WALKER BOYLE connections

So from my Granny Quilietti, Jane Walker Boyle backwards with connected families

LUKE BOYLE and BETSY McLACHLAN third great grandparents

Luke Boyle and Betsy McLachlan or McLauchlan. They married on the3rd December 1820. Luke’s family were from County Tyrone in Ireland. Betsy was born in Cork in 1793. The couple had at least six children.
James, Jane, Henry, Ann, Francis and Luke.
[James being our direct line]

JAMES BOYLE 1823-1894 and JEAN or JANE WALKER 1821-1874 – 2nd great grandparents

James Boyle was born on July 14th 1823 and baptised on September 6th. Godparent or Sponsor was Margaret McLaughlin [sister] of Jean.

Fourth from top of page Jane, lawful daughter of James Walker and Mary Pinkerton.
Born 11th November 1821 in Irvine in Ayrshire

James Boyle and Jean Walker Banns called on 16th June

James Boyle’s death in 1894 in Shotts in Lanark. James Muir, his son in law, was informant

When Jane died in 1874 it was at Storringshaw Pit in Shotts in Lanarkshire. This was an Iron Work Pit. There were mining homes there and they houses took on the name of the Pit.
No cause of death. James Boyle signs with his x mark.

This is the death of their youngest son Luke Boyle 1832-1880. He had hit bad times and died in the Glasgow Poorhouse and unmarried.

Jane or Jean Walker’s parents and siblings

This line of the family it must be said have spread their wings and landed really in many corners of the globe.

James Walker 1779-1856 and Mary Pinkerton 1780-1851 third great grandparents

James Walker senior was born in 1779 in Abbey, Paisley in Renfrewshire. [he is my third great grandfather]. He married Mary Pinkerton and they were from Irvine in Ayrshire.

What happened to the children James Walker and Mary Pinkerton

ELISABETH WALKER was the eldest child. Born 18th April 1801 in Irvine. She married William Reid 1792-1851. They had a large family who mostly stayed in Ayrshire. But one son David Reid born 1825-1870 married Martha Brown 1827-1871 whose family were also from Ayrshire, and the family set off for New South Wales where their descendants still live today.

Descendants of David Reid and Martha Brown. Betsy Reid [grandmother] with her daughter Margaret Parks Parker

Margaret Harris or Stebbing’s tree. You can see where our families meet up with the Walker and Pinkertons from Ayrshire. We met Margaret in 2016 in Edinburgh when she was over searching for clues. Margaret is my fourth cousin x 1 removed.

This is cousin Karen Dobbie’s tree. AGAIN you can clearly see where both the Boyle line and the Walker Pinkerton lines merge our families. Karen is my third cousin x 1 removed.

Karen 2018 in Edinburgh. She comes to Scotland usually each year to research bit by bit her Scottish ancestry, as well as visiting down south to research her English side

MARY or MARION WALKER 1803-1882 and SAMUEL NIVEN

Mary married Samuel Niven 1793-1885 who was a shoemaker by trade. They married on 30th August 1817 in Lochwinnoch where he had a business in the High Street there. The 1841 Scottish census shows Samuel residing in the High Street in Lochwinnoch. 1851 shows the family through in Glasgow at 26 Thistle Street, The Gorbals. Three of his children were employed in the silk factory nearby. By 1861 he and his wife Mary or Marion as she was known were at the same address, with son Hugh now age 22 who was his assistant. 1881 shows Marion and Hugh now at No 82 High Street in Lochwinnoch. Neither of them were in the 1891 census.

Lochwinnoch today..
They had eleven children and two William and Mary emigrated.

SON WILLIAM NIVEN married ANNA married surname unknown and they moved to Canada, then down to New York. He was also a shoemaker

Son William 1820-1907 emigrated at first to Canada where three of his children were born then down to Michigan then to New York where he had other children. William as you can see in the 1870 census was also a shoemaker. The 1880 census shows the family working with many more shoemakers at an address in New York

Mary Niven 1831-1899 moved to Victoria Australia with her husband George Tyler 1821-1893.

MARGARET WALKER 1805-1875 and JOHN SIMPSON 1794

Margaret’s birth in May 1805. She married John Simpson on 23rd May 1824 in Irvine in Ayrshire. They also had a large family. this line is still being researched

James Walker 1809-1865. He married Jean Stewart in 1833.

James worked at first in the coal mines then in the Iron Mines in Dalry in Ayrshire. Their address in 1861 was Kirk Close in Irvine in Ayrshire. James died in 1865 leaving at least four children William, James, John and Jane. Line still being researched

ROBERT WALKER 1811- married Mary Kirkwood 1811.

Robert married Mary Kirkwood in Beith, Ayrshire on 29th March 1834. Having worked in the Coal Mines for his whole life the couple remained there and all there children were all born in the district. Two of their daughters however moved to Pennyslvania in the USA.

Mary Waddel Walker Cowan w. son, James’ family 1915:
Back, L. to R. Stepfather, Thomas Cowan, James (Walker) Cowan, his wife, Margaret Whitfield Cowan. Front,L.to R. Annie Warren (seated,) Mary Jane, Mary W. Walker Cowan holding Thomas Whitfield Cowan, James Cowan

DAVID WALKER 1813-1878. He married Mary Ann Gold or Marion Gold 1814-1867.

They married on 7 January 1837 in Kilmaurs in Ayrshire. In 1861 the family were living at an address Dykemuir, Riccarton in Ayrshire. He worked like his brothers as a Collier in the coal-mines. They had 6 children. David’s first marriage was to Margaret Clerk. They had one daughter Mary Pinkerton Walker 1934. Margaret died shortly after giving birth.

CATHERINE or KATE WALKER 1816-1884. She married Allan Dunsmore 1813-1871.

Kate married Allan Dunsmore on 7th February 1835 in Riccarton in Ayrshire. Allan also worked in the Mines. They had 11 children. Their address given in 1871 as North Street, Dalry, Ayrshire.