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Where did the Scottish Boyce family come from? What is the Scottish Boyce family crest and coat of arms? When did the Boyce family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Boyce family history?
The surname Boyce is a topographic surname, which was given to a person who resided near a physical feature such as a hill, stream, church, or type of tree. Habitation names form the other broad category of surnames that were derived from place-names. They were derived from pre-existing names for towns, villages, parishes, or farmsteads. Other local names are derived from the names of houses, manors, estates, regions, and entire counties. As a general rule, the greater the distance between an individual and their homeland, the larger the territory they were named after. For example, a person who only moved to another parish would be known by the name of their original village, while people who migrated to a different country were often known by the name of a region or country from which they came. The name Boyce is derived from the Old French word bois, which means tree, and indicates that the original bearer lived near a prominent tree.
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- First settlers to North America
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Spelling variations of this family name include: Boyce, Boyes, Boze, Bois, Boise, Boice, Boas, Bost, Bust, Boast, Boost and many more.First found in Buckinghamshire, where they held a family seat from very early times and were granted lands by Duke William of Normandy, their liege Lord, for their distinguished assistance at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 A.D. They were originally from Bois in Normandy.
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This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Boyce research. Another 366 words(26 lines of text) covering the years 1086, 1150, 1296, 1413, 1465, 1536, and 1719 are included under the topic Early Boyce History in all our PDF Extended History products.
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Some of the Boyce family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt. Another 94 words(7 lines of text) about their life in Ireland is included in all our PDF Extended History products.
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This is a small excerpt from our full listing of settlers for the name Boyce. Our PDF Extended History provide the complete listing from our dbase of over 500,000 settlers!
Some of the first settlers of this family name were:
Boyce Settlers in the United States in the 17th Century
- Chyna Boyce, who landed in Virginia in 1617
- Allice Boyce, who landed in Virginia in 1622
- Frances Boyce settled in St. Christopher in 1634
- Francis Boyce, aged 25, arrived in St Christopher in 1634
- Chri Boyce, aged 38, arrived in Virginia in 1635
Boyce Settlers in the United States in the 18th Century
- Charles Boyce, who arrived in Virginia in 1711
- Geo Boyce, who landed in Virginia in 1716
- Ann Boyce, who arrived in Virginia in 1728
- James Boyce, who arrived in America in 1765
- Jannet Boyce, aged 16, landed in New York in 1774
Boyce Settlers in the United States in the 19th Century
- Robert Boyce, who arrived in New York in 1810
- John A Boyce, aged 24, landed in New York in 1812
- Joseph Boyce, who arrived in Louisiana in 1813
- Anne Boyce, who landed in New York, NY in 1816
- Henry Boyce, aged 25, landed in America in 1821
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- Kim Boyce (b. 1961), American, gospel singer
- William Boyce (1711-1779), widely regarded as one of the most important English-born composers of the 18th century
- Michael Cecil Boyce (b. 1943), British, Royal Navy Admiral, Chief of Defense Staff, member of the British House of Lords
- William Binnington Boyce (1804-1889), English-born, Australian Wesleyan minister, theologian, philologist and administrator
- Sir Harold Leslie Boyce (1895-1955), Australian-born, British lawyer and politician, Member of Parliament for Gloucester (1929-1945), Lord Mayor of London (1951-1952)
- Second Lieutenant George W g Boyce Jr., awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1944
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- Boyce Family History by E. Daniel Boyce.
- The Genealogical Record of One Branch of the Boyce Family in America by Earnest Boyce.
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- Warner, Philip Warner. Famous Scottish Battles. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1996. Print. (ISBN 0-76070-004-4).
- Burke, Sir Bernard. Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage, The Privy Council, Knightage and Compainonage. London: Burke Publishing, 1921. Print.
- Bowman, George Ernest. The Mayflower Reader A Selection of Articales from The Mayflower Descendent. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing. Print.
- Martine, Roddy, Roderick Martine and Don Pottinger. Scottish Clan and Family Names Their Arms, Origins and Tartans. Edinburgh: Mainstream, 1992. Print.
- Bolton, Charles Knowles. Scotch Irish Pioneers In Ulster and America. Montana: Kessinger Publishing. Print.
- Barrow, G.W.S Ed. Acts of Malcom IV 1153-65 Volume I Regesta Regum Scottorum 1153-1424. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1960. Print.
- Barrow, G.W.S Ed. The Charters of David I The Written Acts of David I King of Scots, 1124-53 and of His Son Henry, Earl of Northumerland, 1139-52. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1999. Print.
- Best, Hugh. Debrett's Texas Peerage. New York: Coward-McCann, 1983. Print. (ISBN 069811244X).
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