William Boys

Born [date unknown] in Goodnestone, Kent, England

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 1307 in Kent, England

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Biography

William Boys, the son of William Boys married Maude de Bonyngton. William died in 1307. He and Maude were the parents of Edmund Boys who married Mary ____. No birth date is indicated in the source. A previously estimated 1209 birth year has been removed, as his father died in 1179.

Sources

• Geoff Swinfield’s “English research on the ancestry of Theophilus Wilson and allied Boys and Ower families”, dated 2002 and 2003, Mss 1087, can be found in the R. Stanton Avery Special Collections at NEHGS Library. On page 2 of his report dated 23 June 2003, Swinfield explains that in the pedigree collection at The Society of Genealogists he found a pedigree compiled by George J. Blake. The pedigree was donated in 1997 by J. C. Kennett as part of the George John Blake Bequest, “clearly in a modern hand”. It extends the pedigree of the Boys family back to John de Bosco (died in 1096) who may have been the son of Richard de Bosco. That pedigree appears to be the source of the information in the attached photo (Boys-106.jpg) which has the notation “A fuller copy of this Pedigree can be seen in the British Museum”.

Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile De Bois-8 created through the import of Ann Lambs feb 2011 gedcom.ged on May 27, 2011 by Ann Sims.