UCL

Rendezvous Bay

Antigua

Estate Details

Associated People (4)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
- 1759 [EY] → Owner
James Doig of Antigua
- 1768 [EY] → Owner
William Henry Doig of Antigua and Cookston
- 1787 [LA] → Tenant-for-life
Ann Riddell (née Doig)

Ann Riddell broke the entail on Rendezvous Bay in 1784 and then became tenant-for-life on her marriage shortly before her death in 1787.

1817 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Owner
John Hurst Doig

Associated Claims (1)

Antigua 401 (Rendezvous Bay)
£587 9S 10D

Notes

An estate 'in Rendezvous Bay' was left by William Henry Doig of Antigua and Cookstown N.B. [sic] in his will proved in 1768 to his daughter Ann for life, then to his brother John and his heirs, then to the son of his brother James. The estate appears to have been the Rendezvous estate owned by William Henry Doig of Antigua and Cookstown's great-nephew John Hurst Doig, although if it was the same estate it was substantially smaller by the 1820s with some 40 enslaved people on it against 207 when Ann Doig, the daughter of William Henry Doig of Antigua and Cookstown, conveyed the estate in 1784.

Sources

Vere Langford Oliver, History of Antigua Vol. I pp. 204-206.

Estate Information (5)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 40(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Samuel John Mortimer Marchant, attorney of John Hurst Doig. Inferred to be Rendezvous Bay.

 
T71/245 519-520
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 41(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

S.M. Marchant atty to John Hurst Doig.

 
T71/246 476-477
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 41(Tot)  
[Name] Rendezvous Bay  
 

William Henry Doig, attorney to John Hurst Doig proprietor of Rendezvous Bay estate.

 
T71/248 212-213
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 46(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

John Hurst Doig.

 
T71/249 208
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 43(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

John Hurst Doig proprietor.

 
T71/250 196-197