In 1740 David was the schoolmaster in Maybole, Ayr, Scotland. In 1747 £40 was paid for two years' salary to David Doig, Schoolmaster. He was again appointed schoolmaster on 10 June 1749. In 1756 he was Master of the Grammar School. On 11 Oct 1756 he was admitted as a Councillor in Maybole.

'Died lately at Maybole, upwards of a hundred years of age, Mr. David Doig, late master of the Grammar school of that place.' (Notice in 'The Edinburgh Advertiser,' 24 Sept 1784). David died at age 104, which places his birth about 1679.

^{Notes for Rev. John Duncan}

John was a school master in Maybole, Ayr and Kilmarnock, Ayr. He became a minister at Ardrossan, Ayr in 1788. After Christian's death John remarried twice.

     JOHN DUNCAN, probably son of John 178g D., weaver, Kilmarnock; educated at Univ. of Glasgow; became rector of the Grammar School of Kilmarnock; licen. by Presb. of Irvine llth April 1787; pres. by Archibald, Earl of Eglinton, 28th Dec. 1787; when sent to preach by the Presb. he was stopped by a mob and turned back 4th May 1788. The case subsequently was referred to the Assembly and settlement was appointed by the Commission, and he was ord. at Irvine 28th Aug. 1789. He died 31st Jan. 1819, aged 70. He marr. (1) Christian Dow [Doig], who died 26th Feb. 1799: (2) 23rd Dec. 1799, Helen Hart, who died 28th May 1805, and had issue Catherine, born 15th Feb. 1801; Jane, born 2nd Feb. 1805: (3) 15th Nov. 1808, Margaret Logan, Irvine. [M Kay s Hist, of Kilmarnock, 159 ; Scots Mag., li.; Report on Church Patronage.]

     History of the county of Ayr, Volume 1, By James Paterson, 1847, p. 224-226:

Parish of Ardrossan - Ecclesiastical History -

Ardrossan, like many other parishes, was thrown into considerable excitement by the operation of the law of patronage, towards the close of last century. The following memorandum of occurrences during the vacancy subsequent to the death of the Rev. Mr Dow, July 20, 1787, is recorded in the session book:-" After several fruitless applications to the Earl of Eglinton in favour of Mr James Stevens, who had been some few months assistant to Mr Dow, it was reported to the parish for certain that a presentation had been given to one Mr John Duncan, schoolmaster at Kilmarnock, and a preacher. Against him some remonstrances were given in to the Presbytery in March [1788]. The Presbytery appointed the Rev. Mr Duncan to preach at Ardrossan, May 4. When this day came, and it was known that he had arrived at Stevenston with three coaches, six horsemen, and sixteen or eighteen clubmen, with a smith and great forehammers, to break the kirk doors, supposed to be shut, there was a running together of some women and boys, on design, as was judged, to oppose them, but no men in the parish of any consequence among them. Between 11 and 12, Duncan and his people arrived at the foot of Finlay's brass, and being informed by some gentlemen that a mob was got up in the village, he thought it proper to sheer off with his gang to Irvine, where, after some time spent in carousing, they set out for Kilmarnock, where they continued the day at a second sederunt [a prolonged sitting], as they had done at Irvine. By appointment of the Presbytery of Irvine, Aug. 5, '88, Mr Brisbane was appointed to preach and intimate a call to Mr Duncan's settlement; and Messrs Maxwell, Pollock, and Oughterson to meet at Ardrossan kirk to moderate a call for said presentee-Maxwell to preach. The call was served." "Aug. 28.-Messrs Pollock and Oughterson arrived at the Turk's Head, Saltcoats, and were advertised that the kirk was open, and everything quiet. However, some idle women and children gathering about the door where they were, and giving some cheers or hurras, they thought proper to sheer off-the same idle gang following and harming them half way to Stevenston, but without any violence. After several to's and fro's before presbytery and synod, the presentee, by sentence of commission of General Assembly, Aug. 26,1789, was appointed to be ordained minister of Ardrossan, on or before the 1st September. The presbytery, at their next meeting, appoint, ordain, at Irvine, Aug. 27, Mr Graham of Comrie to serve the edict for that purpose; but Mr Graham did not come, so no edict was served; however, the ordination was performed in Irvine kirk, August 27, when Mr Miller from Kilmaurs preached and presided." "Thursday, Sept. 17.-When said Duncan appointed this day for entering on his ministry-hourly approaching-but did not come." "Sabbath, Sept. 20,1789.-This day Mr Duncan having appointed to preach here, came as far as Stevenston; but fearing an uproar among the people, he stopped and preached there in the afternoon; but Bailie Ralston advanced as far as the kirk. No harm done." "May 4.-A visitation appointed by presbytery." "May 13.-By said appointment at Saltcoats, Messrs Richmond, Graham, Miller, and Rowan, their clerk, joined by Mr Woodrow and Duncan, with Grange, Hudderhurst, and Constable Crafurd from Kilwinning, came to Saltcoats, where they were met at Mr Robert Campbell's close, innkeeper, by a great mob of women and youngsters in women's clothing; and judging it not safe to go to the kirk in such Company and circumstances, they agreed to go to the schoolhouse, and marched along with the mob, without molestation They came to merchant Brown's house, being on the confines of the parish of Ardrossan, where the mob began the attack most furiously. However, they made good their way, at least most of them, to the schoolhouse, among showers of dirt and stones from all quarters." In this way was the settlement of Mr Duncan ultimately effected.

