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Boyett Family Surname History

NOTE Aug 2021: Advanced BigY YDNA SNP testing is ongoing for Boyt/Boyett/Boyatt (and other spellings) lines in the US and UK. To date The groups YDNA show that they had common male ancestors in the distant past. The majority of the Boyt surnames in England are in Dorset and the majority of the Boyt lines in the US are from Nansemond, however the exact linage between the US and UK is unknown.

Domesday Book: 1086 AD
The Domesday Book was commissioned in December 1085 by William the Conqueror, who invaded England in 1066. The first draft was completed in August 1086 and contained records for 13,418 settlements in the English counties south of the Rivers Ribble and Tees (the border with Scotland at the time). Go here for the Domesday Map: http://www.pbase.com/daveb/image/36505736 The name Bote is listed in Cheshire, the name Boyatt is listed in the Eastleigh settlement of Hampshire and the name Boviete is listed in the Manesbrige Hundred of Hantescire.

Boyatt: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D7300762

Manor of Boyatt: 1206 AD
The Manor of Boyatt in Otterbourne Parish:
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/hants/vol3/pp440-444#h3-0003
was held by Godric in the reign of Edward the Confessor, but is listed in the Domesday Book as held by Herbrand from the king. In the twelfth century Boyatt was granted to Waverley Abbey by Richard 1, and the grant was confirmed by King John in 1206. The manor continued in the possession of Waverley Abbey until the Dissolution of the Mona steries in the sixteenth century: Boyatt was given to Sir William Fitzwilliam in 1537. He was also an Admiral and in 1539 he con ducted Anne of Cleves to England. The Manor of Boyatt was conveyed to Gilbert Welles in 1566 and remained in part with the recusant family of Bambridge until the end of the eighteenth cen tury.

Scotland: 1296 AD
This appears to be the first known Boyt name in Scotland and may have resulted in a variant name for the BOYD surname. This could support some of the close DNA results from the Boyd families. The use of surnames was just becoming of age and was not always handed down to the next generation.

NAME ON MAP: BOYT (in the old county of) Ayrshire DATE: 1296 MEANING: probably from GOIDELIC buidhe `yellow', the nickname of the blond-haired Simon, nephew of the first High Steward of Scotland, Walter Fitzalan. A derivation from the island of Bute has also been suggested. The family supported Robert the Bruce, Duncan Boyd being hanged by the English in 1306 and Sir Robert de Boyt fighting at Bannockburn. Click here for the History of Scotland:
Source: http://www.gwp.enta.net/scothist.htm

Scotland Ragman Rolls: 1296 AD http://www.rampantscotland.com/ragman/
One of the signatures on the Ragman Roll of 1296 was Robert Boyt. In 1291, there were a number of claimants to the Scottish throne and King Edward I of England "volunteered" to hear their case and decide who had the most valid claim. Those involved met Edward at Norham on Tweed in 1291. Edward insisted on all the nobles signing an oath of loyalty to him. Some declined but many signed what was the first (and smaller) of the "Ragman Rolls"

When Balliol began to resist the demands of Edward in 1296, the English King over-ran Berwick-upon-Tweed and defeated the Scots at the Battle of Dunbar. He then marched across Scotland as far as the Moray Firth, capturing castles and removing such precious items as the Stone of Destiny, the Scottish crown and huge archives of Scotland's national records.

On 28 August, 1296, Edward held a "parliament" at Berwick. All the prominent Scottish landowners, churchmen and burgesses were summoned to swear allegiance to Edward and sign the parchments and affix their seals, many of which had ribbons attached. In addition to such prominent people as Robert Bruce, 6th Lord of Annandale, his son, the 2nd Earl of Carrick and William Wallace's uncle, Sir Reginald de Crauford, 2,000 signatures were inscribed, making it a most valuable document for future researchers.

It is suggested that the term "Ragman Rolls" derived from the ribbons attached to the seals on the parchments but the name may also have been derived from an earlier record compiled for the purposes of Papal taxation by a man called Ragimunde, whose name was corrupted to Ragman.

