• General Notes

  Source: Aghadowey Church of Ireland Marriage register as per transcription at the BV site:
  BOYD Thomas 11/10/1850 31-b-f Collins William f ELLIOTT
  Mary 22-s Killeague Joseph f
  
  Also this from the Londonderry Sentinel:
  50-198 18-Oct-50
  On the 10th inst., in the Parish Church of Aughadoey, by the Rev. Robert Alexander, Mr. Thomas Boyd, Collins near Coleraine, to Mary, second daughter of Mr. Joseph Elliott,
  Lisnacloon, Castlederg, county Tyrone.  (How did she get moved to County Tyrone?!  Answer, she may have been staying with Thomas' folks at Killeague as he was from Collins according to his marriage record.)  I have now viewed the Civil Record of the marriage and it shows that Thomas was indeed living in Collins, he was a farmer, his father was William Boyd, a farmer and one of the witnesses was Kennedy Boyd.  This suggests Thomas was indeed a brother of Kennedy Boyd and both were the sons of William Boyd of The Collins.
  
  There are no Boyds in "Cuileans" in Pyke's 1725 Survey and none in "Cullans" in Alsop's 1765 Survey.
  
  The TAB for Aghadowey shows the following:
  Collins: John Wilson, Esq.,let to Thomas and William BOYD(20), Alexander BOYD (10).  This Thomas is too young to be the Thomas mentioned in the TAB.
  
  The only Boyd in Collins in the GV is Thomas Boyd - but according to the history below, he left for America in 1852.
  
  From "History of the Boyd Family and Descendants with Historical Sketches." by William Phillip Boyd, 1912.
  CHAPTER VIII
  THE BOYDS OF ARGHADOWEY, COUNTY DERRY, IRELAND
  The great grandfather of this family was John Boyd of
  ''
  The Callius," Derry County, Ireland, who had a son
  named
  William, and he a son Thomas, that came to America to
  whom
  our history back into the old country from the latter
  is very
  limited.
  Thomas was born at The Callius in the County of Derry
  in that romantic country in 1817. Here he was united
  in marriage
  October 10, 1850 to Miss Mary Elliott, who was born at
  
  Lisnabriar, Castlederry, County Tyrone, March 27,
  1826. On
  January 1, 1852 they bid farewell to their friends
  there and set
  out for America; landing at New York March loth of
  that year.
  Upon their arrival here, they found that the cholera
  had broken
  out in the city, and he volunteered as a nurse in the
  cholera hospital
  for a time. After remaining in New York until 1862, he
  enlisted in Company E., 5th New York Heavy Artillery
  and
  served through the war until his regiment was mustered
  out in
  May of 1865. He breathed his last here January 2,1870,
  and she
  died here also December 14, 1886. Their family
  consisted of
  four children namely:
  First, Charles Mathews Boyd, was born at Castlederry,
  Ireland, September 13, 1851. While his parents were on
  their
  journey over the ocean, he was taken sick and died and
  buried
  at sea in March of 1852.
  Second child of Thomas and Mary (Elliott) Boyd was
  named
  Annie Boyd. She was born in New York, February n,
  1853, [
  487]
  and died at the same place June 26, 1902. She married
  for her
  husband J. R. Allen at New York , who was born
  at County Cork, Ireland, September 15, 1843, an
  York March 17, 1912. Their children are Mrs. Louis
  Bumges (
  Mary Elliott), Annie E., Robert H., Mrs. Robert
  Meagher (
  Mabel D.), Margaret G., Lilly A. and Fanny Boyd, all
  living;
  William J., Martha Francis and Thomas deceased.
  Third, William J. Boyd, the second son of Thomas and
  Mary
  Elliott Boyd, was born in the third ward of New York
  City,
  September 12, 1854; married for his first wife Fanny
  Swanton,
  the eldest daughter of Robert and Mary Swanton at
  Caledonia, N. Y.,
  September 13, 1882, who died in New York City, October
  
  19, 1904, leaving no children. For his second wife he
  married
  Miss Mary Virginia Place, the youngest daughter of
  Robert M.
  and Jennie B. Place of Caledonia, N. Y., who was born
  at the
  latter place June 26, 1872. Their marriage took place
  here,
  November 16, 1905.
  William J. Boyd is now the only member of his father's
  
  family living. In 1859 he commenced going to school in
  the
  old St. Paul Chapel day school in Trinity Parish, New
  York
  City, and remained a member of the Parish until his
  removal to
  Caledonia, N. Y. in 1909, thus having spent fifty
  years in the
  Trinity Parish and included within that time twenty
  years verger
  in the old Trinity Church. In June of 1869 he entered
  the
  employ of McDowell & Dickinson, dealers in fancy
  groceries, and
  remained in their employ for nearly nineteen years.
  After leaving
  them he entered the employ of Reiss & Brady, October
  5, 1888,
  now known as the Cresca Company, Importers and Packers
  of
  fancy groceries and delicacies of New York City. Now
  he is a
  member of the firm of C.& E. Place & Boyd of
  Caledonia, N. Y.
  He is still in the employ of the Cresca Company,
  looking after
  their interest in Pittsburgh, Pa.; also a member of
  St. Andrews
  Episcopal Church of Caledonia, N. Y., where he is a
  licensed
  Lay Reader and frequently officiates there, assisting
  the Rector
  and holding service in his absence. He is a life
  member of the
  Masonic fraternity; a member of Brooklyn Lodge No.
  288,
  F. & A. M., and a member of the Brotherhood of St.
  Andrews. ,
  
  
  
  
  
  

Details of Thomas' family with Mary Elliott