B for Barbara Hoy

Barbara “Barbry” Hoy was the wife of Alexander Hoy. She gave birth to two daughters, Mary and Elizabeth. Barbry and her family went into debt by the late 1760s, and her husband joined the army in the 1770s to help with the debt. She struggled financially, and soon enough needed government assistance. Once the family was reunited in 1780, she widowed around 1782.