| LINEAGE CONNECTIONS: by Marguerite Marreé Mathews BOOG:
JAMES BOOG was born in Dunbarney or Perth, Scotland ca. 1730. He was the son of Andrew Boog, a carpenter from Dunbarney, Perthshire, Scotland & Katharine Scott of Perth. He married CHRISTINA ROSS of Tain, Ross-shire (now the counties of Ross & Cromarty) on 24 March 1764. She was the daughter of Murdo/Murdoch Ross a merchant of Tain, Rosshire, Scotland & Christian or Christina Simson
also of Tain. James Boog and Christina Ross had ten daughters and three sons: (1. Catherine/Katherine Boog b. 13 Feb. 1765, m. William Rose of Dornoch; 2. Johanna Boog b. 06 Jul. 1766, never married; 3. David Boog b. 07 Dec. 1767, died young; 4. Clementina Boog b. 11 (or 18) Dec. 1769, m. 1stSamuel Gallie, m. 2ndAlexander Murdock; 5. Christina Boog b. 21 Mar. 1771, m. Robert Sutherland;
6. Margaret "Peggy" Boog b. 15 Jun. 1772, m. Alexander J. Grant of Edinburgh; 7. Barbara Boog b. 04 (or 10) Sep. 1773, m. John Ross; 8. Jean or Jane Boog b. 21 Sep. 1774, never married; 9. John Boog b. 01 Dec. 1775, m. Isabella Kelly~King Turner of St. Marys, GA; 10. Andrea Boog b. 03 May 1777, m. John McDonald a schoolmaster in Dornoch; 11. Mordina or Murdina Boog b. 16 Jun. 1778, m. James Scott of County of Fife;
12. Elizabeth Boog b. 22 Oct. 1779, died young; 13. James Boog Jr.
b. 03 Mar. 1781, died young). James Boog was carpenter and an architect. He and his family moved to Golspie on the coast of Sutherland where he was employed by the Duke of Sutherland to renovate Dunrobin Castle there. The Boogs rented and lived in another smaller castle from the Duke called Skelbo, located on Loch Fleet. Later, he and his family lived at Dornoch, Scotland, where he purchased a house on High Street. The house, still standing, is now a bookstore. James Boog died 06 March 1810 in Dornoch & is bur. at St. Andrews Churchyard in Golspie, Scotland (although as of July 2000 when I saw and photographed his tombstone, it unfortunately, had been so badly eroded by the elements that the engraving was entirely obliterated). Christina Ross Boog moved to a farm in Grumby, Rogart, Scotland, and died in 1817 in Scotland.
JOHN BOOG was baptized 01 December 1775 in Golspie, Sutherlandshire, Scotland, the son of James Boog & Christina Ross. In 1798, he emigrated from Scotland to Philadelphia, PA, and stayed there with his uncle, John Ross (his mother's brother) who was a merchant in Philadelphia and member of the PA State Legislature. John Ross died quite suddenly while giving a speech at the State House in Philadelphia. John Boog left
Pennsylvania, wended his way down to Georgia, then settled in Camden County, GA. He became a United States citizen there in October 1803. He married ISABELLA KELLY~KING (TURNER) on 19 May 1814 in St. Marys, GA - seven children (listed). Isabella Kelly King was born 18 July 1791 in Falmouth, Jamaica, the daughter of Robert Kelly & Margaret Faith. After her parents died, she was adopted by her uncle & aunt, Major Thomas King
& Mary Elizabeth Faith King (her mother's sister) of Kings Bay Plantation in Camden County, GA. It was Major Thomas King - Justice of the Peace, powerful landowner & cotton merchant, owner of Kings Bay Plantation - who transposed her name. She 1st married Dr. Daniel Turner on 20 Jan. 1807 in St. Marys. He was born 20 Jan. 1782 in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, son of Dr. Peter Turner & Elizabeth Child. He had come to
