Alice Gifford

• Preferred Name: Alice Gifford^{[1] [2] [3]}
  
• Alternate Name: De Boyd
  
• Gender: F
  
• FSID: GFKV-PG2
  
• Birth: 1350 in Yester Castle, Yester, Haddingtonshire, Scotland, United Kingdom at LATI: N5.9037 LONG: E2.7449
  
• Burial: 1384 in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom at LATI: N5.6158 LONG: E4.4988
  
• Nickname:
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Lady of Yester with note: fs data base
  
• Death: 1384 in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom at LATI: N5.6158 LONG: E4.4988
  
• Occupation: Co-Heiress of Yester
  
• Notes:

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  Alice, daughter and heir of Hugo Gifford of Yester.
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  === Alicia Giffard was the second oldest of ===
  Alicia Giffard was the second oldest of the daughters of Hugh Giffard of Yester. She married Thomas Boyd, who was the Lord of Kilmarnock in Ayrshire. Thomas Boyd was living in 1409 (Wood's Peerage), and was the only one of the four husbands of the heiresses present at the endowing of the collegiate church of St. Bothans in 1420/21. He makes the endowment with the consent and approval of Thomas Boyd the younger, his eldest son and heir (Yester writs 53 & 55). It is possible that the two Thomas Boyds in the 1420 charter were the son and grandson of Alicia Giffard, but the nature and purpose of the endowment strongly suggests it indeed was her aged husband and her son Thomas. Thomas Boyd the younger is the only identified child of Alicia Giffard and Thomas Boyd of Kilmarnock. He married Joanna Montgomery circa 1400, and died at Kilmarnock on July 7, 1432. On Jan. 10, 1452, Robert Boyd, the great-grandson of Thomas Boyd and Alicia Giffard, gave his 1/4 inheritance of Yester, Morham, and Duncanlaw to Sir David de Hay of Yester in exchange for the Barony of Tealing. Robert Boyd retained the advowson of the collegiate church of Bothans. (Yester writ #97).
  
  The de Hays had sold a portion of Locherworth to Sir William Borthwick by 1430, and would make Yester Castle their major residence in the 1430's. By the exchange with Robert Boyd in 1452, they controlled half of the original Yester inheritance. Full de Hay ownership and control of Yester was to be completed by 1512. The McDowells of Makerston appear to have retained their quarter inheritance of Morham and Duncanlaw to at least 1500.
  Yester Castle came under attack in 1547, and was again occupied by the English in 1548. (Wars of the "Rough Wooing" of King Henry VIII 1544-49). Retaken by the Scots shortly after, it was in a damaged state and was abandoned by the Hay family in 1557 in favor of a newly constructed tower house built close by. The castle would become it's present day ruin by the early 17th century. The Hays of Yester were elevated to peerage in the 17th century, and began the construction of the existing present day Yester House in 1697. The Hay family remained owners of Yester until the late 1960's. Yester House and it's estates would be purchased in 1972 by the composer Gian-Carlo Menotti. Yester had been the property and home of the Giffards and their blood descendants the de Hays for 800 consecutive years.
  
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  === PEDIGREE RESOURCE FILE, VOL 6, LDS GENEA ===
  PEDIGREE RESOURCE FILE, VOL 6, LDS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY;

• m. 1384 in Yester Castle, Gifford, East Lothian, Scotland

1. Margaret Boyd of Terregles, b. 1324 in Terregles, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland     d. 1360 in Terregles, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

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