CHIEF:  Alastair Ivor Gilbert Boyd 7th Baron Kilmarnock

Richard G. and Jerri Lynn Boyd

568 W. Friedrich Street

Rogers City, Mich. 49779

Marguerite Boyd ~ Andrew Greer

Haverhill, MA

Great-grandmother Marguerite Boyd was supposedly born in Belfast Ireland, but the family was allegedly from Edinburgh, Scotland originally.  Her father was Thomas Boyd.  Now Marguerite married or eloped with a man named Andrew Greer, perhaps from England. My grandmother never knew her father because he died 3 months before she was born.

They came over to the States between 1896-1899, and were supposed to be managing a stone-ware factory somewhere in Ohio. Somehow or other later on about 1900 they ended up in Massachusetts. They lived in the Haverhill Mass. area.

Marguerite was born about 1871, and died 21 Oct. 1913 from exhaustion. Her husband Andrew Greer and his brother (name unknown) both died in Mass. around 1900 of stone-masons disease of the lung.  He left a wife and four children. Andrew, a son, and Mary (Minnie) my grandmother. The other two children died in the early 1900's from a black diptheria epidemic that hit the area hard.

As you can see, this is a bit vague, but it's all I have. My grandmother passed away last summer and I never got to tell her about her family because they have been like elusive butterflies!  I've been told that the Boyd's are of the Stuart clan, and that the family was active in many things. This Bella Boyd was very high up in the Salvation Army over there, but that's all I know of her. Is there any help for me out there?

I was told they came in at Canada, but that didn't check out, so I wish we could get a break somehow. Thanks for listening anyway, and if anyone has heard of these people, please email me?

Carol Mushero

 
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