PAPERS OF A. W. BOYD, NATURALIST

MARKLAND FAMILY

Genealogy

Ralph Markland

Jeremiah Markland

John Markland

J H Markland

Eliza Markland

Letters, from various correspondents

Drawings and photographs

Cricket

Miscellanea

CONYBEARE FAMILY

Genealogy

J J Conybeare

W D Conybeare

Letters, from various correspondents

Farmer family

Oliver/Olivier family

Miscellanea

A W BOYD

Papers relating to Markland catalogue

Papers relating to historical research

Maps, photographs and drawings

Folklore

Wildlife and conservation

War

Miscellanea

Mrs V B Boyd

Arnold Whitworth Boyd was a naturalist and antiquarian with interests in local history, folklore, dialect and conservation. He was born in 1885 and died in 1959. Through his marriage in 1919 to Violet Blanche Conybeare he was related to the latter family and to the Marklands of south Lancashire see D5154/16, D515417. He attended Rugby School and Oxford University and served in World War 1, attaining the rank of major. From 1920 he lived in Frandley House, Seven Oaks, Antrobus.

His best-known work is A Country Parish: Great Budworth in the County of Chester 1951. He calendared the Markland Mss held at Wigan Public Library in 1930 and transcribed the churchwardens' accounts and town books of Great Budworth, Antrobus, Seven Oaks, Barnton and Newton by Daresbury. He contributed for many years to the Manchester Guardian and was assistant editor of British Birds. For an obituary, see Trans Lancs & Cheshire Antiquarian Soc, Volume 69.

Many of the historical papers and ephemera of the Markland and Conybeare families came into Mr Boyd's possession. This collection has been divided into three parts, relating as far as possible to the activities of the Marklands, the Conybeares and the Boyds