Helen Boyd

HELEN BOYD

Helen Boyd is the daughter of Robert, Lord Boyd.NRS: GD8/162 Her mother is probably Margaret Colquhoun. The Scots Peerage V: p. 162

Death

A date and place of death has not been identified for Helen Boyd. However, her husband married his second wife, Marjory Sempill, before 13 May 1588 and it seems that she must have died before this date. NRS: GD3/1/10/36/2

Marriage

Helen Boyd married Hugh Montgomery of Hessilhead. They were contracted on 27 December 1559 The Scots Peerage V: p. 162 and married before 10 January 1559-60, when her husband gave her the lands of Lyandcorse and Willieyard in liferent. NRS: GD8/162

Children

1. Robert Montgomery of Hessilhead

Evidence from the Scots Peerage

10 January 1559-60: Charter by which Hughn Montgomery of Hessilhead confirms that he has to Helen Boyd, his wife, a liferent of the ten merk lands of Lyandcorse, in the Renfrewshire parish of Neilston, and the twenty pound lands of Willieyard in the Ayrshire parish of Beith. His charter follows from a marriage contract between Hugh and Robert, Lord Boyd, Helen's father, dated 27 December 1559. The Scots Peerage V: p. 162

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

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10 January 1559-60: Charter by Hugh Montgomery of Hasilhead, to Helen Boyd, daughter of Robert, Lord Boyd, and their tenants, of the liferent of the 10 mark lands of Lyandcors, lying in the parish of Neilston, sheriffdom of Renfrew, and the 20 shilling lands of Willizard, in the parish of Beith. National Records of Scotland, Boyd Papers, Burgh of Kilmarnock, reference GD8/162

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13 May 1588: Charter granted by Hugh Montgomery of Hessilhead in favour of Marjory Sympill, his spouse in free tenement or liferent for all the days of her life and to John Montgomery, his son procreate between him and the said Marjory his heirs male and assignees whomsoever in fee of the foresaid lands of Mekill Dregarne otherwise called Loch; to hold of him for payment of a silver penny upon the ground of the said lands at the feast of Whitsunday in name of feu farm if asked only reserving to him his free tenement and liferent of the said lands for all the days of his life Dated at Hessilhead Witnesses: John Hamilton of Cambuskeyth and others National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Montgomerie Family, Earls of Eglinton, reference GD3/1/10/36/2

Genealogical Accounts

1. James Paterson, History of the County of Ayr: With a Genealogocal Account of the Families of Ayrshire, Vol. I (John Dick, Ayr, MDCCCXLVII), pp. 290-92
2. A Genealogical History of the Family of Montgomery, pp. 134-36 for Montgomery of Hessilhead
3. The Scots Peerage, etc., edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, Lord Lyon King of Arms, Volume V (David Douglas, Edinburgh, 1908), pp.136-82 for Bpyd. Earl of Kilmarnock

Notes

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Helen Boyd (born about 1540) was the daughter of Robert Boyd, 5th Lord Boyd of Kilmarnock and Margaret Colquhoun.1 A contract for the marriage of Helen Boyd and Hugh Montgomerie of Hesilhead was signed on 10 January 1559/60.1

Family

• Father Robert Boyd, b. 1517, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland d. 3 Jan 1589, Alnwick, Northumberland, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years)
• Mother Margaret Colquhoun, b. 1525, Scotland d. Aug 1601, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
• Spouse Hugh Montgomerie, b. 1539, Hessilhead/Beith, Ayrshire, Scotland d. 1602 (Age 63 years) Married 10 Jan 1559 Scotland Children
• 1. Robert Montgomerie, b. 1561, Scotland d. 28 Oct 1623, Renfrewshire, ScotlandAge 62 years)
• 2. Ezekiel Montgomerie, b. Abt 1570, Giffen Castle/Beith, Ayrshire, Scotland
• 3. Elizabeth Montgomerie, b. 1572, Scotland
• 4. Jean Montgomerie, b. Abt 1576, Scotland

Last Modified 5 Apr 2018

Citations

• BP2003 volume 2, page 2157.
• Origin and History of the Montgomerys, Montgomery, Bo-Gabriel de, (Name: William Blackwood and Sons, Ltd; Location: Edinburgh and London; Date: 1948;), This book is available electronically on ancestry.com.

Links

• http://thepeerage.com/p60905.htm#i609044
• http://www.montyhistnotes.com/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I368...

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From "Old Greenock from the earliest times to the early part of the nineteenth" ... By George Williamson: "James Schaw succeeded his father in 1594. He married Margaret, daughter of Hugh Montgomerie of Hessilhead, and sister of Alexander Montgomerie. Of James Schaw, nothing is known except that he lived a quiet, country life, cultivating his paternal acres, not troubling himself as his father had done, or his son did after him, with politics, civil or ecclesiastical. He died in 1620 at Greenock, in the old family mansion. He left two sons, John and William."

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From Page 134 of A Genealogical History of the Family of Montgomery: Including the Montgomery ... “Montgomery of Hessilhead”

Hugh Montgomerie of Hessilhead, called by Crawford "Young Hugh," succeeded his father. He was a member of the famous Convention Parliament in 1560, which passed an act establishing the Reformed faith in Scotland. A trial took place, December, 1576, (as above,) in consequence of a feudal war between the Montgomeries of Scotston, who lived only about a mile from Hessilhead Castle, and the family of Hessilhead, in which Gabriel Montgomerie, of the Scotston family, was slain by some adherents of the other. The quarrel may have originated from the tocher of the mother of Scotston, who was a daughter of Hessilhead's grandfather, "Old Hugh," having been unpaid, at least for a long period, which appears by the confirmation of old Hugh's last will in 1564.

He married a daughter of Robert, fourth Lord Boyd, as appears from the will of her brother Robert Boyd of Badenheath, who died in 1611. A sister of hers was wife of Hugh, the fourth Earl of Eglinton. He left

• I. Robert, his heir; and
• II. Jean, who married Sir William Mure of Rowallan.

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Robert Montgomerie of Hessilhead, was retoured heir to his father, September 25, 1602. He married Margaret, daughter of Robert Wallace of Dundon