Janet Holmes (Craighead) Boyd (1705 - 1779)

Born 1705 in Ireland

Ancestors

Wife of Adam Boyd IV — married 23 Oct 1725 in British Colonial America

Descendants

Died 9 Nov 1779 at about age 74 in Chester, Pennsylvania, United States

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Janet (Craighead) Boyd was born in Ireland.

Janet (Craighead) Boyd was a Pennsylvanian.

Biography

Janet (she went by her nickname Jane) was born about 1705 in Ireland to parents Rev. Thomas Craighead Sr. and Margaret (Wallace) Holmes Craighead.

She married Rev. Andrew Boyd IV, who became a prominent Presbyterian minister in Pennsylvania and who had immigrated to America from Ireland in 1722. They married in 1725 and had eleven children together:

1. Margaret Boyd (1726-1801)
2. Janet Craighead Boyd (1730-1808)
3. Thomas Boyd (1731-1779)
4. Agnes Boyd (1732-1780)
5. John Boyd (1733-1809)
6. Mary Boyd (1736-1808)
7. Adam Boyd (1738-1800)
8. Andrew Boyd (1740-?)
9. Hannah Boyd (1743-?)
10. Elizabeth Boyd (1745-1821)
11. Samuel Boyd (1747-1780)

Jane passed away in 1779 in Chester, Pennsylvania and is buried in Upper Octorara Church Cemetery, Parkesburg, Chester, Pennsylvania.

Sources

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/75905625/jane-boyd: accessed 14 August 2022), memorial page for Jane Craighead Boyd (unknown–unknown), Find a Grave Memorial ID 75905625, citing Upper Octorara Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Sadsbury Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA; Maintained by Ronald Walter Tipton (contributor 46984376).

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