Boyd,Robert Shankill

[Cboyd13]

Mary Browns dad was Richard Brown and Samuel Boyds dad was Hugh Boyd

[aghadowey]

Still going over yesterday's posts again but may have found more on Robert James after re-reading "Robert James who was listed in army inscription under James"

Could this be Robert James?

James Boyd, son of Samuel, m.(1910) Annie Thompson
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1910/09980/5628955.pdf (85 Argyle St.)
www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Antrim/Wood_Vale_Ward/Argyle_Street/293373
1. Jane Boyd (1911) https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1911/01532/1621057.pdf (94 Argyll St.)
2. Margaret Minnie Boyd (1913) https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1913/01465/1597784.pdf (168 Conway St.)
3. Thomas James Boyd (1914) https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1914/01397/1574634.pdf (156 Conway St., father labourer now soldier)

[Cboyd13]

Your a start that def looks like he did get married as I thought and have a wife and got a feeling David Cowan is also his son. My grandad seems to been have close to his brother ten years older and lived with him and named his own sons after him.

Looking got Hugh Boyd’s details in the Census just now and would like to find John

[Cboyd13]

That was your a star

[aghadowey]

If James Boyd of Argyll St. is your Robert James Boyd then things have just gotten a lot more complicated. Still checking and re-checking….

Meanwhile, do you have any military details for him- especially date enlisted, rank and details of wife or children?

[Cboyd13]

It might not be him I suppose like everything need to be sure

All I have is

http://eddiesextracts.com/rohpci/rohwoodvalepk.html


I looked up the address on my grandads army enlistment which was 27 heather street and I took me to this page and Robert James is down as James under the same address saying he joined the 13th Batt Royal Irish Rifles my grandad was the 15th hated it and moved to the navy but no more on Robert James

[Cboyd13]

My grandad signed up on the 27th April 1915 so two days after his 19th birthday not sure about Robert James who was ten years older than him and born around 1886

[aghadowey]

Oh dear, oh dear 

Marriage of Robert Taylor of Heather St., Belfast, to Margaret McCarthy in Ballymena on 8 Jan.1905-
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1905/10149/5692787.pdf

Belfast News-Letter, 17 May 1905: ... young man named Robert James Boyd was brought in custody, charged by District-Inspector J. 0. Milling with having, at Ballymena the 8th January last, married Margaret during the life of his wife, Margaret Ann Boyd. [other scan shows wife as Martha Ann not Margaret Ann]

Northern Whig, 15 July 1905: BIGAMY CASE. Extraordinary Circumstances. Robert James Boyd pleaded guilty to the charge of bigamy at Ballymena the 8th June, by going through the form of marriage with one Maggie Macartney ...

Belfast News-Letter, 8 Sept.1905: THE RECENT BALLYMENA BIGAMY CASE. CHARGE OF PERJURY. James Clarke defended. Rev. H. G. Austin deposed to marrying the accused to Robert Taylor, who afterwards turned out to be Robert James Boyd. Mary Ann Boyd stated that her husband's name was Robert James Boyd. While they were living in Argyle Street, Belfast, the accused called frequently at their house. She knew witness was married Robert James Boyd. Sergeant de...

[aghadowey]

A Robert James Boyd married 1902 Belfast to Martha Ann O'Hara- but gives father as Robert James Boyd!
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1902/10260/5734193.pdf


Back to Annie (Thompson) Boyd-
1918- 168 Conway St.: Annie Boyd http://www.lennonwylie.co.uk/ccomplete1918_b.htm
1924- same http://www.lennonwylie.co.uk/ccomplete1924_b.htm