BOYD, William 4th Earl of Kilmarnock, Jacobite 1745 1 2 3
- Born: 12 May 1705 2
- Marriage (1): LIVINGSTON, Anne on 15 June 1724 1 2
- Died: 18 August 1746, Tower Hill, London, England 1
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"
from Scots Peerage (vol 3)
"He (William Boyd) married, 15 June 1724, Anne, daughter and heir of James (Livingston), fifth Earl of Linlithgow and fourth Earl of Callendar, by his wife Margaret, younger daughter, but in her issue (19 August 1758) sole heir of John (Hay), twelfth Earl of Erroll and Hereditary Lord High Constable. She, who materially contributed to the success of her party at Falkirk, by detaining General Hawley at Callendar House on the eve of the battle, was born in January 1709, and baptized at Falkirk on the 18th of that month, and died of grief at Kilmarnock, 16 September 1747, having survived her husband little more than a year. Her will, which contains nothing of any particular interest, was confirmed at Glasgow 5 March 1748. They had issue"
from Scots Peerage (vol 5) 1 2
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