• General Notes

  From Linda Gilmore (05/01/08):
  Kennedy Boyd (1806-1888) was the son of William Boyd and Nancy Gage and grandson of John Boyd and Margaret Boyd.
  
  The history of the Thomas Boyd who emigrated to America in 1852 states that he was from the Collins, his father, William was from The Collins and his grandfather, this man, John Boyd, was from the Collins.
  
  However, there was NO John Boyd in The Collins in the 1831 Census:
  The 1831 Census shows three Boyds living in Collins: Alexander, Thomas and William, living in Houses 22, 23 and 24 respectively.  Alexander lived in a household of 3 males and 2 females, all Presbyterian.
  
  Now was there a John Boyd in Collins in the TAB:
  The 1833 TAB for Aghadowey shows the following:
  Collins: John Wilson, Esq.,let to Thomas and William BOYD(20), Alexander BOYD (10).
  
  Since there are NO Boyds in Killeague in the 1831 Census, and none in the 18th century records, it now seems likely that The Collins was the main home for this family, that Kennedy Boyd inherited the land in Killeague either from his maternal grandmother, who may have been a Kennedy and there were Kennedys in Killeague in both Pyke's and Alsops 18th century sources, or else he inherited it from his wife, whose name I still do not know. Kennedy's son, John, probably inherited the land in Cullycapple from the Thomas Boyd who held it in the Tithe Applotment Books.
  
  From the LDS Pedigree database:
  John Boyd Birth: About 1757     Of Callius, , Londonderry, Ireland Source Information: Film Number: 1239524.
  
  In a phone conversation with LG on 19/02/2008, she said that from notes given to her on the Boyds of Aghadowey, all the Aghadowey Boyds are descended from a Lismoyle Boyd who married another Lismoyle Boyd, but she could not recall off-hand who.  Could it be this man?
  
  Mike Boyd says LG sent him this information in May 2007:
  "Most of the Boyds of Aghadowey descend from John Boyd of Lismoyle who came to the Collins c1750. He married his cousin Margaret Boyd and had the following family:
  1. John Boyd m. Malsey Gage & had: Andrew, John, Jane, Thomas, Nancy, Mary, Elizabeth, Jane, Thomas.
  2. Hugh Boyd m. Catherine McNeill & had: John, Nancy, Mary, Margaret, Catherine, James, Betty, Joseph, Hugh, Martha.
  3. William Boyd (c1776-1848) m. Nancy Gage & had: John, Kennedy, Andrew, Margaret, Nancy, Thomas*.
  4. Thomas Boyd (c1787-1859) m. Jane & had: Thomas, 2 daughters, John.
  5. Joseph Boyd- 3 children.
  6. Alexander Boyd m.1 Susan Gilmore, m.2 ___. Child: John.
  7. Mary Boyd m. William Spence & had: John, Joseph, William, Thomas.
  8. Elizabeth Boyd m. ___ Starritt- family.
  Thomas* Boyd (1817-1870 m. Mary Elliott (1826-1886) & had family: Charles Matthews, Annie, William J., Joseph Elliott. Left for America 1 Jan.1852 and arrived New York 10 Mar. 1852 according to family notes.
  
  I think we may have found the connection between Lismoyle and Aghadowey.  The following may be the reason that the Boyds came to Collins.  This is from the Mullins book:
  COLLINS:  Wilson's second bleach green was at Collins.
  It was started apparently by James Barklie. In 1796, James Barklie of Coleraine, linen draper, got a lease of 54 acres of land in Collins formerly possessed by Arthur McAlester, Wm. Beresford, Jos. Irwin and John McQuillan, with 14 acres of turf bog in Culdrum. The yearly rent was f60. By the time of the O.S. John Wilson was running Collins green. There was one long slated two story building with a water wheel for the washmill and another for the beetling mill. Nolan's survey of 1842 said that there was a fine bleach green on Wilson's farm in Collins, but it was now out of use. The engine houses were good, though the machinery was nearly worn out."
  We know that the Boyds were associated with James Barklie because they called several of their chidren Barklie, and we know from the TAB that by 18??, William, Thomas and Alexander were in receipt of their land from John Wilson, who took over James Barklie's bleach green in Collins.  This all suggests that the Boyds came from Lismoyle, where they were in all probablilty already experienced bleach green workers, to work on Barklie's new green, which was then taken over by John Wilson.
  
  
  

Details of John's family with Margaret Boyd