UCL

Rigby Estate

Antigua

Estate Details

Associated People (5)

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

William Henry Doig disposed of the Rigby's estate under his will made in 1765 and proved in 1768

1745 [EA] - 1745 [LA] → Seller
Richard Rigby MP of Mistley Hall

This is a tentative connection between the estate sold by Richard Rigby and his aunt and uncle in 1745 with Rigby's in Antigua.

1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
William Henry Doig
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
Mary Harris Doig

Associated Claims (2)

Antigua 16 (Rigby Estate)
£278 1S 9D
Antigua 14
£183 1S 1D

Estate Information (6)

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1745
[Name] Not given, but possibly Rigby's  
 

John and Mary (nee Perrie or Perry) Cleland and their nephew Richard Rigby conveyed an estate to George Moncrieff of Antigua.

1817
[Number of enslaved people] 69(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Thomas Warwick Hyndman one of the firm of Robert Hyndman lessees from Wm Henry Doig the proprietor. Inferred to be Rigby's

 
T71/245 125-126
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 62(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Thomas Warwick Hyndman one of Robert Hyndman, Son & Co., the lessees from Wm Henry Doig props. Inferred to be Rigby's.

 
T71/246 400-401
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 61(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Thomas Sanderson one of the firm of Robert Hyndman, Son & Co., lessees from William Henry Doig prop.

 
T71/248 688-689
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 61(Tot)  
[Name] Rigby's  
 

William Henry Doig proprietor Rigby's estate. The previous registration was by Thomas Sanderson one of the firm of Robert Hyndman, Son & Co., the then lessees. William Henry Doig also registered [pp. 211-212] a further 49 enslaved people 'under rent to me on Rigby's' the property of heirs of Elizabeth Darby, 'as Renter from the Heirs of Elizabeth Darby.' These latter enslaved people had previously been registered by George Weatherill Ottley atty to Hastings Elwin Esq., executor under the will of Langford Lovell Hodge decd.

 
T71/249 209-210
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 60(Tot)  
[Name] Rigby's  
 

William Henry Doig proprietor Rigby's Estate.

 
T71/250 191-192