• 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, so you shouldn't assume that you are descended from the Kennedys.
  
  The 1831 Census shows three Boyds living in Collins: Alexander, Thomas and William, living in Houses 22, 23 and 24 respectively.  William lived in a household of 5 males and 3 females.
  
  The 1833 TAB for Aghadowey shows the following:
  Collins: John Wilson, Esq.,let to Thomas and William BOYD(20), Alexander BOYD (10).
  
  There is no William Boyd in Collins the GV, only a Thomas, so he must have passed his house on by the 1850s.
  
  Source: Aghadowey Parish church gravestone -
  56 Boyd
  Erected in memory of
  John Boyd Junr, late of Collins, who departed this life, 22 June 1833, aged 27 years
  also his father, William Boyd, who died 30 March 1848, aged 72 years.  Is this William the one mentioned on the gravestone, from Collins?
  
  Death notice in the Londonderry Sentinel.
  
  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 this man's son, 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.
  
  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.
  
  From LG via Mike Boyd:
  3. William Boyd (c1776-1848) m. Nancy Gage & had: John, Kennedy, Andrew, Margaret, Nancy, Thomas.
  
  There really is no evidence for linking my Mary Boyd with Kennedy Boyd, other than the fact that my parents had the obituary of Kennedy Boyd's great grandson, Ringland Boyd, pasted into their scrapbook.
  
  

Details of William's family with Nancy Gage