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Life tenant of 'slave-property' in Antigua. Daughter of William Henry Doig (q.v.) and wife of Walter Riddell (q.v.).
Will of Ann Riddell wife of Lower Berkeley Street Portman Square [made in 1786] proved 12/06/1787. In the will she rehearsed her marriage settlement [dated 'May past'] whereby the estate at Rendezvous Bay was placed in trust for her for life and then entailed to the male issue, in default of which to the female issue.
Vere Langford Oliver shows a deed of 1784 in which Ann Doig spinster of Suffolk Street barred the entail on the estate at Rendezvous Bay.
PROB 11/1154/108.
Vere Langford Oliver History of Antigua Vol. I p. 206.
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Absentee?
Transatlantic
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Maiden Name
Doig
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Spouse
Walter Riddell
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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:
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- 1787 [LA] → Tenant-for-life
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. |
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Daughter → Father
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Daughter → Mother
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Grand-daughter → Grandfather
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Wife → Husband
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Suffolk Street, Marylebone, London, Middlesex, London, England
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1791 - 1862
Free woman of colour; left Demerara in 1812 as a young woman and settled in Starthforth, Yorkshire, where she died in 1862.
Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2024
CITING THIS RECORD:
'Ann Riddell (née Doig)', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146664823 [accessed 22nd November 2024].