The list of names is based on those published by the "Bannatyne Club" in Edinburgh in 1834.

England: Land Grant Record 1561 AD
Sir Richard Boyte, Knight & Clement Boyt
This record was located in the Harvard Law Library, Deed Number 623
https://tinyurl.com/4js8vhv5
Title : Grant, 1561 Dec. 1.
Published : 4 Elizabeth I.

Locations/Orders : Availability
Location : Law School MSS Deeds 623 [Consult Special Collections] Holdings Availability

Description : 1 item : vellum ; 17.5 x 30 cm.
Summary : Grant by Martin Harlakinden of Grey’s Inn in the county of Middlesex, gentleman, to William Playfer of London, gentleman, of a moiety of 2 messuages and 2 gardens and a ferry at Smalyd, with their appurtenances, lying in the parishes of Tenterden and Wittresham in the county of Kent, one messuage and garden bounded by the king’s highway in Smallyd aforesaid to the east, the ferry of Smallid to the south, the land of the heirs of John Goler to the west and north; the other messuage and garden bounded by the land of John Mane, esq., to the east, the land of John Fygg and John Mane to the south, the king’s highway to the west, and the land of the heirs of William Hyllier to the north. With appointment of William Harlakinden and Stephen Forde his attorneys to deliver seisin. With a note on the dorse in English and list of witnesses.
Notes : Signed by: Martin Harlakynden.
Witnesses (endorsed): Richard Boyte, knight, Clement Boyt.; other names illegible.
With 1 seal (1.2 cm.) of red wax, bearing a device: a flower.
Subject : Gray’s Inn.
Subject : Deeds -- England -- Kent.
Deeds -- England -- Tenterden.
Deeds -- England -- Wittersham.
Subject : Kent (England) -- Charters, grants, privileges.
Tenterden (England) -- Charters, grants, privileges.
Wittersham (England) -- Charters, grants, privileges.
Smallhythe (England)
Form/Genre : Deeds.
Authors : Harlakinden, Martin, fl. 16th century.
Playfer, William, fl. 16th century.
Goler, John, fl. 16th century.
Mane, John, fl. 16th century.
Fygg, John, fl. 16th century.
Hyllier, William, fl. 16th century.
Harlankinden, William, fl. 16th century.
Forde, Stephen, fl. 16th century.
Boyt, Clement, fl. 16th century.
Boyt, Richard, Sir, fl. 16th century.
HOLLIS Number : 005951978


Isle of Wright & Nansemond Co. VA–1704
Tax Rolls http://www.vagenweb.org/newkent/1704va.txt
Thomas Boyt

Map of Nansemond Co. VA http://www.pbase.com/daveb/image/36260785/original
Land Deeds (See Land Records Page for images and photos)

South Part of County - Sumerton
Thomas Boyle, 1697 for 129 acres on the south side of the Back Swamp of Sumerton

South Part of County – Upper Parish
Edward Boyt, 1717 for 150 acres beginning at a stooping hickory by the Long Branch Side, Upper Parish

Thomas Boyd Jr, 1717 Upper Parish
William Boyt, 1743 for 261 acres up Keans Branch adjoining John Keaton, Henry Jernagan, Thomas Boyt and George Jernagan, Upper Parish

Boyett DNA Family Surname Project: https://pbase.com/daveb/boyett


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Connie Manroe 10-Jul-2008 15:09
I am looking for Emily Boyett.She is my gr. gr. gr. gr.grandmother, she was married to Joseph Boyett and they a had a daughter Charlotte Coleman Boyett .Charlotte Boyett was married to William Bonepart Harmond and they had a daughter named Marther (Mattie) Harmond, she married Archibald Williams and they had a daughter named Ninnia Sherrod Williams that married Tom R. Tice. They had a daughter named Essie Coleman Tice who was my grandmother. In a Bible I found a note that said that Matties grandmother was a full blood Sious indian. If you have any information to proof of her being an indian or any other information I would be greatful.
Connie Manroe