HI, John Boyd came from ireland about 1848 and I don't know if he came through Canada or Boston or Ellis Island but the 1850 census shows him in Enosburg with a family name raudel (believe it is Randell).  There may be a connection to the family as he obviously stayed with them for a while after coming and then opened a taning mill on a river in Franklin to tan leathers.  that's from Franklin records of mills and his statement he was a shoemaker. It's possible he had a brother named James as they are about the same age, John (My greagreatgreat grandfather) and James.  I do know that my John was a Presbyterian as were my grandparents and Protestant. Harriet Cady   William Boyd was born in Belmont County, Ohio in 1895. Belmont County is right on the border w/West Virginia. James Boyd was born in County Tyrone in Northern Ireland in 1834 and moved to Belmont County when he was 10 when his family fled Ireland during the potato famine. He would eventually go on to be a mayor of Omaha and a governor of Nebraska. The possibility is very strong that he was related to William Boyd and that William Boyd is descended from James Boyd’s father (Irish families were typically very large, Protestant or Catholic).  James Boyd’s family would have most likely been Protestant and Presbyterian. They would also most likely have been descended from the Scottish Protestants that began colonizing Northern Ireland in the late 1500s.   Roger Boyd Exel 1555 Oakley  Industrial Blvd. Fairburn, GA 30213 off 770-892-3938 x 222 cell 770-367-8195   From:Roger Boyd (Exel US) Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 11:11 AM To: Roger Boyd (Exel US); [email protected]; Harriet E. Cady Subject: RE: [BOYD] William Boyd, Hopalong Cassidy   STARmeter SEE RANK Down 171 this week View rank on IMDbPro » William Boyd(I) (1895–1972) Actor |Producer |Director The son of a day laborer, William Boyd moved with his family to Tulsa, Oklahoma, when he was seven. His parents died while he was in his early teens, forcing him to quit school and take such jobs as a grocery clerk, surveyor and oil field worker. He went to Hollywood in 1919, already gray-haired. His first role was as an extra in Cecil B. DeMille's... See full bio » Born: June 5, 1895 in Hendrysburg, Ohio, USA Died: September 12, 1972 (age 77) in Laguna Beach, California, USA