Driver Evan 37556 Boyd Royal Field Artillery

[neilston]

Hi Folks

I am looking for a wee bit of help from the forum stalwarts on the above man.

 

I strongly suspect Driver Evan Boyd  37556   Royal Field Artillery  Is a  Soldier -born Neilston East Renfrewshire and has been wrongly transcribed In  National records.

The Ancestry records list him on The Soldiers that died in the Great War"  as being Barrhead Renfrewshire born age 27.

 

Name: Evan Boyd
Age: 27
Birth Date: abt 1891
Death Date: 21 Mar 1918
Cemetery: Pozieres Memorial
Burial Country: France
Father: William Boyd
Mother: Lavinia Boyd
Regiment: Royal Field Artillery
Regimental Number: 37556
Region or Memorial: France.

These records are wrong and the one above belongs to a Frank Boyd of the Irish Regiment who also died 21st /3/18

 

I Suspect my man 

Evan Boyd was born 12noon 1st July 1881 at Kirktonfield Neilston East Renfrewshire  to Parents James and Sarah (Nee McDermid) Boyd, they lived at Kirktonfield cottage Neilston.
Household Members: 
James Boyd 
Sarah Boyd 
Evan Boyd 
Robert Boyd

By 1901 Evan was a 19 Year old Ploughman living at Patison Farm Neilston Renfrewshire with the Henderson's (farmers)
6th Nov 1915 Evan married Catherine Clark at Glasgow, Soldiers effects have  37556 Evan Boyd -With wife Catherine 

 

 

Can anyone please help ?

 

Kind Regards 

 

Matt 

[IPT]

There's also a card for 37556 "R" Boyd, RFA.

 

Wife - Mrs E Boyd, applies for her late husband's medals. Address - c/o ?? of Anderson, Grain Merchant, Quarry Lane, Irvine - https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interactive/1262/30850_A000188-01596?pid=3124898&backurl=https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc%3Dewy537%26_phstart%3DsuccessSource%26usePUBJs%3Dtrue%26indiv%3D1%26qh%3Dmp6m%2Bc1sOEBny1snUdF%2B0w%3D%3D%26db%3DMedalRolls%26gss%3Dangs-d%26new%3D1%26rank%3D1%26gsfn%3DR%26gsfn_x%3D1%26gsln%3Dboyd%26gsln_x%3D1%26gskw%3D%22artillery%22%26gskw_x%3D1%26MSAV%3D1%26uidh%3Didw%26pcat%3D39%26fh%3D4%26h%3D3124898%26recoff%3D9%2010%26ml_rpos%3D5&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=ewy537&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true

 

 

[ss002d6252]

What record set did you get this from ?:

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Name: Evan Boyd
Age: 27
Birth Date: abt 1891
Death Date: 21 Mar 1918
Cemetery: Pozieres Memorial
Burial Country: France
Father: William Boyd
Mother: Lavinia Boyd
Regiment: Royal Field Artillery
Regimental Number: 37556
Region or Memorial: France.

Craig

Edited 26 June , 2018 by ss002d6252

[IPT]

Here's Evan getting in a scrape;

 

13th December 1894 - Southern Reporter

 

"At a J. P. Court at Barrhead on Saturday Evan Boyd, Neilston, aged thirteen, was charged with playing truant from school, and was ordered to be sent to the R. C. Industrial School in Abercromby Street, Glasgow, and kept there till attained the age sixteen."

[neilston]

12 minutes ago, ss002d6252 said:

What record set did you get this from ?:

Craig

Craig 

This is from Ancestry - supposed to be from Soldiers that died in the Great War.

 

Matt 

 

[ss002d6252]

2 minutes ago, neilston said:

Craig 

This is from Ancestry - supposed to be from Soldiers that died in the Great War.

 

Matt 

 

SDGW doesn't show details such as parents, age or birth date so it can only be SDGW records combined with another record set.

Craig

[ss002d6252]

SDGW on Find My Past shows Frank Boyd was born at Stradbally, Queen's County.
SDGW on Find My Past shows Evan Boyd was born at Barrhead, Renfrew.

 

Craig

[neilston]

6 minutes ago, ss002d6252 said:

SDGW doesn't show details such as parents, age or birth date so it can only be SDGW records combined with another record set.

Craig

Evan Boyd

 in the UK, Commonwealth War Graves, 1914-1921 and 1939-1947

 

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Name:	Evan Boyd
Age:	27
Birth Date:	abt 1891
Death Date:	21 Mar 1918
Cemetery:	Pozieres Memorial
Burial Country:	France
Father:	William Boyd
Mother:	Lavinia Boyd
Regiment:	Royal Field Artillery
Regimental Number:	377556
Region or Memorial:	France
Other Records:	Search for 'Evan Boyd' in other WWI collections

Just now, neilston said:

Evan Boyd

 in the UK, Commonwealth War Graves, 1914-1921 and 1939-1947

 

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• Add Alternative Information
• Report issue

Name:	Evan Boyd
Age:	27
Birth Date:	abt 1891
Death Date:	21 Mar 1918
Cemetery:	Pozieres Memorial
Burial Country:	France
Father:	William Boyd
Mother:	Lavinia Boyd
Regiment:	Royal Field Artillery
Regimental Number:	377556
Region or Memorial:	France
Other Records:	Search for 'Evan Boyd' in other WWI collections

 

Sorry Folks

it is the Cwgc record ancestry has miss read 

 

Matt 

 

[ss002d6252]

No problem at all.

Have you looked at the original burial return for the CWGC records for each man to see what they say ?

Craig

[neilston]

3 minutes ago, ss002d6252 said:

No problem at all.

Have you looked at the original burial return for the CWGC records for each man to see what they say ?

Craig

Father:	William Boyd
Mother:	Lavinia Boyd
Regiment:	Royal Field Artillery.     these are Frank Boyd's parents , I think Ancestry has wrongly listed the CWGC records on their site    Cheers Matt

[Dai Bach y Sowldiwr]

In the CWGC database, Evan Boyd 37556 has no parents listed.

Looks like another Ancestry error, they've mis attributed Frank Boyd's details to Evan, stating that that is the entry in the CWGC database.

Edited 26 June , 2018 by Dai Bach y Sowldiwr

[neilston]

1 hour ago, IPT said:

Here's Evan getting in a scrape;

 

13th December 1894 - Southern Reporter

 

"At a J. P. Court at Barrhead on Saturday Evan Boyd, Neilston, aged thirteen, was charged with playing truant from school, and was ordered to be sent to the R. C. Industrial School in Abercromby Street, Glasgow, and kept there till attained the age sixteen."

Bloody Hell 3 years ! for skipping school