Hello. Please excuse my rather lengthy first comment but having first viewed the site yesterday, I was wishing to add some details not mentioned in the Wilson family (but possibly known). Mary Byers was listed as a female servant (16 years of age) at the residence of the Rev. George Boag during the 1841 census (although her name was spelled Byres).1

I have tried to find a definite connection between these Boags and Catherine (or Katharine) but have not been successful however, during research on the Boags some Wilson information has come up.??

Rev. George Boag was the 15th Minister2 of the Uphall Kirk between 1839 and 1863. During that time, he wrote the New Statistical Account 1845 (of the Parishes of Scotland)for the Parish of Uphall.3

There is an image of George Boag displayed on “A record of The gravestones in the Churchyard of St Nicholas, Uphall (formerly Uphall North)”-August 2009 which is produced on the Uphall on the Web website.4

Rev. George Boag was a son of Rev. John Boag and Agnes Hamilton:

“Rev. John Boag(1775-1863) compiler of the ‘Imperial Lexicon,’ was born at Highgate in the parish of Beith, Ayrshire on 7 Jan. 1775. He matriculated at the university of Glasgow in 1797, and completed his academical course with a view to taking orders in the church of Scotland, but joined the body of independents or congregationalists, who in 1812 formed themselves into the Congregational Union of Scotland. He acted for many years as an evangelist, and not infrequently in the open air or by the wayside. He had small charges in the Isle of Man and Helensburgh. Ultimately he accepted the appointment of pastor over a very small independent congregation in the village of Blackburn, Linlithgowshire, from which, it is believed, he never received more than 25/. to 30/. a year. He also kept a day school on his own account. It was in this humble position that Boag compiled his magnum opus. His aim was to combine etymology, pronunciation, and explanation of scientific terms and others used in art and literature. He wished also to incorporate (1) new words since Johnson, and (2) modifications and other changes of meanings. He commenced this arduous undertaking after he had entered his seventieth year. Within three years his manuscript was ready for the press. It was printed and published by the Edinburgh Printing and Publishing Company. Unfortunately this company speedily became bankrupt. About 1847 Messrs. Fullarton & Co. became proprietors of the ‘Imperial Lexicon,’ and issued it in parts or numbers, constituting two massive volumes. The work had an enormous sale and held its own until the publication of Ogilvie’s Dictionary, which was largely based upon it. Prefixed was a ‘Popular Grammar of the English Language,’ by Mr. R. Whyte. Besides his ‘Imperial Lexicon,’ Boag was the author of a number of pamphlets on questions of the day, and was a frequent contributor to contemporary religious periodicals.
He married Agnes Hamilton on 19 June 1798, by whom he had six sons and three daughters. One of his sons was Sir Robert Boag, mayor of Belfast. He died at Craigton House, Linlithgowshire - the residence of a daughter-in-law, with whom he had resided in his later years - on 15 Sept. 1863, in the eighty-ninth year of his age.
[Communications from Blackburn (Linlithgowshire); from Rev. James Ronaldson, Longridge, Fauldhouse; Rev. George Boag, M.A. Holme Eden Vicarage, Carlisle; John Mcnab, Esq., Edinburgh (of Fullarton & Co.); and Boag’s books] A.B.G.”5

The daughter-in-law referred to in the biography was Eleanor Goldie wife of Rev. George Boag as confirmed by the appearance of John Boag (86 years -Independent Minister (no charge) at the Uphall Manse in the 1861 Scotland census.6

John Boag (15/1/1775) Beith, Ayrshire married (19/6/1798) Agnes Hamilton

• George (bapt. 2/3/1799) Parish: Glasgow, Glasgow City /Lanark7 married Eleanor Goldie (1813-1872)
• James (bapt. 23/8/1803) Parish: Glasgow, Glasgow City/Lanark8
• Margaret (bapt. 5/5/1807) Parish: Coldingham, Berwick9
• Robert (bapt. 19/9/1809) Parish: Coldingham, Berwick10 who became Mayor of Belfast in 1876 and was knighted in 187711
• William (bapt. 28/9/1812) Parish: Coldingham, Berwick12
• Agnes (bapt. 3/7/1816) Parish Row or Rhu Dunbarton13 (listed twice)
• John (bapt. 12/5/1817) Parish: Edinburgh Edinburgh City, Midlothian14
• Patrick (bapt. 4/8/1820) ”Child 8” Parish: Barony Glasgow City, Lanark15

John Boag was the fourth son of George Boag and Margaret Craig:

