Rebecca (Boyd) McKaughan
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Rebecca (Boyd) McKaughan (abt. 1716 - 1816)

Rebecca McKaughan formerly Boyd
Born about in County Antrim, Irelandmap
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of — married 1733 in County Antrim, Irelandmap
Descendants descendants
Mother of , , , and
Died at about age 100 in Jackson County, Tennesseemap
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Biography

Rebecca Boyd was born in Ireland in 1716 (or 1711 by some sources). By some accounts, she was the only child of Alexander Boyd of "Glass island", County Antrim, a glass manufacturer. Other sources list Rebecca's parents as unknown. In 1733 she married Archibald McKaughan Sr. The At least two sons, Archibald McKaughan Jr and McKaughan-93 I Hugh McKaughan were born in Ireland before the family emigrated to America and settled in Pennsylvania, USA. Additional children, Margaret and Rebecca McKaughan were born in the United States. At some point, she moved to Jackson County, Tennessee, where she died in 1816, at the age of 100. She is buried in tomb type grave in the Rob Draper Cemetery near Gainesboro, Jackson County, Tennessee."


For information about her Boyd family and glass industry in Antrim see Glens of Antrim Historical Society.[[1]]

Sources

Edmund West, comp.. "Family Data Collection - Marriages" [database on-line, accessed 13 Jul 2018]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, 2001.

Four Generations of McKaughans in America: "Rebecca settled in Jackson Co., TN according to tax receipts.

Perkins, Minniebell McKaughan, compiler. "Cuz of Sorts", North American Descendents of Gaelic Clain MacEachain, 1991. Copy of original compilation. Minniebell Perkins is identifies Alexander Boyd as Rebecca Boyd's father.

Ancestry.com. [database on-line], accessed 16 Jul 2018. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data: "Find A Grave." Find A Grave, 2012. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi.

"Find A Grave," database and images (https://www.findagrave.com: accessed 18 July 2018), memorial page for Rebecca "Boyd" McKaughan (1716-1816). Find A Grave Memorial no. 61873692, citing Draper Memorial Cemetery, Gainesboro, Jackson County, Tennessee, USA; Maintained by Hooshur (contributor 47192472).

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Van Antwerp-29 Nancy Van Antwerp
Thanks to Lora Boles for helping to clear up the mystery of "Glass Island" associated with Ballycastle's Glass Industry. It was an informal designation for an area around the inner dock where the glassworks factory, which opened in 1755, was situated. No wonder the Ulster genealogists couldn't identify it. Interestingly, the article on Ballycastle's Glass Industry (http://antrimhistory.net/ballycastles-glass-industry/) only speaks about Hugh Boyd's association with Glass Island but not Alexander Boyd, the reported father of Rebecca Boyd, according to Minniebell McKaughan Perkins in "Cuz of Sorts". I'm still unable to verify Rebecca Boyd's parentage.
posted by Nancy Van Antwerp
Van Antwerp-29 Nancy Van Antwerp
Some family trees associate Rebecca Boyd's father, Alexander Boyd with "Glass Island" and identify him as a glass manufacturer. In attempting to research this further during a visit to the Ulster-Scot Center in Belfast, Northern Ireland (June 2018), staff genealogists told me they could find no historical town, village or other location known as "Glass Island" in County Antrium or elsewhere in Ireland. The only plausible explanation they had was that it might refer to quartz rock that remains prevalent along the coast of County Ulster. Rocks with shiny specks are plentiful in the area about the Giant Causeway, not far from Ballycastle, County Antrium.
posted by Nancy Van Antwerp

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