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Thomas Boyd

Male Abt 1370 - Aft 1425  (~ 55 years)


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  • Name Thomas Boyd 
    Birth Abt 1370  of Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4
    Gender Male 
    Death Aft 16 Jul 1425  [5, 6
    Person ID I27421  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JMF
    Last Modified 25 Sep 2020 

    Father Robert Boyd   d. Between 11 Nov 1372 and 15 Nov 1385 
    Mother Margaret Giffard,   b. Abt 1350   d. Aft 1 Dec 1399 (Age ~ 49 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1370  [5
    Family ID F16399  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family (Unknown) Stewart 
    Children 
    +1. Margaret Boyd   d. Aft 16 Sep 1453
    +2. Thomas Boyd   d. 7 Jul 1439, Craignaught Hill, Renfrewshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F16372  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 4 Sep 2020 

  • Notes 
    • "Lord of Kilmarnock [… Succeeded] before 15 November 1385 (by which date his mother had remarried), styled 'domino de Kilmernok' as witness to a charter confirmed by Robert III on 17 August 1399, had a remission in 1409 from the Duke of Albany for the slaughter of Neilson of Dalrymple, petitioned with the other Gifford coheirs on 1 August 1420 for the erection of the collegiate church of Bothanis, a hostage in 1424 and 1425 for the ransom of King James I and for a time confined in England, the events of his life are often confused with those of his son Sir Thomas Boyd." [The Ancestry of Charles II, citation details below]

      A footnote on the same page (174) of The Ancestry of Charles II: "He did not die 7 July 1432, his wife was not Joanna Montgomery, and Margaret Boyd was not the daughter of his son Sir Thomas Boyd, as is generally stated, e.g., in SP 5:140. The lives of these members of the Boyd family have been confused and Robert Boyd, father of [this Thomas Boyd] and husband of the Giffard heiress, has been omitted altogether. 'Alice Gifford,' the supposed wife of [this Thomas Boyd] never existed. This Thomas is not known to have been knighted."

  • Sources 
    1. [S53] The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215: The Barons Named in the Magna Charta, 1215, and Some of Their Descendants Who Settled in America During the Early Colonial Years by Frederick Lewis Weis. Fifth edition, with additions and corrections by Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. and William R. Beal. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1999., place only.

    2. [S1480] The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England: A Medieval Heritage by Charles M. Hansen and Neil D. Thompson. Saline, Michigan: McNaughton and Gunn, 2012., date only.

    3. [S128] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant ed. Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Duncan Warrand, Howard de Walden, Geoffrey H. White and R. S. Lea. 2nd edition. 14 volumes (1-13, but volume 12 spanned two books), London, The St. Catherine Press, 1910-1959. Volume 14, "Addenda & Corrigenda," ed. Peter W. Hammond, Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing, 1998., place only.

    4. [S4088] Andrew B. W. MacEwen, "The Boyd Tomb at Kilmarnock." The Genealogist 24:52, Spring 2010.

    5. [S1480] The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England: A Medieval Heritage by Charles M. Hansen and Neil D. Thompson. Saline, Michigan: McNaughton and Gunn, 2012.

    6. [S4088] Andrew B. W. MacEwen, "The Boyd Tomb at Kilmarnock." The Genealogist 24:52, Spring 2010., year only.