Thomas Boyd and Leticia Wallace Boyd family Members

[Irish Lynn]

Hi ladies! 

Aghadowey, i have always wondered about the Archie Gilmore that lived with Thomas Boyd in 1855 census.  Do you know if that is more than just a friend from the same town? Wondered if there was a relations there. 

Hope all is well with you!  Irish Lynn

[aghadowey]

Archibald Gilmore was a son of John Gilmore and Letitia (descendants of Archibald's give her maiden name as Thompson). He married Jane Stuart Gray of Cullycapple.

[Irish Lynn]

Did Archie Gilmore go back to Ireland or stay in NYCity? You mention he married a girl from Cullycapple.

Thanks and any relationship with your family??

[aghadowey]

Archibald Gilmore married 1857 in New York, was there until at least 1863 but living in Georgia by 1866 (there in 1872) and by 1880 had moved further south to Florida.

Almost all the Aghadowey Gilmores (Glenkeen, Aghadowey, Lissaghmore, Carnrallagh, Crevolea, etc.) are related somehow.

[JohnDoe2020]

There is an Isabella Boyd b1765 married Paul Orr and both lived in Aghadowey Parish near Coleraine. Perhaps part of your family. They had 9 children many of whom came to the US. They are a well documented couple and are the ancestors of some 2500+ descendants. See a book "Orr, Cambell, Mitchell and Shirley families in Ireland and America and More" by Elaine L. Orr

[aghadowey]

There is an Isabella Boyd b1765 married Paul Orr and both lived in Aghadowey Parish near Coleraine. Perhaps part of your family. They had 9 children many of whom came to the US. They are a well documented couple and are the ancestors of some 2500+ descendants. See a book "Orr, Cambell, Mitchell and Shirley families in Ireland and America and More" by Elaine L. Orr

Boyd is an extremely common surname in Aghadowey Parish and vacinity. Elaine Orr has done a tremendous amount of work updating the original inaccurate family history and added lots more details.

[Robmatewsky-Boyd]

My Y haplo is R-U198 Noble Boyd line. I seem to match the Orr Family Paul and Isabelle Orr and think she is a Great Aunt. I also seem to match the defendants of the Gray and Mary Boyd Mcgregor came to NH . Has anyone located the property mentioned in the will on the Orr site for Isabelle Boyd-Orr. If you have any info on this family o please message me . I also have Matches with Rachel Boyd Blair’s  decendants . I was suspecting maybe a potential connection to Rev William Boyd but who knows . I understand there where a lot of Boyd’s but the more I research the dna it seems to have a specific connection to these families that are Reverends.
“John Buckles Boyd of Ballymena” , I Y match the decendants but it could be closer to  a 16th century common ancestor.

[aghadowey]

My Y haplo is R-U198 Noble Boyd line. I seem to match the Orr Family Paul and Isabelle Orr and think she is a Great Aunt. I also seem to match the defendants of the Gray and Mary Boyd Mcgregor came to NH . Has anyone located the property mentioned in the will on the Orr site for Isabelle Boyd-Orr. If you have any info on this family o please message me . I also have Matches with Rachel Boyd Blair’s  decendants . I was suspecting maybe a potential connection to Rev William Boyd but who knows . I understand there where a lot of Boyd’s but the more I research the dna it seems to have a specific connection to these families that are Reverends.
“John Buckles Boyd of Ballymena” , I Y match the decendants but it could be closer to  a 16th century common ancestor.

Could you explain which property you mean.

You've probably done lots of research on your family already but who are your Boyd ancestors. I have files on Boyds and other local families but need more details to make a connection.

[Robmatewsky-Boyd]

I have a good Paper trail and dna matches that the paper stops at John Boyd B1795 Virginia Wife: Elizabeth  Dungan Born 24 Mar 1798 7Mile Ford , Smyth Co Virginia - John’s birthplace is unknown . One  census record for there son said VA The county’s Changed a bit in that part of VA.
They had a Son Andrew Jackson Boyd whom is my Grandfather other children of there’s include . Francis Boyd-Tankersely,
Charles Duncan BoydB 1818, Martha Boyd- Vermillion.? Dr James Harvey Boyd

Andrew Jackson Boyd Married Sarah Arnold . They lived in Russell Co, Va and moved around a bit after . Ther son Robert Cleveland Boyd was my GF. B 1841 VA d: 9 Mar 1924 Caldwell, Texas
He had a brother  Napoleon Bonaparte Boyd who was born in Alabama and several other siblings. He married Penelope Lemley. And they had a son . Robert Walter Boyd B 10 May 1872 Robertson Co Tennessee d1962 Austin Co Texas.  Married Eliza Lydia Wright. They had a so Walter Willard Boyd my 1st GGF and he has a son Robert Wellington Boyd
My GF.  I suspect John’s ancestor may have migrated through Prince George after 1718 but nothing convincing yet .
The dna matches I have grouped are all female names that seem to tie into my Boyd line . Almost if John Boyd 1795 didn’t have any Uncles or if he did they didn’t have big families. They may have came down through the ShenandoayValley through  Ny from New England  but suspect they came over shortly after the 1718 migration. I have 20 cm matches that point to Isabelle Boyd Orr
And a few lower ones that point to James McGregor , Rachel Blair-Boyd family and Was thinking there is a Gray connection that match the 1718 family close to John Boyd maybe a mother or Grandmother but just a suspicious thought. Somehow these other families from that region tie into my tree as I all my other family’s in my tree are from different geographical locations . I have gone through a lot of names on file from Mike Boyd Historian from Australia and Colin Brooks 1718 Project who runs a Boyd Geneology Group.
  I was thinking locating the Property that Isabelle Boyd Orr inherited might help . The one that was Mentioned on the Orr Family Reunion site.
Mike and Colin also mentioned a lot of info in the Blair Family History Book isn’t accurate or proven. I have a connection to the Blair’s as well that seem to tie in somehow. There are a lot of Boyd researchers out there none want to seem to take a YTest.
John Buckles Boyd Family I match on the Y but it could be after the migration to N Ireland where we have a common ancestor. Thanks for your help . I would recommend the Boyd IO group that Colin runs as Mike Boyd Historian is always looking to add more families to his Book and collection and Collin also is a 1718 Researcher . Maybe some collaboration could help all of us and Boyds families searching for there ancestors.