Boys Family in East Kent Parishes

[Deirdre H]

Hi

You were looking at trying to connect Daniel Boys (1685 - 1726, married to Mary Ann Page) to one of the other branches of the Boys families. I have found Daniel's father (also Daniel Boys - 1652 - 1727, married to Ann Theobald), then I got stuck. I was wondering if you'd managed to get any further?

Best wishes

Deirdre

[DavefromKent]

Hi Deirdre
No I also have come to a grinding halt with Daniel Boys/Ann Theobald of Lynsted.
Where did you get his birth as being 1652, according to his burial details he was 91 when he died which would make his birth date approx 1636.
I have found in the Canterbury "Strangers Church" Baptisms details, an entry for Daniel du Boys baptised 1593. He came from a huguenot family that escaped persecution and I presume settled in Kent. Some huguenot families are said to have settled in Faversham which is a neighbouring town to Lynsted.
I have also traced Lilian Boys Behrens family as I believed she was in someway related to my family line, she visited my Grandfather at one time.

Have a good Christmas and a happy New Year

David 

[Deirdre H]

Hi David

Thank you for your reply. I think I got Daniel Boys' date of birth from a match with another family tree - I have gone into it but not found any documentation that relates to his date of birth or age at death / burial. I am new at this so I may well have got this incorrect.

I have found a Kent Online Parish Clerks site that has 5 Boys family trees - The Godmersham family tree is the one my Dad originates from. There is a much bigger one from 1067 stretching to 98 pages which Lilian Boys-Behrens appears as a footnote on one of the pages saying she is a daughter - although it is unclear which of 2 brothers is her father. That line descends from Rev Richard Boys.

I have a Rr Admiral William Henry in the family tree I've put together, married to Charlotte Sophia Greenall. This couple appear in the large 1067 family tree as descendants of one of John Boys and Mary Harvey's sons (a separate branch from Rev Richard Boys), but I have a feeling I've mixed up 2 different William Henry's so I need to go back to look at this again. Otherwise I could find no shared individuals in the 2 family trees.

Best wishes for the New Year

Deirdre

[Derek Boys]

Hi, I am from the New Zealand branch of Boys and would like a copy if possible.

Hi Only just found your msg and have lost track of what it was all about
you can e-mail me at [Moderator edit: email address removed] if you wish

Derek

[Prvanov]

Hi there,
Luch Boys married Thomas Woodland Gambrill.
They are my 3rd great grandparents. Their son Thomas Boys (my 3rd great grandfather) came to New Zealand, where I live with 11 or 12 of their children.
Jocelyn

[boys-hall]

Hi all,  I was wondering if anyone could tell me anything about Boys Hall and also Thomas Boys of Boys Hall? Thank you

[WOLVERHAMPTON HIGGS]

Hi, I am looking for information on Robert Boys, born 1778 in Sandwich, Kent, to William (occupation Surgeon) and Jane. Robert became a Major in the Royal Marines and never married. He lived in Southwark, London. I believe he may have illegitimately fathered a child, Robert Rushbury to Sarah Rushbury in 1806. The birth is in parish registers in Lambeth, recorded incorrectly with the surname 'Rusby'. When Robert Rushbury later married, he mentioned that Robert Boys was his father.
I would like to find out more about him and his family, if anyone has any records about them please?

Thank you
 

[Sara234]

My grandmother was a Boys.   She maintained that one of her ancestors had a monument in Canterbury cathedral (Very unlikely I know, as I think  both the Johns died without heirs) and she remembered a coat of arms - though of course, being quite young at the time I took no interest in asking about it.

BUT  my grandmother came from Sunderland.  Her father, Thomas Boys (b. 1864), lived in Sunderland, but I believe that his father, Gardiner Boys, came from Durham.

The family seemed to have gone up geographically as they went down socially!

I've found it hard to track backwards from Gardiner, and I wondered whether any members of this forum had found any instances of Boys migrating to the north of England so that I could try a two pronged approach.

A long shot I know, but I thought it was worth a try.