DoD from will extract at PRONI
Title : The Reverend Date of Death : 19 March 1859
Surname : Boyd Date of Grant : 13 April 1859
Forename : William Reseal Date :
Registry : Londonderry Effects : Effects under £16,000
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Full Abstract :
The Will of (The Reverend) William Boyd late of Kiltoe Lodge in the County of Donegal Clerk deceased who died 19 March 1859 at same place was proved at Londonderry by the oath of John Robert Boyd of Ballymacool in the County of Donegal Esquire the sole Executor.
In his will, he leaves his land to his nephew, John Robert Boyd of Ballymacool, plus substantial sums of money to this nephew, his nieces, Patty Boyd and Frances Boyd, Mary Porter, Ann Ross and Isabella Robinson. He also leaves bequests to the Rev Henry Kingsmill, the Rector of Conwall parish church, and asks to be buried in "Letterkenny Churchyard", with his "father, mother and brothers", which suggests that he was a Church of Ireland minister, not a Presbyterian.
There is also this death notice in the Londonderry Sentinel:
Boyd William 25-Mar-59, March 16, at Kiltoe, in the county of Donegal, the Rev. William Boyd, aged 86 years.