• John Bovaird (1810-1899) son of John Bovaird and Eleanor Pearson.

According to Harold Stewart Bovaird, John Bovaird was born about 1816 and came from Ireland with the rest of his family circa 1836. His wife, who's last name was Johnstone, was thought to be a sister of  Richard Bovaird's wife Mary Johnstone¹.  I don't know whether there was any reason for thinking that they were sisters other than the fact that they shared the Johnstone surname. 

I found a registration of the marriage of John Bovaird and Jane Johnstone in Conwall, Letterkenny, Ireland on April 1, 1848².  I also found John Bovaird, Jane Bovaird and Letty Bovaird, from Letterkenny, listed as passengers on the ship Envoy which sailed from Londonderry to Québec in 1848³.

 John Bovaird and Jane Bovaird, along with their son John, are listed in the 1851 Census of Canada living in Augusta Township, Grenville County, Ontario, Canada West.  There were two other people in their household; Rebecca Johnson and Alexander Bovaird.  Among their close neighbours were other Bovairds; James Bovaird and his wife Easter Bovaird and their family, William Bovaird, Richard Bovaird, and Alexander Bovaird and his wife Ann Bovaird.  Hugh Kelso and his wife Prudence Kelso (Prudence Bovaird)  were also neighbours⁴.  Jane Bovaird died in 1869.  Her maiden name, Johnstone, is on her grave marker.  I think that it is reasonable to conclude that the John Bovaird and Jane Johnstone who were married in Letterkenny, Ireland on  April 1, 1848 are the John Bovaird and Jane Bovaird who were passengers on the Envoy that sailed to Québec and also the same family that was living in Augusta Township with their son John in 1851.

John Bovaird and Jane Johnstone only had one child that I know of,  John Bovaird Junior.

Sometime after the death of his first wife, Jane Johnstone, John Bovaird married Elizabeth Steele.  They had two children, Mary or Minnie and David.

• David Shephard Bovaird  (1883-1950) son of John Bovaird and Elizabeth Steele.

I believe that David Bovaird is one of the cousins that my grandmother Mary Molloy wrote to.  According to Rebecca Molloy, her mother, Mary Molloy wrote to her cousin David until the mid to later 1940s.  If Sarah Johnstone was related to the Bovaird family only through the marriage of her sister, Jane Johnstone to John Bovaird, then David Bovaird was not actually related to Mary Molloy.  I do not know whether my grandmother would have called David her cousin even if he was not one.  

1.  Harold Stewart Bovaird, The chronology and genealogy of the Bovaird - Bovard family, (By the author 1962-1964) p 27
2.  Ireland. General Register Office (Main Author), Marriage records, 1845-1870, with indexes to marriages, 1845-1921, in the General Registry Office of Ireland, Ireland. General Register Office (Main Author), Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA., Film #0101297, p 602
3. Mitchell, Brian, Irish Passenger Lists, 1847-1871. Lists of passengers sailing from Londonderry to America on ships of the J. & J. Cooke line and the McCorkell line. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1992. p 41-42
4. 1851 Census Canada West, Grenville County, Augusta Township,  Part 1 p 81-82

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