Rachel Blair

I believe the correct parent is Thomas Boyd, but trying to resolve the conflict does not allow Thomas to be selected.

From what I understand : James Blair erected a stone in Aghadowey churchyard to the memory of his wife, Rachel Boyd, who died March 10, 1700 aged fifty-six years. They had a son named Robert who married Isabella Rankin, daughter of David Rankin, who came from Scotland in 1685 and died in Aghadowey in 1750 aged eighty-four years as is cut on his tombstone.

Robert Blair who married Isabella Rankin and was the son of James Blair and Rachel Boyd, was the ancestor of the New England Blairs.

• James Blair, born between 1644 and 1650 in Aghadowey, Antrim, Ulster, Ireland, died after 1732 in Massachusetts.
• He married about 1660 in Aghadowey, Antrim, Ulster, Ireland, Rachel Boyd, born 1644 in Aghadowey, Antrim, Ulster, Ireland, died 10 March 1699/1700 in Aghadowey, Antrim, Ulster, Ireland.
• They emigrated from Londonderry, Ireland, aboard The Robert arriving 4 August 1718 in Boston, Massachusetts

Children:

1. 1. William, born 1682 in Aghadowey, Antrim, Ulster, Ireland
2. 2. Robert, born 1683 in Aghadowey, Antrim, Ulster, Ireland, died 2 February 1775 in Worcester, Massachusetts, buired at Common Cemetery, Worcester, Massachusetts.
3. 3. John, born 1683 in Aghadowey, Antrim, Ulster, Ireland

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Rachel Blair (Boyd) Sex: Kvinna Born: cirka 1644 Aghadowey, Antrim, Ulster, Ireland D: 10 mars 1700 (52-60) Aghadowey, Antrim, Ulster, Ireland Family: Daughter of James Boyd, 9th Lord Boyd of Kilmarnock och Catherine Creyke Wife of David Blair och James Blair Mother to/of William Scott Blair; Abraham Blair; James; Col. Robert Blair och John Blair Sister to/of John Boyd; Mary Margaret Boyd; William Boyd, 1st Earl of Kilmarnock; Jean Boyd; Catherine Boyd och 2 andra Skapad av: Eileen Patricia Burroughs, 24 januari 2009 Förvaltas av: Kevin Lawrence Hanit, Eileen Patricia Burroughs, Doug Robinson, Priscilla del gesso, Patricia Jane Small, David Alan Blair, Stephanie Siame Alvarez (Petersen) och <private> Leitch.

From what I understand : James Blair erected a stone in Aghadowey churchyard to the memory of his wife, Rachel Boyd, who died March 10, 1700 aged fifty-six years. They had a son named Robert who married Isabella Rankin, daughter of David Rankin, who came from Scotland in 1685 and died in Aghadowey in 1750 aged eighty-four years as is cut on his tombstone.

Robert Blair who married Isabella Rankin and was the son of James Blair and Rachel Boyd, was the ancestor of the New England Blairs.

James Blair, born between 1644 and 1650 in Aghadowey, Antrim, Ulster, Ireland, died after 1732 in Massachusetts. He married about 1660 in Aghadowey, Antrim, Ulster, Ireland, Rachel Boyd, born 1644 in Aghadowey, Antrim, Ulster, Ireland, died 10 March 1699/1700 in Aghadowey, Antrim, Ulster, Ireland. They emigrated from Londonderry, Ireland, aboard The Robert arriving 4 August 1718 in Boston, Massachusetts Children:

1. William, born 1682 in Aghadowey, Antrim, Ulster, Ireland 2. Robert, born 1683 in Aghadowey, Antrim, Ulster, Ireland, died 2 February 1775 in Worcester, Massachusetts, buired at Common Cemetery, Worcester, Massachusetts. 3. John, born 1683 in Aghadowey, Antrim, Ulster, Ireland.
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At the opening of the fateful year of 1688, the Blairs were quietly pursuing their pastoral lives. Then Abraham Blair went to Derry, and while he was gallantly fighting there the King's soldiers were harrying his defenseless kindred, sacking and burning their houses, forcing many of the suffering crowds under the walls he was defending. His brother James' wife, Rachel (Boyd) Blair, managed to evade the hunters. With her little children she cowered in the sheltering furze. Her son, Robert was then about five years of age, old enough to receive a vivid, lasting impression of the devastation of their cherished home. His mother was a descendant of Thomas Boyd, who, in 1576, settled at Craig, a village lying between Ballymena and Kilrea. He could trace his ancestry back to Lord Boyd, who was a guardian of James Stuart III [of Scotland who later became James I of England] during his minority. In 1467, the eldest son of Lord Boyd created Earl of Antrim and married the King's sister. Owing to enemies at court, in 1469, they were convicted of treason and their estates were forfeited; they then were governing the lordships of Kilmarnock, Ayran, Bute Cowal, Renfrew, besides the castle of Rothsay. Lord Boyd fled to Oxfordshire, and his brother Alexander was executed on Castle Hill.

The gravestone erected to the memory of Mrs. Rachel (Boyd) Blair by her husband, James Blair, is still standing, and as it is alone, it strengthens the inference that her husband accompanied his brother Abraham, and his own sons when they sailed away to New England. Mrs. Rachel Blair died May 10, 1700, aged fifty-six years.