Does anyone know this James Boyd family? >From the book A Census of Ireland, Circa 1659, With Supplementary Material from the Poll Money Ordinances (1660-1661), Ed. Seamus Pender, 1939. COUNTY OF DOWNE BARONY OF LOWER EVAGH Parishes Places No. of people Tituladoes Names Eng & Scotts Irish Part of Sea Patrick Drumnovoddry 08 James Boide 06 02 Total Barony of Lower Evagh is in the NW corner of County Downe. With the 6 against the "Eng & Scotts" Column, this may suggest that James Boid had a family of 6 people. As I do not have the copy of the "Principal Irish Names [and] Their Numb." copied for this section, I can only assume that the name Boyd was not listed. (Ibid. p 92) I do not know this James Boyd’s origins. In another Family Chapter, I have a Joseph Boyd, who is said to have bene born in Dervock, County Antrim, but the family moved to the Banbridge area in hte 1700’s T1? Joseph Boyd, b / /173x ( , Ireland?), d / /18xx ( ), bu , m / /176x (church, town, county, etc), Elizabeth McClelland, dau of and (nee ) McCelland, b / /174x ( ), d / /18xx ( ), bu , and had issue:- [Lived: ] - (Source: (1) Michael Anderson & Larry Boyd, Anderson/Boyd Research., (2) Glin Bennet, Bristol England, Glin Bennet Files.) was born Bet. 1730 - 1745 in Dervock, Co. Antrim? /Poyntzpass, Co. Armagh? /Co. Monaghan?. He married ELIZABETH MCCLELLAND (Source: (1) Michael Anderson & Larry Boyd, Anderson/Boyd Research., (2) Glin Bennet, Bristol England, Glin Bennet Files.), daughter of FATHER OF ELIZABETH MCCLELLAND. She was born Bet. 1735 - 1750 in County Derry. "Notes for JOSEPH BOYD: According to the family genealogy provided by Glin Bennet, the BOYDS were of Scottish descent who settled in the town of Dervock more than two hundred years ago. Dervock is near the Giant's Causeway on the north coast of County Antrim. Some of the Boyds remained until the year 1875 when (according to the Bennet genealogy) the remaining Boyds left for Killarney, Warwick Lakes, Queensland, Australia. "It is not clear whether Joseph Boyd was born or ever lived in Dervock and if so whether he stayed. However, we know that Joseph married Elizabeth MCCLELLAND and according to the Bennet family history, Elizabeth came from County Derry, where Dervock is located*. So, Joseph could have lived in Dervock. However, we also know that Elizabeth's brother, Dr. McClelland, married a sister of Lord Blanney of Castle Blanney, County Monaghan. So, it is possible that Joseph and Elizabeth lived, at least for a time, somewhere in County Monaghan. We also know that William, one of Joseph's sons, wound up in Poyntzpass and that William inherited the McClelland wealth. We do not know if the brothers, Samuel, Edward, and Joseph, and the sisters, Rebecca, Nancy, and Elizabeth, lived in Dervock, left Dervock, lived in County Monaghan, or whether they ever settled in the Poyntpass area." * Dervock is actually located in County Antrim. In a Email to the Haplo Group A Boyd's on 3 October 2009 (see Email # 6 in CB09143R.doc) said:- "Regarding the Dervock Boyds, the best estimate of the arrival of the Boyds in Dervock from Scotland may be from a memoir of Elizabeth Boyd (from Glin Bennet of Bristol, England). Although there may be other interpretations of what she says, it looks like the Boyds arrived in Dervock 150 years before 1821, which would be 1671. See below. >From the Memoirs of Elizabeth Boyd, July 7, 1841 “An account of my family as far as I remember to have heard my Father tell me when a child 20 years ago. I am now 31 years of age, 7 July 1841. The Family some hundred and fifty years ago migrated from Scotland the time of the persecution and settled in County Antrim near Diarvock in the Upper Stroan. This was 3 Brothers William, Samuel and Joseph. I do not remember much about the 2 former of them. I think they died without issue. Joseph my Grandfather was 2 married, by his first wife he had one daughter when I saw her she was an old woman of 70 years of age and spoke of my grandmother in the highest terms she made no difference in her and her own children. I heard my Father say he did not know until they were grown up but she was his full sister she was a Mrs. Kinardy reared a large family who all migrated to America except I son Samuel who married and settled in the Stroan he not a particular nice man. Joseph Boyd married Elizabeth MClelland of County Derry by whom he had issue: Samuel Boyd, Edward Boyd, William Boyd, Joseph Boyd, Rebecca Boyd, Nancy Boyd, Elizabeth Boyd.” Regarding trades in Ireland at the time, William Boyd b. 1768 set up a tanning business in Poyntzpass that became very successful. He is buried in Poyntzpass. However, after exhaustive research, Michael Anderson and I could not find a connection to my Boyds. Now there were a slew of Boyds in that area. At one point, I thought I had found a connection between a large Boyd family from that area (I called them the Whiteside Boyds) and a living Boyd who lives in PA (if he is still alive). But, it turned out that this Boyd and I did NOT match on the Y-DNA test. I have a family tree for that large family from the Poyntzpass area that settled (relatively late) in western PA, if you would like it. If these Boyds were directly related to the Dervock Boyds, then the Dervock Boyds would not be directly related to the Haplo Group A Boyds (unless there was a non-paternal event involved)." So could this Joseph Boyd have followed other Boyd relatives down from Dervock to become involved in the Linen trade. In Dervock there were two separate Boyd families from before 1637 that had land there. One on hte east side and one on hte west sideof Dervock Thank you Mike Boyd