We come now to the family that was synonymous with the beautiful seaside town of Ballycastle for over three hundred […]

For the best part of nearly two hundred years the origins of the Boyds of Ballycastle has been pondered over

In our last post we recorded the birth of a son John on 29 December 1718 to Augustus (Jean ‘Auguste’)

In our final installment on the Boyds of France we look at arguably the most successful line of the family

On 24 May 2026 I was contacted by Alistair Hill who advised me that he had found an image in

As mentioned in Part 3, Jacques Boyd was the son of George (III) Boyd and his second wife Anne Sauret.

In this post we look at the line of George (III) Boyd (c1667-1747) son of Jean (I) Boyd and Jeanne

The subject of this relatively short article is Major George Boyd who is evidenced primarily from a memorial tablet on

In our previous post we looked at the earliest member of the Boyd family of Portencross to live in France,

As mentioned in our previous post on the The Boyds of Ardneil & Portencross, Ayrshire, Scotland, the youngest son, George,