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Paternal Family Tree: Boyd
Spencer Boyd 13th of Penkill was born to Spencer Boyd 12th of Penkill and Margaret Losh.
Around 1826 [his father] Spencer Boyd 12th of Penkill died. His son Spencer succeeded 13th Lord Penkill.
In 1858 [his mother] Margaret Losh died. Her daughter [his sister] Alice Boyd 14th of Penkill (age 33), now having lost both parents, went to live with her maternal grandfather [his grandfather] William Losh in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland [Map].
After 1859 [his sister] Alice Boyd 14th of Penkill (age 34) moved back to Penkill Castle to live with her brother Spencer Boyd 13th of Penkill.
In or before 1865. William Bell Scott (age 53). Portrait of Spencer Boyd 13th of Penkill.
In 1865 Spencer Boyd 13th of Penkill died unmarried. His sister [his sister] Alice (age 40) succeeded 14th Lord Penkill.
Letters of Christina Rossetti. 30 Torrington Square-W.C., Saturday 28th [?February 1885]
My dear [his sister] Alice (age 60),
My Mother & I pay you affectionate thanks-to you & to Mrs Scott-for offering us this time a friendly pleasure we can accept. With your leave we hope to be with you at 2 o'clock next Thursday, & shall be happy to see the Miss Courtneys again, & to look forward to a late view of Mr Scott. Pray observe that your memoria technica has enabled me to spell your sisters' names correctly.1 It is happy for me that you did not select Thursday in this week, as I am struggling thro' an amorphous phase thanks to a gathering in my nose! but by next Thursday I trust I may be presentable to indulgent eyes. My dearest Mother's health continues, I am thankful to say, good, & she takes her little walks despite various winds of the compass.
With my Aunt's remembrances
Always your affectionate
Christina G. Rossetti (age 54)
Note 1. Actually AB's half sisters, born to her mother [his mother] Margaret Losh Boyd who married Henry Courtney after her first husband's death. AB's brother, Spencer Boyd, thirteenth laird of Penkill Castle, left the property to Alice at his death in 1865 but with the proviso that if she died without an heir it would pass to one of his mother's remaining children. Thus, when AB died on 11 April 1897, Penkill and the title were inherited by [his half-brother] Eleanor Margaret Courtney Boyd (fifteenth laird), the eldest of the half sisters mentioned in this letter.
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Kings Wessex: Great x 21 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 17 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 23 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 18 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings England: Great x 16 Grand Son of King John of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 20 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 28 Grand Son of Louis "Pious" King Aquitaine I King Franks
Kings France: Great x 21 Grand Son of Robert "Pious" II King France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 26 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 4 Grandfather: Reverend Robert Boyd 10 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Boyd of Trochrig 11 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: James Boyd 7th of Trochrig, 8th of Penkill 12 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Spencer Boyd 9th of Penkill 13 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
GrandFather: Spencer Boyd 11th of Penkill 14 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Father: Spencer Boyd 12th of Penkill 15 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Spencer Boyd 13th of Penkill 16 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
GrandFather: William Losh
Mother: Margaret Losh