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BOYD, William 4th Earl of Kilmarnock, Jacobite 1745
(1705-1746) |
BOYD, William 4th Earl of Kilmarnock, Jacobite 1745 1 2 3
Cause of his death was execution.1 User ID: A525. Noted events in his life were: 1. Attainted: for participation in 1745 uprising, 1746, Scotland. William married Anne LIVINGSTON, daughter of James LIVINGSTON 5th Earl of Linlithgow, Jacobite 1715 and Margaret HAY, on 15 June 1724.1 2 (Anne LIVINGSTON was born in January 1709 2, baptised on 18 January 1709 in Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland 2 and died in September 1747 in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland 1 2.) Marriage Notes: "Anne Livingstone obtained a lease of her father's forfeited estate for fifty-nine years from 1721, at a rent of £872, 15s. per annum, and died at Kilmarnock 14 September 1747. She was married, 15 June 1724, to William, fourth Earl of Kilmarnock, who, for the active part he took in the Jacobite rising of 1745, was attainted of high treason, taken prisoner at Culloden, and executed on Tower Hill 18 August 1746. She had, with other issue : 1. James, Lord Boyd" |
1 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 3 (1906).
2 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 5 (1908).
3 GRO Scotland, OPR Index of Births and Baptisms.
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