| He is claimed as an ancestor by several families, but nothing appears to be known about him. According to one account he was born in Kilmarnock August 1689, baptized there 24 October following, and died November 1762, having married there, 25 October 1714, Margaret Thomson, by whom he had eleven children, one of whom, the fourth son, William, is said to have gone to Buchan with James, Lord Boyd, after he succeeded (1758) to the earldom of Erroll, and to have settled as a manufacturer in Turriff, Aberdeenshire. This latter statement is borne out by the registers, as his fourth child, Erroll, is baptized at Kilmarnock 15 September 1761, and the fifth, Janet, at Turriff 3 June 1763. The Kilmarnock registers, however, contain no entry of the birth or baptism of a Robert Boyd in 1689, and the Robert who was married in 1714 is described as a 'glover in Kilmarnock,' and no reference is made to his being an Honourable or the son of the Earl.3 |