Witnesses to David's christening were William Blair and Robert Alexander.

It is presumed that David was previously married before Jean Hutchison by his age and the appearance of two older Doig girls in the area. Son David was illegitimate.

David was the schoolmaster and postmaster in Maybole, Ayrshire, Scotland. He was appointed postmaster on 13 Aug 1792. At that time he was listed as the son of the deceased David Doig, schoolmaster of Maybole.

The testament of David Doig, Residing at Newton-Upon-Ayr, husband of Jean Hutchison, was recorded 7 Aug 1819 in the Glasgow Sheriff Court. Original document: Page 1, Page 2. Transcription follows:

Inventory of David Doig, Glasgow (page 647-8):

At Glasgow the seventh day of August 1819, Compeared James Monteath Writer in Glasgow and gave in the Inventory & Letter produced herewith, whereof the Inventory follows.

Inventory of the personal estate of David Doig residing in Newtown upon Ayr who died on the eleventh day of January 1819, with Interest due on principal sums at that date. -

Primo. Cash in the Ayr Bank including interest up to the 11 January 1819 --- £350.4.10.

2nd. Arrears of rent and Feu duties due from three parks at Maybole at Martinmas 1818 --- 16.0.0.

3rd. The deceased's household furniture Bed and Table linen Plate & o. to which the deceased's Widow has a right under her Contract of Marriage Inventoried & Valued by George Campbell licensed Appraiser in Ayr conform to Inventory & Appt. dated 20th March 1819 --- 122.10.0.

Total --- £487.14.10.

Exclusive of certain funds & effects which the deceased was possessed of or entitled to as Trustee for others and not beneficially.

At Ayr the seventh day of July 1819. In presence of Alexander Murdoch Esquire one of his Majesty's Trustees of the peace for Ayrshire appeared William Doig youngest son and one of the Executors of the deceased David Doig who being solemnly sworn & interrogated Depones that the said David Doig died upon the 11th day of January 1819, and the Deponent has entered upon the management and possession of the deceased's personal estate as one of the Executors nominated by him in a Disposition and Deed of Settlement executed by him upon the 25th day of October 1815, registered in the Sheriff Court Books of Ayr the 16th day of January 1819, an extract whereof is now exhibited and signed by the Deponent and said Justice of the Peace as relative hereto. That the Deponent does not know of any settlement or writing relative to the disposal of the deceased's personal Estate or Effects or any part of them other than that now exhibited and an Antinuptual Contract of Marriage executed by the said deceased David Doig and Jean Hutchison his widow who has survived him under which she has a right to the deceased's Household furniture and other articles comprehended in No. 3 of the foregoing inventory. That the said inventory signed by the Deponent and the said Justice of the Peace as relative hereto is a full and complete Inventory of the personal Estate and Effects of the said deceased David Doig wheresoever situated and belonging or due to him beneficially at the time of his death insofar as the same has come to the Deponent's knowledge and that the value of the said Estate situated in Scotland is of the value of Four hundred pounds Sterling and under Five hundred pounds Sterling. All which is truth as he shall answer to God.

