Alexander Boyd (1725 - 1780)

Born 14 Dec 1725 in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland

Ancestors

Husband of Margaret (Black) Boyd — married 1740 in Cecil Co, Province of Maryland

Descendants

Died 27 Nov 1780 at age 54 in W Notingham, Cecil Co, Maryland, USA

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Biography

Alexander Boyd is a member of Clan Boyd.

Alexander Boyd migrated from Scotland to Colonial America.

There is an unnamed child, unknown gender or name, that is a child of Robert Boyd and Margaret Thomson (5th child), that was born 14 Dec 1725 in Kilmarnock, which matches the date of this profile.^[1]

Marriage

Date: 1740

Place: Cecil Co, Maryland

Occupation

Occupation: Plantation Owner

Date: 1780

Place: Cecil Co, Maryland, USA

In 1780 Alexander Boyd of of West Nottingham in Cecil Co. made his will. He named his widow, Margaret, a daughter, Margaret, and sons, Robert, Hugh, Francis, and Alexander. (This from the Clan Web Society webpage.)

Sources

1. ↑ Scotlands People Church Registers, Old Parish Registers, births and baptisms, unnamed Boyd, parents - Robert Boyd and Margaret Thomson, Gender - U, 14/12/1725, Parish Number 597, Ref 10 475, Parish Kilmarnock, Accessed 2 Jun 2022

• http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/CLANBOYD/2001-01/0979787640 - source does not work.

• Source: S18 Record ID Number: MH:S18 User ID: 3F313CC3-618A-4248-87A8-98F27813DE12 Author: Gale Research Title: Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010.Original data - Filby, P. William, ed. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2010.Original data: Filby, P. William, ed. Passenge Repository: #R1 Note: #N1332

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Ken Broughton for creating WikiTree profile Boyd-3051 through the import of James K Broughton Family Tree.ged on Jul 28, 2013.