My Boyds did not do much migrating after they came to the USA. However, I would surely like to find out more about where they did come from in Ireland (and probably earlier from Scotland), and if anyone has any ancestry over there that might look similiar with mine - that part of my ancestry is virtually a blank. This is the way the story goes. My grgrgrandfather was John BOYD who was married to ? CAMBELL - probably married in the very early 1800's in Ireland, but location is unknown. This John BOYD and CAMPBELL-wife had six children, three of whom, seemingly, never left Ireland. The other three children - Mary, William, and Jane - did come to St. Lawrence County, NY, probably in the 1830-40's. William BOYD was my grgrandfather who had been married to Susana DUNN in Ireland, and they had a son, David BOYD, b. about 1838. Susanna apparently died in Ireland. (I have been in touch with the descendants of David BOYD in northern NY, but they really do not know anything about any of this ancestry.) Sometime after that (1840's?) William BOYD came over from Ireland into the Town of Lisbon in St. Lawrence County, NY. The first that we really know anything of him is that he did purchase some property there in about 1854. By that time he had married Mary Jane THOMPSON and had one son, Wm. Henry BOYD, my grandpa, born in 1853. In Dec. 1855 another son was born, Robert John BOYD. In April 1856 Mary Jane THOMPSON-BOYD died. (Sometime shortly after that, William BOYD married Margaret CHAPMAN. Margaret was the sister of a grgrgrandmother in another branch of my family, the McLEANs. Young Robert J. BOYD died in 1872. William BOYD died in 1884. Cemetery stone shows 1817-1884 for him, however family members declare that he was born in 1807.) Wm. Henry BOYD married Jennie McCONNELL about 1880. Now back to the other BOYDs. We do not know when Mary BOYD and Jane BOYD came over, but it must have been earlier than when brother William did. "The World Book of Boyds" lists a Mary and Jane BOYD as having come over into St. John, NB, Canada, in 1834 - these could be mine. By 1840 Mary was married to a William HALL, and they had 6 or 7 children born over the next 20 years there in the Township of Lisbon, NY, according to Census. I have not found any contacts as descendants of William & Mary BOYD-HALL. (Mary lived 1810-1879.) Sister Jane BOYD showed up there in Ogdensburg/Tn.Oswegatchie Census in 1850 and later. She married an Andrew MEGAN/MEGHAN, and they had one boy. (Jane BOYD-MEGAN lived ca1815-1873, but I cannot find where she is buried. Most of these ancestors of mine are buried in the Campbell Cemetery in Lisbon Township.) If you see anything familiar to your ancestry in all of this, please let me know. Besides BOYD, I am also looking for connections with CAMPBELL, THOMPSON, McLEAN, McCONNELL, HALL, & MEGAN. Thank you. Evelyn Boyd-Hitchcock - born in Township of Lisbon, NY eahk@juno.com ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!