(Signed Wm. Doig Archibald Murdoch & No.)

The settlement referred to in the foregoing Depone is recorded in the Sheriff Court Books of Ayr on the 16th January 1819.

Note: In 1832 the population of Maybole Parish was 6,287.

She may be the Jean Hutchson born at Ashyard and christened 10 Oct 1757, daughter of Hugh Hutchson [Mother not named]. Uncertain if this is the same Jean of i her father is Hugh Hutchison. Her first daughter was born by 1791 and was named Janet Smith Doig after her mother Janet Smith. However her mother did not marry Hugh Hutchison until 1794, suggesting she was illegitimate. That Hugh was her father is indicated by him bequeathing his estate to her eldest son Hugh Doig, or it was agreed as part of the contract of marriage of her mother to Hugh Hutchison. It appears she and her mother lived together at the timeof thier deaths in 1822.

The burial record reads: Nov 27 Mrs Doig Main Street, aged.

Jean's uncle, Alexander Hutcheson of Southfield; recorded his testament 12 Mar 1789 at the Glasgow Sheriff Court, proved in favor of his brother Hugh Hutcheson (Jean's father) who left the property to Hugh Doig (Jean's son). Original document: Page 1, Page 2, Page 3

Jean's father, Hugh Hutcheson of Southfield; testament recorded 6 Sept 1813 in the Glasgow Commissary Court, leaving property to Hugh Doig. Original document: Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4, Page 5.

The testament and inventory of Jean Doig, alias Hutchison, widow of David Doig of Welltrees residing in Maybole, was recorded 30 Mar 1824 in the Ayr Sheriff Court. Original document: Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4, Page 5. Transcription follows:

Inventory of the Umquale Mrs. Jean Doig, Ayr (pages 73-81):

At Ayr the thirteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and twenty four years Compeared Walter Andrews after designed who produced inventory of the personal estate of the deceased Mrs. Jean Hutchison alias Doig after designed, and also an extract of the Trust Disposition and Settlement of the defunct and of which Inventory and Extract Trust Disposition and Settlement the tenor follows.

Inventory of the Personal Estate of Mrs. Jean Hutchison alias Doig residing in Maybole relict of the deceased David Doig of Welltrees who died on the 23rd day of November 1822, with interest on principal sums up to that date.

1st Arrear of Jointure due to the decreased by the heirs of her husband as follows viz.

To Balance of Jointure due 15 May 1819 --- 10, 6, 6

Interest from 15 May till 23 November 1822, 3 years 6 months & 8 days --- 1, 16, 6½

To Balance of Jointure due 12 November 1819 --- 10, 6, 6

Interest from that date till 23 November 1822, 3 years & 11 days --- 1, 11, 3½

To Balance of Jointure due 15 May 1820 --- 10, 6, 6

Interest from that date till 23 November 1822, 2 years 6 months & 8 days --- 1, 6, ½

To Balance of Jointure due 12 November 1820 --- 10, 6, 6

Interest from that date till 23 November 1822, 2 years & 11 days --- 1, 0, 11½

To Balance of Jointure due 15 May 1821 --- 10, 6, 6

Interest from that date till 23 November 1822, 1 year 6 months & 8 days --- 0, 15, 8½

