Alfred O S Boyd

[davelna]

Thankyou Carol.

Are you looking for Ryrie in Caithness?

[speleobat2]

No, as far as I know all of my family was centered around Aberdeen.

Carol

[WilmaM]

Have you also checked who married his parents or who christened him [minister of local parish church]
or the local doctor .

Wonder if our Newspaper guys could find out if Oakley or Stockely were prominent int he news around that time?

[Currie]

I had a bit of a look around the newspapers but nothing jumped out at me.

Alfred O S Boyd was born in Glasgow, not long after WW1, and perhaps the names of Oakley and Stockley came from deceased soldiers who the family had known.

The Scottish National War Memorial has only one WW1 death with surname Stockley, and he's from Glasgow. Private George Stockley, 29038, The Royal Scots Fusiliers, KIA 24 April, 1917. https://www.snwm.org/content/roll-searc ... rofdeath=0

For Oakley the SNWM has 16 names, about ten of which are WW1, and about half of those are Canadians. (But probably born Scotland). Some could be English conscripted into Scottish regiments. https://www.snwm.org/content/roll-searc ... rofdeath=0

I can't see any where a link to Glasgow is mentioned, The George Oakley in the Royal Naval Division was from Dundee.

If you want to follow this up maybe you could check the Boyd family in the 1911 census to see if any Stockley or Oakley families lived nearby.

Alan

[AndrewP]

There's an interesting 1919 marriage in Glasgow of Alfred Stockley to Margaret McCann (widow; ms. McInally). Alfred Stockley's mother's maiden surname was Oakley.

On looking at that marriage certificate, and the 1914 certificate you mentioned earlier, Margaret and Catherine were sisters.

So, it looks like his names were from his uncle (by marriage), Albert Stockley, and Uncle Albert's mother, Louisa Stockley (ms. Oakley).

All the best,

AndrewP

[WilmaM]

Well done Andrew =D>

[davelna]

AndrewP,

Thankyou for the information. Makes things a little clearer however, I am a little confused. The marriage certificate I have states Alfred`s mother as Catherine Murray McInally daughter of Marrion Murray.

Am I missing something?

[AndrewP]

1914 certificate:

• John Campbell Boyd, Tilelayers Labourer (Bachelor)
  parents: John Boyd, Ship Carpenter (deceased) and Catherine Boyd (ms. Campbell)
• Catherine Murray McInally, Kitchen Maid (spinster)
  parents: James McInally, Cab Driver (deceased) and Marion McInally (ms Murray, deceased)

1919 certificate:

• Alfred Stockley, Coal Miner (Bachelor)
  parents: Thomas Stockley, Coal Miner and Louisa Stockley (ms. Oakley)
• Margaret McCann, Munition Worker (widow)
  parents: James McInally, Cab Driver (deceased) and Marion McInally (ms Murray, deceased)
  One of the witnesses was Catherine Boyd.

So the parents of Catherine and Margaret show as the same couple, thus they were sisters; and Alfred O S Boyd was the son, born in 1923, of the couple married in 1914.

Margaret's first marriage, to Joseph McCann, can be found in Glasgow in 1915. On that certificate, Margaret is listed with a middle name: Margaret Younger McInally, Confectionery Worker (spinster), with parents as given above on her 1919 marriage certificate. Younger was her maternal grandmother's maiden surname (can be found on her mother's death certificate of 1913).

All the best,

AndrewP

[davelna]

Andrew,

Thank you for all your help.

[Agog]

I've only just come across this site. AOS Boyd wad my uncle who I never met as he was killed in 1945. His mother, Catherine, was my maternal grandmother.