Patrick Boyd Everard

The name 'Patrick Boyd Everard' has surfaced several times now in relation to county Mayo, but where he fits in with the Sligo Everards is not certain.

The marriage certificate of Ignatius Everard, seaman in the Royal Navy, revealed that he was the son of Patrick Boyd Everard, who had died by the time Ignatius married in 1858.

The Registry of Deeds Index Project has two mentions of a Patrick Boyd Everard and one for Patrick Everard:

10 April, 1775: seven people mentioned.
John Browne esq, Westpoint, Mayo; Alexander Clandinning Rev, Westport, Mayo; Patrick Everard; Peter Browne Kelly, Hon, known as Lord Viscount, Westport; Francis Tollett, son of John Tollett; John Tollett Esq, Morehanin, Mayo, almost 840 acres in half-barony of Erris, Mayo; William Tollett, son of John Tollett.
* The Patrick Everard mentioned here would have been Paddy Everard, father of Ignatius.

25 October, 1794: Lease, four people:
Denis Bingham; Dominick Cosgrove, farmer, Kumaleragh, Mayo; Patrick Boyd Everard; John Tollett, gentleman of Monaghin, Mayo, for 250 pounds, mortgaging a moiety of Mooraghin.

21 September, 1805. Post-marriage, nine people-
Mary Bourns, Ballina Mayo; Patrick Boyd Everard of Drum, Trustee; Thomas Hea, hammerman, Mount-melick; Harry Huston Esq, Ardnara, Sligo-Trustee; Francis Knox, attorney, Ballnacloy; Arthur Shaen, Sir, Kilmore-lands of Glenclara and Morahan; Samuel Smith, Esq, Ballina Mayo; Gambell Tollett Esq, Morahan Mayo-the groom. Granting to trustees a moiety of Glenclara and Morahan, also Bannash and Aughlasheen; Jane Tollett, Mrs, Morahan, Mayo-the bride.Als Smith, daughter of said Samuel Smith.

Drum is about 8 or 9 km from Belmullet in Mayo, and very close to Rinanagh, which is where Ignatius Everard, merchant of Sligo, and his father Patrick were from. It is a possibility that Patrick Boyd Everard may be the eldest son of Ignatius Everard and Bridget Higgins...we know that he was born in 1775 and attended Trinity College, but after that his life is a complete mystery. To be continued...