To Balance of Jointure due 12 November 1821 --- 10, 6, 6

Interest from that date till 12 November 1822, 1 year & 11 days --- 0, 10, 7½

To Balance of Jointure due 15 May 1822 --- 10, 6, 6

Interest from that date till 12 November 1822, 6 months & 8 days --- 0, 5, ½

To Balance of Jointure due 12 November 1822 --- 10, 6, 6

Interest from that date till 23 same month, 11 days --- 0, 0, 3½

To Balance of Jointure due 15 May 1823 to which Mrs. Doig was entitled to uplift --- 10, 6, 6

2nd debts due to the decreased supposed to be good --- 7, 6, 10 --- total 100, 5, 10

Andrew Bowman Crosstonhill --- 6, 7, 10

William Black smith Maybole --- 7, 10, 0

William M'Kail wright Maybole --- 10, 0, 0

Peter Smith laborer Maybole --- 1, 17, 0

William Martin Barclye --- 4, 0, 0

J. M. Kaillester Barclye --- 1, 10, 0

J. M'Bride --- 1, 5, 0

Total --- 32, 9, 10

3rd The deceased's Household furniture Bed and Table Linen and Sheets per inventory and valuation by Mr. John Haswell dated 5 Feby 1823 --- 31, 11, 0

Total --- £164, 6, 2

Signed W. Andrews, Well Eaton

At Ayr the thirteenth day of March eighteen hundred and twenty four years In presence of William Eaton Esquire Deputy Commissary for Ayrshire Appeared Walter Andrews, Writer in Maybole One of the Trustees Nominated and appointed by the deceased Jean Hutchison alias Doig widow of the deceased David Doig of Welltrees who being solemnly sworn and interrogated on oath Depones that the deceased Jean Doig died on the twenty third day of November eighteen hundred and twenty two and the Deponent and James Fergusson Esqr Advocate and John Ronald farmer in Mackailston have since entered on the management of the defuncts personal moveable estate for behoof of and as Trustees for Janet Smith Doig spouse to William Bell student of medicine in Edinburgh, Ann Doig spouse of John McCrorie farmer in Attiquin and John and William Doig Merchants in Lima her children in virtue of a Trust Disposition and Settlement executed in their favor of date the fifth day of May eighteen hundred and twenty one and recorded in the Sheriff Court Books of Ayrshire the fifth day of December eighteen hundred and twenty two conform to Extract thereof herewith exhibited that the Deponent knows of no Testamentary Disposition and Settlement or other deed or writing executed by the defunct regulating the disposal of her effects than the Trust Disposition and Settlement above noticed. Depones that the foregoing Inventory which is subscribed by the Deponent and Commissary is a full and complete Inventory of the personal estate and effects of the said deceased Jean Hutchison or Doig situated and belonging or due beneficially to the deceased at the time of her death in so far as the same hath come to the knowledge of the deponent; and that the value of said estate situated as aforesaid is of the value of One hundred pounds Sterling and under the value of Two hundred pounds Sterling. All which is truth as the Deponent shall answer to God.

Signed W. Andrews, Will Easton.