St. Marys on a visit in the fall of 1804 but stayed to set up his medical practice. He was the leading physician in the county at that time when he died on 14 Oct. 1808 during an outbreak of yellow fever. He never saw his unborn child (Mary Elizabeth/Eliza Turner b. 12 Feb. 1809 St. Marys & d. 14 Nov. 1837, bur. Oak Grove Cem., m. 1stWilliam James Rose 15 Jul. 1828, he was born 1795 & d. 1832, was the son of Katherine Boog &
William Rose of Dornoch, Scotland; Mary Eliza m. 2nd Dr. Frederick Joseph Judson
on 16 Dec. 1835). John Boog owned Antrim Plantation on Dark Entry near St. Marys, also known as "The Dark Entry tract" containing about 9,000 acres. He also owned: Tract on Catfish Creek cont. 200 acres; 12,937 acres on the Head of Spanish Creek; 6,643 acres bet. Catfish & Temple; 300 acres called Bryant Meadows; and another 3,712 acres near Coleraine. He owned several lots in St. Marys: Lot No. 2, bounded by Bryant, Wheeler & Seagrove Streets; two lots 50 x 100 ft. each; Lot No. 42 bounded by Connor, Wheeler, Weed, & Seagrove Streets containing four acres. He owned property on the north end of Cumberland Island. He was a 1st Lieutenant in the Volunteer Troop Light Dragoons (1st Cavalry Reg. of the GA State Militia). He was a merchant in St. Marys and conducted business in Savannah. He sailed to Scotland in 1816 for a visit with relatives there. For many years he was Deputy Marshall for the District Court in Camden County. John Boog died 11 September 1825; Isabella King Kelly Boog died 26 October 1825; both bur. Oak Grove Cem. in St. Marys, Camden County, GA (tombstones missing).
CHILDREN OF JOHN BOOG & ISABELLA KELLY~KING: 1. JULIA ROSS BOOG born 06 April 1815 at Kings Bay Plantation just outside of St. Marys, GA; married CHARLES RINALDO FLOYD (his 2nd wife) 09 September 1831 at Bellevue Plantation in Camden Co., GA - seven children; she died 30 January 1852 at Bellevue Plantation; bur. at Floyd Fam. Cem. nr. Fairfield Plantation, Camden Co., GA.
2. CHRISTINA CATHERINE BOOG born 14 September 1816 in St. Marys, GA; died 02 December 1816 in St. Marys, GA. 3. ISABELLA BOOG "Belle" born 11 October 1817 St. Marys, GA; never married; died 14 August 1842 in St. Marys, GA. 4. JAMES THOMAS BOOG
(twin) born 09 October 1819 St. Marys, GA; died 20 December 1832 while on a visit with the Floyd family at Fairfield Plantation in Camden County, GA; bur. beside his parents at Oak Grove Cem. St. Marys, GA (tombstone missing). 5. AUGUSTA KELLY BOOG (twin) born 09 October 1819 St. Marys, GA; married second cousin, JOHN BOOG GALLIE of Savannah, GA 08 November 1838 - five children; she died 13 July 1849. 6. MARGARET ANN BOOG
born 04 February 1822 St. Marys, GA; married HENRY HAMILTON FLOYD 11 December 1839 in St. Marys, GA - one dau.; she died 24 October 1840 at Bellevue Plantation in Camden Co., GA; she is bur. Oak Grove Cem. St. Marys, GA (tombstone missing). 7. MORDINA JANE BOOG born 14 December 1823 St. Marys, GA; married HENRY HAMILTON FLOYD
04 (or 07) July 1842 in St. Marys, GA - twelve children; she died 24 February 1862 at Clinton (her home by inheritance) nr. present-day Colesburg in Camden County, GA (although according to old letters it may have been nr. Tompkins or Silco); she is bur. at the Floyd Fam. Cem. nr. Fairfield Plantation, Camden Co., GA (tombstone missing). NEXT |
