General Notes

This is speculative based on this entry from the Belfast Newsletter:
23 May 1755  "Whereas I have been in.....d (1) that lands of the Vow near Ballymoney in the County of Antrim have been advertised to be sold.  As I did once before, so I do once again, .........(2) all persons not to buy said lands on the insufficient Title the Sellers are able to give, or else to stand to their hazard; for as soon as my eldest son will be of Age, which is about a Year hence, he will put in his Claim and recover said Lands.  Dated at Taughboyne May 15 1755.  William Boyd"

The Vow?  This implies there might be a connection between my two Boyd ancestries as the Boyds on my mother's side are buried in the Vow graveyard.  OR, I am descended from the Reverend William Boyd through my maternal Boyds rather than my paternal Boyds!!

The name William comes from the death of a William Boyd in Letterkenny as per the Index to Wills but this might not be the same person.