At Ayr the fifth day of December in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty two in presence of Archibald Bell Esquire Advocate Sheriff Depute of Ayrshire compeared Alexander Smith writer in Ayr as procurator for Mrs. Jean Hutchison alias Doig after designed and gave in the Trust Disposition and Settlement after copied to be registered in the Sheriff Court Books of Ayr conform to the clause of registration therein mentioned which desire the said judge found reasonable and ordained the same to be registered accordingly whereof the tenor follows; I Jean Hutchison alias Doig residing in Ayr and relict of the deceased David Doig of Welltrees considering that by contract of marriage entered into between me and the said deceased David Doig bearing date the ninth day of May seventeen hundred and eighty nine the said David Doig inter alia in case of my surviving him, Bound and Obliged himself his heirs successors whatsoever to pay to me the said Jean Hutchison alias Doig a free yearly jointure or annuity of Fifty Pounds Sterling during all the days of my life & that at two terms in the year Martinmas and Whitsunday by equal portions beginning the first terms payment at the first of these terms that shall happen after the death of the said David Doig for the half year preceding, and so to continue the payment thereof termly during my life with a fifth part more of each terms payment in case of failure or non punctual payment and the lawful interest of the said termly payments from the time the same should fall due till paid; and the said David Doig did by said Contract of Marriage farther assign and dispone to me the said Jean Hutchison the whole household furniture heirship moveables included which he should be possessed of at his death with full power to me the said Jean Hutchison to intromit therewith and dispose thereof at pleasure, as the said Contract of Marriage of the date aforesaid and containing sundry other clauses more fully bears; and also considering that the whole estate of my deceased husband does not produce yearly the said sum of Fifty Pounds Sterling but that there was a Martinmas last eighteen hundred and twenty one a sum due me of sixty three pounds nine shillings Sterling per account thereof subscribed by me as relative hereto, and at my death there will be a farther deficiency all which sums as accumulated at my decease with the interest due thereon should & ought to form a claim against the heirs and heritable estate of my said deceased husband, and for the purpose of having this done in the manner aforementioned and being resolved to settle all my worldly affairs so as to prevent disputes after my death and having full confidence in the persons afternamed for the purposes herein after declared; Therefore I have Disponed assigned conveyed and made over as I by these presents and for the uses and purposes aforementioned assign dispone convey and make over from me my heirs and successors to and in favor of John Doig my eldest son now in life, William Doig, my youngest son, if either of them are in the United Kingdom at the time of my death, and altho they are out of the Kingdom at my death they shall have power to act when they return to it. James Fergusson Esquire of Crosshill Advocate, William Adair Goudie Surgeon in Maybole and Walter Andrews Writer there, and the Acceptor or Acceptors of them and survivor or survivors of them whom failing to such other person or persons as shall be assumed named and appointed by them or the survivor of them pursuant to the powers herein after committed to them All and sundry lands heritages dispositions in security heritable Bonds Adjudications Tacks Steadings and possessions presently belonging or which shall belong to me at the time of my death with the whole rents and evidents thereof, and also all debts sums of money due or owing or which shall be addebted and owing to me at the time of my decease by any person or persons whatever by Bonds Bills Promissory Notes Receipts Accounts or any other manner of way, Together with the whole goods and gear and every other heritable and moveable real and personal estate presently belonging or which shall happen to belong to me at the time of my death with the whole vouchers and instructions thereof conceived in favor of me my predecessors and authors and particularly and without prejudice to the aforesaid generality in and to the sum that may be due by the heirs of my late husband at my death arising from the deficiency by the rents and others of the subjects belonging to my said deceased husband as inadequate to pay the jointure of Fifty Pounds Sterling contracted to be paid by the foresaid Contract of Marriage with full power to my said Trustees to accumulate and secure the same as after mentioned or in any other way they may deem proper for the purposes after expressed - Excepting always from the disposition my whole household furniture bed and table linen silver plate lying money Bank Notes Gold and Silver coined and uncoined Horses Cattle Sheep and other live stock which I hereby assign and convey to my youngest daughter Janet Smith Doig expressly excluding her brothers and sisters should she survive me but in the event of her predeceasing me