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Edward BOYD

Children	Self + Spouses	Parents	Grandparents	Greatgrandparents
Robert George BOYD (1865 - 1929)	Edward BOYD + Mary Anne MCMULLEN

+. Mary Anne MCMULLEN

Near Relatives of Edward BOYD
Relationship	Person	Born	Birth Place	Died	Death Place	Age
Self	Edward BOYD
Spouse/Partner	Mary Anne MCMULLEN
Son	Robert George BOYD	1865	'Havilah Station', Bowen, Queensland, Australia	1929	Collinsville, Queensland, Australia	64
Daughter in Law	Elizabeth Mary Ann MORRIS	1869	Bowen, Queensland, Australia	1895	Bowen, Queensland, Australia	26
Daughter in Law	Christina (Elvina) MEIZNER	1882	Bowen, Queensland, Australia	1971	Mackay, Queensland, Australia	89
Grandson	Robert George (Mick) BOYD	1892	Bowen, Queensland, Australia	1969	Proserpine, Queensland, Australia	77
Granddaughter	Cecilia Agnes BOYD	1894	Queensland, Australia	1923	Queensland, Australia	29
Grandson	James Edward BOYD	1905	Bowen, Queensland, Australia	1953	Bowen, Queensland, Australia	48
Granddaughter	Mary Agnes BOYD	1908	Bowen, Queensland, Australia	abt 1995	Bowen, Queensland, Australia	87

Events in Edward BOYD's life
Date	Age	Event	Place	Notes	Src
1865		Birth of son Robert George BOYD	'Havilah Station', Bowen, Queensland, Australia	Burial
1929		Death of son Robert George BOYD (aged 64)	Collinsville, Queensland, Australia	Note 1	60

Note 1: Burial Name: Robert Boyd Death Date: 20 Sep 1929 Death Place: Queensland Father's name: Edward Boyd Mother's name: Mary Anne McMullen Registration Year: 1929 Registration Place: Queensland Registration Number: 002430 Page Number: 169 Bowen Independent 24 Sept 1929 Passing of “Bobby” Boyd. There passed away at the Kennedy Hospital last Saturday morning an old resident of the Bowen district in the person of Robert (“Bobby.”) George Boyd. Born at Havilah station in 1865, the deceased’s parents were amongst some of the first to settle in this dis trict, and for a time they kept a hotel on the banks of the Bogie, in the vicin ity ,of Eton Vale station. Later on they moved to what was known as the “One Mile’, and bred cattle and horses. Here they died and were buried. , When 15 years of age the late Robert Boyd was employed on Eton Vale, and later on worked at Mt. Abbott, Glenore and Salisbury Plains. At one period of his early career he and the late Jimmy Spooner ventured further North, and for a time the former was employed at Wrotham Park, and station in the vicinity of the Coen River.' He also went on the roads for a time with teams owned by the late James Andrews, and their destitution was often as far west as Bowen Downs Station. He excelled at all kinds of station work, such as camp drafting, roughriding and work ing cattle in yards. Those were the days when, as one of our bush bards put it, “You had to stick like plaster, and the stockyard rails fell down.” And Bobby Boyd could stick to the roughest:horse. It is believed that he was only thrown, out of a saddle on three occasions. When he first went to work at Eton Vale, horses were not broken, in until they were nine or ten years of age, and these were the sort of animals deceased had to handle from boyhood. At various times he rode against some fine horsemen, amongst them being Dave Black and Bob Black,, an aboriginal rider: who chiefly worked at Strathmore.,When the name of Bobby Boyd is mentioned amongst those who knew him out where the cattle graze, many a story will be told of the habits and customs of the aborigines. When he was four years of age the blacks of the Bundarra tribe, whose hunting grounds were about our pastoral country, used to take him away from home for weeks at a time, and they treated him as one of their own children, with the result that they taught him their language and he became an expert bushman. These aborigines admitted he could speak their language better than themselves, and he was so keen sighted that he could find his way any where in the bush on the darkest night. In after years, he became so popular with the blacks that they called him "The White Mari” (blackfellow). The deceased was twice married, and there were four children from these unions - daughter, Mrs. Percy Anderson, has since died, but those still living and to whom we extend our sympathy are Robert George Boyd, of the 14 mile Collinsville line, James Boyd, of Proserpine, and Mrs. George Luxford, of Merinda.

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from death reg of son

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