William Henry Doig of Antigua and Cookston

William Henry Doig, slave-owner on Antigua and later of Hope Park in Edinburgh. Owned an estate in Rendezvous Bay [probably the one appearing in the Slave Registers and compensation records simply as Rendezvous Bay] and Rigby or Rigby's estate. Father of Ann Riddell nee Doig (whose will of 1787 suggests she was the only surviving child of William Henry Doig) and great-uncle of John Hurst Doig. William Henry Doig's father James whose will was proven in 1759 left him Rendezvous Bay and a half share of an estate in Essequibo co-owned with Absalam [sic] Seagers (William Henry Doig's cousin John Blair settled in Essequibo).

1. Will of William Henry Doig of Cookstown County Tyrone [sic] 09/04/1768. In fact, he was of Cookstown or Cookston in Brechin, and was given as late of Hope Park, Edinburgh in his daughter Ann's will. He left his estate in Rendezvous Bay in trust to his son, then his daughter, then to his brother John Doig, then to the son of his late brother James Doig. In a codicil, he changed the priority, and specified that if his niece Elizabeth Lane Doig should inherit the Rendezvous estate she would give up Rigby's to her uncle John or pay him £10,000.

Vere Langford Oliver History of Antigua Vol. I pp. 204-205; David Dobson Scots in Latin America p. 11.

1. PROB 11/938/84; administration of will of Ann Riddell wife of Lower Berkeley Street Portman Square granted 12/06/1787, PROB 11/1154/108. Oliver's reading of the codicil to the will of William Henry Doig differs from that above.