and without heirs of her Body then and in that case the whole furniture and others disponed in favor of the said Janet Smith Doig shall be disponed by my said Trustees and the proceeds thereof divided as after directed; but declaring always that these presents are granted for the uses and purposes after mentioned - that at my death or as soon thereafter as may be and in case the said Janet Smith Doig shall have predeceased me and without having lawful issue my said Trustees before named or the acceptor or acceptors survivor or survivors of them whom failing such other person or persons as shall be assumed named and appointed by them shall dispose of the whole furniture and effects of which I may die possessed and before conveyed to the said Janet Smith Doig in case of her surviving me, and shall divide the proceeds arising therefrom after deducting all my just and lawful debts deathbed and funeral charges and other necessary expenses among my surviving children viz: Anne Doig or McCorie spouse of John McCroie in Attiquin, William Doig my youngest son and John Doig my eldest surviving son failing either of whom by death before me without lawful issue then the share falling to the deceaser shall be divided equally among the persons before named surviving; But in case any of them predeceasing shall leave lawful issue then the share belonging to him or her shall be divided among his or her respective issue share and share alike; And farther my said Trustees at my death shall accumulate the sum due by the heirs of my late husband into a principal sum and for the same and the interest due thereon shall take an heritable security over the property conveyed in trust by the said David Doig to the said John and William Doig for behoof of themselves and their sisters and their heirs, and the interest arising from such Bond or from the sum due me as accumulated, my said Trustees shall termly and yearly pay over to the said Janet Smith Doig should she survive me and remain unmarried; but should she marry then my said Trustees are hereby directed to uplift said money and divide the same equally among my whole children viz: the said Janet Smith Doig, Anne Doig or McCrorie, William Doig and the said John Doig or their heirs should either of them be dead and have left lawful issue; But in the event of the said Janet Smith Doig continuing unmarried then she is to receive the interest of said accumulated sum during all the days of her life and at her death my said Trustees shall uplift and divide the same among my children before named the share of any of them predeceasing bring to be divided among his or her lawful issue should there be any and if not among the person or persons before named surviving; But declaring always as it is hereby specially provided and declared that any share of my means and estate falling to the said John Doig and his heirs shall not be liable to the diligence of Creditors - If my said Trustees or the survivor of them shall think it necessary to take the assistance of any other person in the management of this Trust I hereby authorize and empower them or the survivor or acceptor or acceptors to assume name and appoint such person or persons for that purpose as they or he shall think proper and the person so to be named by my said Trustees or the survivor of them shall be as fully invested with the right of the whole subjects hereby conveyed and all the powers committed to the Trustees before named as if they had been named by those presents - And lastly for rendering these presents the more effectual I hereby nominate and appoint the said John and William Doig James Fergusson Esquire William Adair Goudie and Walter Andrews and the acceptor or acceptors survivor or survivors of them and other person or persons that may be assumed in virtue of the powers before expressed to be my sole Executor or Executors and universal Legators or Legator for the uses and purposes before expressed hereby declaring all others from that office with power to them or the acceptor or survivor as aforesaid expede confirmation and all other letters that may be necessary and declaring that my said Trustees shall not be bound to the diligence in solidum but only for their own actual intromissions, Reserving power to myself at any time of my life or even on deathbed to after innovate or revoke these presents in whole or in part as I shall see cause, but declaring that the same so far as not altered by me shall be valid and effectual tho found lying by me undelivered or in the custody of any Trustee or any other person to whom I may entrust the same with the delivery whereof I have Dispone for ever; And I consent to the Registration hereof of the Books of Council and Session or others competent therein to remain for preservation and thereto Constitute the said Alexander Smith writer in Ayr my prors In witness thereof these presents written on this and the two preceding pages of stamped paper by Walter Andrews writer in Maybole are subscribed by me at Maybole this fifth day of May eighteen hundred and twenty one before the witnesses Thomas Brackenridge residing in Maybole and the said Walter Andrews - signed - Jean Doig Tho. Brackenridge - Witness Walter Andrews - Witness

