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Boyts Quakers Bristol area North 1600's

Looking for information on the Boyt families of Tytherington, Itchington, Thornbury, Frenchay, Bristol in the 1600's. Surnames: Boy, Boyt, Boyce, Boyes, Bouys, Boyett, married Gayner

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https://www.tytheringtonroots.co.uk/historical_ramble_round_tytherin.htm
Continuing up West Street, which was part of the old Gloucester road, we come to the old house known as Porch House on the left. It was here that the Boyt family for many years had a pork butch­er's shop. The Boyt's appear to have been descended from Francis Boye, a Quaker who sought refuge in the village in the time of Charles II when the Quakers were being persecuted. In 1672 Edward Horwood, a butcher, lived in this house. His descendants inter­married with the Boyes and became Quakers. One of them established a bank in Thornbury in the building which is now the National Westminster Bank. Another descendant, Basil Harwood was a well known musician and organist at Christchurch Cathedral, Oxford, who wrote the hymn tunes Thornbury and Luckington, named after places his family had been associated with.

Thornbury
https://www.thornburyroots.co.uk/


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