George Boag married (banns 27/5/1757) Margaret Craig listed as George Boige (FR368 Fr 380) Parish Dunlop, Ayr16 (May 27 1757 when George Boige in the paroch of Mearns and Margaret Craig in this paroch gave over their names for proclamation in order to marriage)

• George Boag (bapt. 8/1/1762) Parish: Beith (Ayr), Ayr17
• Robert Boag (bapt. 20/11/1768) Parish: Beith (Ayr), Ayr18
• William Boag (bapt. 19/5/1771) Parish: Beith (Ayr), Ayr19
• John Boag (bapt. 15/1/1775) Parish: Beith (Ayr), Ayr20

Hard to get any more conclusive information on ancestors here so the only link is that Mary Byers was a servant in the household in 1841. I did wonder if the intellectual pursuits evident in Thomas Braidwood Wilson and Rev Robert Wilson were due to the Boag influence. Returning to Rev. George Boag:

George Boag (1799 - 23/2/1863 (according to headstone)) married Eleanor Goldie (1813 - 14/9/1872 (according to headstone))

• William Goldie Boag (bapt. 16/11/1834) Parish Uphall or Strathbrock, West Lothian21 - died 23/6/1923 at Bonnyrig (according to headstone) 33 years minister of Delting
• John George Boag (1838) - died 29/5/1842 aged 4 (according to headstone)
• Ann Leithead Boag (bapt. 11/8/1839) Parish Uphall or Strathbrock, West Lothian22 - died 3/12/1889 aged 50 years (according to headstone)
• Agnes Hamilton Boag (bapt. 27/3/1842) Parish Uphall or Strathbrock, West Lothian23 - died 3/8/1889 aged 47 year (according to headstone)
• George Boag (bapt. 11/8/1844) Parish Uphall or Strathbrock, West Lothian24 - died 29/5/1842 aged 4 (according to headstone)
• Eleanor Goldie Boag (bapt. 26/2/1847) Parish Uphall or Strathbrock, West Lothian25 - died 3/11/1930 aged 83 (according to headstone)
• James Boag (bapt. 30/9/1849) Parish Uphall or Strathbrock, West Lothian26 - died 1/6/1908 Edinburgh aged 58 (according to headstone)

An image of the headstone is displayed on “A record of The gravestones in the Churchyard of St Nicholas, Uphall (formerly Uphall North)”-August 2009 which is produced on the Uphall on the Web website.27

• 1. GROS Census 1841 672/00 002/00 001 Uphall page 1
• 2. "Strathbrock; or, The history and antiquities of the Parish of Uphall" Author: Primrose, James Publisher: Edinburgh : A. Elliot Year: 1898
• 3. The Statistical Accounts of Scotland 1791-1845 edina http://stat-acc-scot.edina.ac.uk/sas/sas.asp?action=public&passback=
• 4. Uphall on the Web http://www.uphall.org/downloads/stnicholas-gravestones.pdf prepared by Mr. Harry MacPherson
• 5. Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-20, 22 Record for John Boag. pp. 742-3
• 6. GROS Census 1861 Parish: Uphall; ED: 2; Page: 11; Line: 5; Roll: CSSCT1861_121
• 7. GROS OPR Births 644/01 0190 0421
• 8. GROS OPR 644/01 0200 0170
• 9. GROS OPR Birth 732/00 0060 0046
• 10. GROS OPR Birth 732/00 0060 0099
• 11. Belfast City Council http://www.belfastcity.gov.uk/lordmayor/formerlordmayors.asp
• 12. GROS OPR Birth 732/00 0060 0174
• 13. GROS OPR Births 503/00 0010 0094
• 14. GROS OPR Birth 685/01 0400 0342
• 15. GROS OPR Births 622/00 0080 0018
• 16. GROS OPR Banns & Marriages 591/00 0020 0097 and 591/00 0020 0107?
• 17. GROS OPR Birth 581/00 0020 0298?
• 18. GROS OPR Birth 581/00 0020 0329
• 19. GROS OPR Birth 581/00 0020 0341
• 20. GROS OPR Birth 581/00 0020 0360?
• 21. GROS OPR Births 672/00 0030 0106
• 22. GROS OPR Births 672/00 0030 0106?
• 23. GROS OPR Births 672/00 0030 0096
• 24. GROS OPR Births 672/00 0030 0105
• 25. GROS OPR Births 672/00 0030 0112
• 26. GROS OPR Births 672/00 0030 0117
• 27. Uphall on the Web http://www.uphall.org/downloads/stnicholas-gravestones.pdf prepared by Mr. Harry MacPherson