When Margaret Boyd was born on 9 March 1742, in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland, her father, William Boyd, was 24 and her mother, Margaret Dean, was 26. She married Andrew Reid on 27 November 1761, in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters.
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Scottish: habitational name from the island of Bute in the Firth of Clyde, from Bòid (genitive case of Bòd, the Gaelic name of the island of Bute) or Bòideach, denoting a person from Bute. Alternatively, the name may denote descendants of a Gilla filius Boed, who appears in reference to Glasgow Cathedral in the early 12th century, perhaps from the Gaelic personal name Boite, of uncertain origin.
Scottish and Irish: from the Gaelic epithet buidhe ‘yellow(-haired)’. Compare Bowie .
Manx: from Mac Gille Buidhe ‘son of the yellow-haired lad’ (compare 2 above).
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