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Boyd Family
Mason Family
Boyd Ancestry
Hastings
Lillian
Boyd
James Boyd
William Miller Boyd
Robert McGee
Boyd
John Noel Boyd
William
Miller Boyd
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Born: 29.3.1888
Born in Birkenhead.
In 1911 (Census)
he was living at 27 Leicester Street,
Birkenhead.
1911 Census Household Record |
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Father:
Robert Magee
Boyd,
(b. 1863).
Occupation -
Chipper And Caulker, in the shipyards.
Married in 1887 to Sarah Thomas Miller.
Thanks to Claire Layfield for her research
into her family tree. Robert's middle name
was Magee. My father said that was the
original spelling.
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see ancestry |
Mother:
Sarah Thomas
Miller (
(b. 1864)
Thanks to Claire Layfield for her research
into her family tree. I originally had Sarah
Davies here. Claire's find explains two
things: what dad said about her name being
Thomas and the Miller connection held by the
William Miller Boyds in the family.
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Married:
Elizabeth
Ann Hastings
June, 1911, Birkenhead (Vol. 8a page
1034)
William was
living at 15 Dover Street at the time.
Elizabeth was living at 40 Dover Street |
Marriage Certificate:
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N.B. Willam James Garrock and Nellie
Garrock were witnesses at the wedding of
Elizabeth & William.
(Nellie may have been Elizabeth's sister) |
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Interests: Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes (The Buffs) |
Occupation:
Boilermaker and ship plate riveter. He
worked in the shipyard at Cammel Laird -
History.
He broke both knees
falling down a ladder - knees got held in the ladder as he fell.
Photo (above right) was taken in the convalescent
home. He went back to work on the ships
during WWII. Shortly after the accident he
had a stroke and several after that - 4, 5
or 6. His head was sewn up and
Dad
pushed him around in a chair (4 wheels NB
Grandma's ie Sarah chair had 2 wheels)
Saying according to
Dad:
"That ship won't sink because it is well
'Boyd up'." |
Died:
15.2.1963.
(This is the day my
brother,
William Miller Boyd, was born in
Hornsby Hospital, NSW Australia.)
His ashes were scattered over the graves of
his wife & daughter, Lillian, in Landican Cemetery, Arrowe Park Road, Birkenhead
He had been living with Violet &
Jim for a while.
(see letter dated 1959).
Violet threw him out and he moved in with Mary &
John
(see letter dated September, 1960)
until
he died.
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Siblings: |
Second
names and other notes came from dad.
DOB & first name from
1911
census.
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1888 |
William
Miller |
married
Elizabeth Hasting. (In 1911 worked in the
shipyard) |
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1890 |
Robert
Cadman |
killed
in WWI 1918 |
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for WWI information.
(In 1911 worked in the
shipyard) |
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1892 |
James
Thomas |
killed
in WWI |
(In 1911
worked in the
shipyard) |
28.9.1896
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George
Abbott |
sniper
in WWI
Died Dec qtr 1972 |
(In 1911
worked as an errand boy for a shop)
Married Florence Edwards |
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1899 |
John
Noel |
sniper
in WWI |
Married to Ellen Jones |
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1902 |
Edmund |
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1906 |
Lilian |
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Children:
Sarah Lilian
(b. 1911)
Jim
James Thomas Boyd
(b. 31.12.1913 died. April 2003)
William Miller Boyd
(b.
1915)
Dad
(Robert McGee
(b. 1918 - 2009)
John
John Noel Boyd ( b. 1921
- d unsure))
William Miller Boyd
(Bill)
born 1927 died Feb 13 1997
Eunice - (died
as baby - 3 months old from pneumonia)
Dad & John had her coffin on their knees in
the car going to the funeral (to save
money). The coffin was brown, as they all
were. "Dad, how did you feel". "I knew
she couldn't hurt me". "She was in the
parlour which was open all the while and
they kept showing people." |
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Grandfather: John Boyd
who was born
in 1839 in Donaghadee, County Down, Ireland.
He died in 1901 in Birkenhead. |
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Grandmother:
Isabella Lewis.
She was born in 1839
(Monmouth, Gwent, Wales)
and died in Birkenhead
in 1912.
On 14th April 1862
she married John Boyd at St Marys Church,
Birkenhead
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