognized. He was an uncle and heir-male of the preceding, being the second son of the first Lord Boyd. Appointed Chamberlain of Kilmarnock before 2 August 1488, *5 and had a lease of Drumcoll the same year. *6 He had charters of the lands of Ralstoun and others, in the barony of Kilmarnock, 30 November 1492. *7 His accounts as Chamberlain end 15 April 1504, when the Lordship of Kilmarnock was granted to the Queen Margaret (Tudor), the consort of James IV., to whose sasine 19 April 1504 he was a witness. *8 Crawfurd *9 says that he was appointed Chamberlain in 1505, and he has been followed by later writers, but if this date is correct it can only have been a reappointment by the Queen, from whom, on 26 June 1508, he had a tack of the Lordship of Kilmarnock. *10 The date of his death 1. Boyd Papers, iii. 139, 141, 142. 2. Reg. Mag. Sig., i 330, No. 1573. 3. M'Kay's Hist. of Kilmarnock, 32. 4. Mss. Advocates' Library. 5. Exch. Rolls, x. 91 6. Ibid., 637 7. Reg. Mag. Sig. 8. Cal. Doc. Scot., iv. 1737 9. Lives of Officers of State, 317 10. Boyd Papers, iii. 152. 151 has not been ascertained. He is stated to have been a great favourite with King James IV. He married Janet, sister *1 of Sir William and daughter of Sir Robert Colville of Ochiltree. They were related within the third and third and fourth and fourth degrees of consanguinity, and had a dispensation for the marriage already contracted between them and legitimising the children already born, 23 November 1505. *2 They had issue:- 1. ROBERT, his heir, of whom presently. 2. Thomas, ancestor of the Boyds of Pitcon. He had a charter of the lands of Linn, a property in the parish of Dalry, Ayrshire, wherein he is designed 'brother-german to Robert Boyd in Kilmarnock, in May 1532.' *3 He died in 1547. By his will, dated 8 November 1547, and confirmed at Glasgow 11 April 1548, he directs his body to be interred in the family burial ground at Kilmarnock, and appoints John Fernlye (Fairlie) of that ilk, Thomas Boyd, his son, and Robert Lord Boyd, executors. *4 He married *5 Marion, daughter of John Fairlie of that ilk, who survived him, and married, as second wife, Sir James Stewart of Bute, by whom she was ancestress of the Marquesses of Bute. She was living 11 October 1580. *6 By her Thomas Boyd had two sons, Thomas and Robert, who both fought for Queen Mary at Langside, for which they obtained remissions 8 September 1571. *7 Thomas the elder was of Pitcon in the valley of Dalry, a property which was held by his male descendants until 1770, when Robert Boyd, eighth of Pitcon, sold it to George MacCrae, merchant in Ayr. He had issue, but the male line, so far as is known, is extinct. *8 3. Adam, ancestor of the Boyds of Penkill and Trochrig. He appears as witness with his father and eldest brother 21 November 1546, *9 and died after 21 November 1577. *10 He married apparently before December 1531, *11 1. See her letter applying for a dispensation of her marriage; Boyd Papers, 150. 2. Ibid., 151. 3. Confirmed 11 May, Reg. Mag. Sig. 4. Glas. Com. Rec. 5. Crawfurd's Peerage, 55, citing a charter by Thomas Boyd of Pitcon. 6. See vol. ii. 292. 7. Reg. Mag. Sig. 8. Paterson's History of Ayr, 1847, i. 292. 9. P. C. Reg., i. 151. 10. Robertson's Ayrshire Families, 214. 11. Acta Dom. Conc. et Sess., vi. 79. 152 Helen, widow (with issue) *1 of Robert Graham of Knockdolian, youngest daughter of John Kennedy, second Lord Kennedy (who was still living 22 October 1564, and had issue:- 1. Robert, second of Penkill, whose male issue failed in 1750 on the death of Alexander Boyd, ninth of Penkill. *2 2. Mr. James, of Trochrig, Archbishop of Glasgow, died 21 June 1581. *3 His son Robert, second of Trochrig, the celebrated divine, was great-great grandfather of Robert (not John) Boyd of Trochrig, who on the extinction of the Penkill line in 1750, succeeded to that estate, being served heir-male to his remote cousin Thomas Boyd of Penkill 28 February 1752. *4 He died s.p.m., November 1761, *5 when Trochrig devolved on his daughters Ann and Grace, the former of whom married William Boyd Robertson, and had an only child, a daughter, who sold Trochrig, and Penkill passed to his nephew and heir-male Spencer Boyd, and his descendants were owners in 1847.*6 3._______ a daughter, married to James Chalmers of Sauchrie. *7 4. 5. 6. Three other sons. *8 7. Margaret, *9 wife of George Colquhoun, third of Glens, by whom she had an only daughter and heiress, Margaret, who married her cousin-german, Robert, fifth Lord Boyd. 8. Euphemia, wife of John Logie of Logiealmond in Perthshire, by whom she had issue, a daughter and heiress Margaret, who married the Hon. Thomas Hay, and was mother of the seventh Earl of Erroll. In the birth-brieve under the Great Seal granted to the Lady Isabel Hay, daughter of the ninth Earl of Erroll, by his wife, Lady Elizabeth Douglas, daughter of the Earl of Morton, she is called daughter of Robert (sic), Lord Boyd of Kilmarnock, by his wife, Isabella, daughter of Sir James Colville of Ochiltree. *10 IV. ROBERT, fourth Lord Boyd of Kilmarnock, eldest son and heir of the preceding. According to Crawfurd *12 he was restored to the title of Lord Boyd 1536, and had a grant from King James V., whom he faithfully served 1. See vol. ii 460 2. Paterson's Ayr and Wigton, ii 236. 3. Scott's Fasti, ii. 120, 377. 4. Retours. 5. Ibid. 6. Paterson's Hist. of Ayr, i. 394. 7. Wodrow's MS. Life of Trochrig. 8. Exanimi plane virilis faemina Colvillorum phylarchi filia sex filios suscepit, viros acerrimos et manus juxta consilioque promptissimos; R. Boyd MS. in Bibl. Jurid. 9. Fraser's Chief of Colquhoun, ii. 260; Scottish Antiquary, iv. 78. 10. Reg. Mag. Sig., 30 July 1635. 11. See note 2, p.55. 12. Peerage. Then in the book Family Annals, J. E. Russell, Volume III, 1997, p 649, it says:- “With the murder of the Earl of Arran’s only son, it fell to Lord Boyd’s second son Alexander to carry on the line. He received the Barony of Kilmarnock by a charter of 1492, and as a result of his niece Margaret’s influence with the King, James IV, Alexander was installed as Bailie and Chamberlain for the Kilmarnock Crown Lands in 1505. He was back in charge of the Boyd family lands, even if only as agent for the Crown. This was the beginning of a revival which was to last for over two hundred years. Alexander Boyd was married to Janet, the daughter of Sir Robert Colville of Ochiltree, by whom he had twelve children: of these, only three have left their names in history.” So it would be very good to find the names of these extra three sons or the other unknown four children according to Mr J. E, Russell. Thank you Mike Boyd Historical Committee, HBS