Tombstone Inscriptions in Ayrshire
Irvine Old Parish Graveyard
BOYD
Erected / by / WILLIAM BOYD
/ in memory
of his Father / HUGH BOYD
who died 18th
May 1819 aged 74 years / ELSPA
GIFFEN,
his Mother died June 1848
aged 72 / HUGH,
his Brother died in Greenock
26th Jan 1846
aged 38 / MARY WYLLIE, his
Wife died
21st Oct 1855 aged 62 / and
the above
WILLIAM BOYD, died 8th July
1866 aged
72 / also his Children viz.
/ JOHN, died 25th
Oct 1824, aged 2 weeks / JANET,
died 28th
Sep. 1839, aged 2 years /
AGNES, died 28th
Jan 1851, aged 15 / JANET,
Wife of
JOSEPH HOWIE, Slater, Inverkip
/ died
30th May 1871 aged 31. / Also
AGNES
BOYD, Relict of JAMES YOUNG
late /
Farmer over Broomlands, died
29th May
1877 aged 84 / Also GEORGE
BOYD his
Brother / died 22nd June 1889
aged 85
(Renewed by HUGH BOYD his
eldest Son in
1872)
Erected in memory of / ROBERT
BOYD late
Shipmaster in Irvine / who
died in 1766 aged
78 years / and of ELIZABETH
ANDERSON
his Spouse / who died in 1786
aged 81 years
/ Also MARY BOYD their Daughter
/ who
died the 15th Novr. 1804 aged
66 years
Dreghorn
Parish Church Graveyard,
Ayrshire, Scotland
Erected by JOHN BOYD / to
the memory of
his Mother / AGNES STEWART
/ who died
3rd Sept. 1790 aged 52 years.
/ Also of /
HUGH BOYD. His Father / who
died 18th
May 1812 aged 71 years / and
is interred at
Irvine. / Also of / JAMES.
His Brother and
MARGARET. His Sister / interred
at Kilbride.
/ Renewed by JAMES DUNLOP
Esq. M.R.C.V.S./ Downpatrick
/ Ireland. /
Erected / by / JOHN DUNLOP
Innkeeper
Dreghorn / and AGNES BOYD
his Wife / in
memory of their Son HUGH /
who died 4th
Augt. 1845 aged 12 years.
/ Also the above
AGNES BOYD / who died on 21st
Dec 1872
aged 64 years. / And the above
JOHN
DUNLOP / who died 15th April
1883 in his
79 year. / Also their Daughter
AGNES
BOYD DUNLOP / Wife of FREDERICK
ALEXANDER / who died 17th
June 1922
aged 83 years.
Irvine, Ayrshire Old Parish Graveyard
BOYD
Also the above ROBERT BOYD
who / died
9th Sept. 1812 / aged 83 years
(rest of
inscription eroded away)
In memory / of / THOMAS BOYD
---st
--Irvine / who died 6th April
1801 aged 68
years / and BARBRA ---ING
his Spouse /
who died 22nd July 1809 aged
72 years /
also --- Sons / JOHN, who
--- Jan --- 1793 /
aged 17 years and DAVIE who
died in
infancy
1877 / erected / by / SAMUEL
BOYD / in
memory of his Brothers / ROBERT
BOYD /
died 28th Jany, 1870, aged
80 years /
JAMES BOYD / died 18th Decr.
1874, aged
82 years / also ELIZABETH
GRAY, Relict
of the about / JAMES BOYD
died 10th Oct.
1882, aged 90 years / beloved
ones farewell
/ SUSAN BOYD, Relict of THOMAS
CAMPBELL / died 8th July 1895,
in her 80th
year.