When Laura Jowett Boyes was born on 8 April 1898, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, her father, Walter Jowett Boyes, was 30 and her mother, Emma Marie Quada, was 28. She married Herbert Alfred Lehrman on 28 November 1925, in Cook, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Westchester Township, Porter, Indiana, United States in 1940. She died on 1 June 1963, at the age of 65.
English (mainly Yorkshire) and Irish: variant of Boy , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
English and Scottish: variant of Boyce .
In some cases possibly also an Americanized form of French Bois .
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