Hello all With a little searching you can find the myriad of reasons why Irish and Scottish Boyds immigrated to America on the Clan Boyd web site. http://www.clanboyd.info/outsideusa/scotland http://www.clanboyd.info/outsideusa/ireland Surf the site -- you will be amazed at the history you will find. Rich Boyd Debra Reynolds wrote: > Anna - Some of the Boyds left Scotland because of the English crown. > When the English crown tried to force the Scots to follow their leader > and not our own there was a small problem. Mary, Queen of Scots, was > beheaded and so a war ensued. I do believe that most of the Boyd > lines came from the area of Ayr in Scotland and had lost our title > when our ancestor followed Bonnie Prince Charlie instead of the > English King. You can read up on it in most history books. > > By the way that person was obviously not a true Boyd. I am a U.S. > Navy vet and there isn't much of anything that can make me blush. > > Debbie (Boyd) Reynolds > >> From: agfoster@headscheme.com >> Reply-To: CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com >> To: CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com >> Subject: Re: [Boyd] inappropriate message >> Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 10:50:56 -0400 >> >> He can't possibly be a part of the REAL Boyd clan--too unoriginal. >> Just a cheap wannabe? >> Anna Grace Boyd Foster >> >> >> ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== >> RING OF BOYDS http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite >> >> http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd-trees >> > > > > ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== > RING OF BOYDS http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite > > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd-trees > > >