Alexander Boyd (1860 - 1951)

Born 1860 in Ardara, County Donegal, Ireland

Husband of Lucy Jane (Simons) Boyd — married 1884 in New Zealand

Descendants

Died 30 Mar 1951 at about age 91 in Hinds, Canterbury, New Zealand

Biography

Alexander was born in 1860.

He married Lucy Jane Simons in 1884.^[1] The children of Sandy and Lucy were:

1. Catherine Elizabeth (Boyd)
2. Florence Annie (Chisnall)
3. Daisy May
4. Lucy Gertrude
5. Amy Alice (Robinson)
6. Henry Richard
7. Arthur Alexander
8. Dorothy Lilian (Hynam)^[2]
9. Thomas George^[3]

He passed away in 1951.^[4] He is buried in Kaikõura Cemetery.^[5]

The death occurred on Friday of an early Kaikoura settler, Mr Alexander (‘‘Sandy") Boyd, in his ninetyfirst year. Mr Boyd had lived at Kaikoura since leaving Northern Ireland 71 years ago. Two brothers, Mr James Boyd, aged 93 years, who was prominent in local body affairs in the Kaikoura district from 1902? to 1935?, and Mr David Boyd aged 86 are still living in Kaikoura. Born at Ardara, County Donegal, in 1860, Mr Boyd sailed for New Zealand in the Pleiades^[6], which was under the command of Captain Setton from the East India docks, Devon, and arrived at Lyttelton on January 26th 1880. He transhipped by the Jane Douglas, coastal trader vessel for Kaikoura, where he took up residence on Postman’s road. Mr Boyd worked at ditching and road-making on the suburban flats, which were nearly all swamp then, and as a teamster for the late Mr G. F. Bullen at "The Elms" before taking up a 30-acre block known as "Rosedale" on Schoolhouse road, where he had resided until recently. He was one of the the suppliers and a director of the Kaikoura Co-operative Dairy Company in 1904?...... Mr Boyd married in 1884 Miss Lucy Jane Simons, daughter of Mr Richard Henry Simons of London. Mrs Boyd died in 1944, soon after the celebration of their diamond wedding anniversary. Of the family of three sons and six daughters only two - Mr George Boyd of Mosgiel and Mrs C Chisnall of Hinds - are living. Twin sons, Henry Richard and Arthur Alexander, lost their lives in the First World War. The other daughters were Mrs J. D. Boyd, Mrs A Hynam and Mrs J. Robinson; and Misses Lucy and Daisy Boyd.....^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ New Zealand Births, Deaths & Marriages Online (New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs) Marriage: 1884/1266 Lucy Jane Simins(sic) and Alexander Boyd
2. ↑ New Zealand Births, Deaths & Marriages Online (New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs) Births:

   1885/2498 Boyd Catherine Elizabeth Parents: Lucy Jane and Alexander

   1886/11110 Boyd Florence Annie Lucy Jane Alexander

   1888/2699 Boyd Daisy May Lucy Jane Alexander

   1889/13308 Boyd Lucy Gertrude Lucy Jane Alexander

   1891/14601 Boyd Amy Alice Lucy Jane Alexander

   1894/17631 Boyd Henry Richard Lucy Jane Alexander

   1894/17633 Boyd Arthur Alexander Lucy Jane Alexander

   1906/10721 Boyd Dorothy Lilian Lucy Jane Alexander

3. ↑ New Zealand Births, Deaths & Marriages Online (New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs) Death: 1979/43240 Boyd Thomas George DOB: 28 February 1896
4. ↑ New Zealand Births, Deaths & Marriages Online (New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs) Death: 1951/23027 Boyd Alexander 90Y
5. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/150809204/alexander-boyd : accessed 08 July 2022), memorial page for Alexander Boyd (1860–1951), Find a Grave Memorial ID 150809204, citing Kaikoura Public Cemetery, Kaikōura, Kaikoura District, Canterbury, New Zealand ; Maintained by MystikNZ (contributor 48009964) .
6. ↑ https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~nzbound/genealogy/pleiades1880.htm
7. ↑ Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26385, 2 April 1951, Page 8

• "New Zealand, Archives New Zealand, Probate Records, 1843-1998," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KDR1-G6S : 9 March 2021), Alexander Boyd, 1951; citing , Blenheim probate files [first sequence], 1876-1972, record number 2903, Archives New Zealand, Auckland Regional Office; FamilySearch digital folder 004625491.