Follows Codicil - I Jean Hutchison, etc. [Includes replacement of deceased Trustee and payment of debts owing.]

Children of David Doig were as follows:

[The link to father is based on age, location, and a variation of the Scottish naming custom.]

In 1841 James Smith (78 Ayr) was a nursery man residing at Monkwook Grove, Maybole, Ayr with his wife Elizabeth (76 Ayr) and two agricultural laborers.

Children of Elizabeth Doig and James Smith were as follows:

David was illegitimate. The Kirkmichael parish record reads: David natural son to David Doig in Mayboll born Sept 19th baptized 21st St by the Revd Mr John Ramsay Minr of Tharham(?).

The link to family is based on age at death, location, a first son named David, and that his father could have put him in good stead financially.

The first marriage is uncertain and based on age and location.

David was admitted as Burgess and Guild Brethren in Glasgow in 1816; at the time he was a merchant and manufacturer living at 459 Gallowgate, Glasgow. In the 1820 Glasgow Directory he is listed as a manufacturer at 7 St. Andrew Square, Glasgow. Shortly after he moved to Rothsay, Bute where he owned the Power Loom Manufactory of Rothsay. He owned an 11-ton open boat called the 'Rhudanan' of Rothesay.

Glasgow Herald - Monday 22 May 1826 - NOTICE

To the Creditors of the late DAVID DOIG, Power Loom Cloth Manufacturer in Rothesay. THE Executrix hereby intimates to all having claims To the Estate of the late DAVID DOIG, that statements, with affidavits to the verity thereof; must be lodged with Mr. Wm. Ferguson, 107, Nelson Street, Glasgow, on or before the 30th day of June next. All who are indebted to the said Estate are also requested to make immediate payment to the said Wm. Ferguson, to prevent legal measures being adopted against them. 20th May, 1826.

David died at age 42. His testament and codicils were recorded 14 Apr 1826, 15 June 1826, and 15 Sept 1828 in the Rothesay Sheriff Court. In his testament dative his relict Christian Ferguson or Doig was appointed executrix, with cautiouners William Ferguson (father-in-law) and Charles MacKinley (brother-in-law). The value of his estate was £5,455.

MARRIAGE:

David was listed as a weaver and both from Glasgow.

MARRIAGE:

David and Christian were married on a contract dated 1 June 1815.

MARRIAGE:

David was listed as a weaver and both from Glasgow.

In 1841 Christian was a power-loom weaver in a cotton factory residing on the East side of High Street, Rothesay, Bute with her children Christian, William, and Elizabeth and a servant Jean Duncan (25 Bute). In 1851 she lived in Rothesay with children David, William, and Elizabeth.

'Rothesay, May 13, 1848. The copartnership between the Subscribers, Mrs. Christian Doig and John Robertson, Power Loom Cloth Manufacturers in Rothesay, Sole Partners of the Company carrying on Business as Power Loom Cloth Manufacturers there, under the firm of Doig & Company, was Dissolved, by expirary of their Contract of Copartnership, on the 29th day of April, 1848. Signed and witnessed by James Dean and Archibald Rodger.' and following annoucement by Christian Doig, 'Referring to the above Notice of Dissolution, I beg leave to intimate that the Business will be carried on as hitherto, under the firm of Doig & Co.' [Glasgow Herald (Glasgow, Scotland), Monday, May 29, 1848; Issue 4730.]

Christina's testament was recorded 30 Dec 1861 in the Rothesay Sheriff Court.

MARRIAGE:

David and Christian were married on a contract dated 1 June 1815.

Children of David Doig and Christian (Christina) Ferguson were as follows:

[The link to father is based on approx. age, location, and a second son named David.]

Jean died at age 46. Her death is given in the Maybole parish record as 6 March 1836. Her testament was recorded 19 Apr 1836 in the Ayr Sheriff Court Inventories.

Inventory of Umquale Mrs. Jean Doig or Train, Ayr (pages 668-9)

At Ayr the nineteenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and thirty six years compeared Walter Andrews writer in Maybole who produced inventory of the personal estate of the deceased Jean Doig or Train after designed and of which inventory the tenor follows - Inventory of the personal estate and effects of Jean Doig residing in Maybole widow of the deceased William Train surgeon there who died on the seventh day of March eighteen hundred and thirty six, given up by Alexander McAdam Esquire residing in Castlehill Executor dative of the deceased.

1st The deceased's household furniture valued by Thomas Bell conform to inventory and appraisement dated 11 March 1836 --- 52. 13. 9.

2nd Half year rent of a house occupied by Thomas McMurtrie due at Whitsunday 1836 --- 1. 0. 0.

3rd Years rent of a house occupied by Hugh Hannay due at Whitsunday 1836 --- 1. 10. 0.

4. Debts due as follows viz:

John Doig in Doularg --- £4. 0. 0.

John or James Dryman Humeston Ochiltree --- 4. 0. 8.

5. A silver watch chain and seals in the possession of Samuel Barr dancing master worth £5 but on which no value can be put as it is not likely to be recovered.

6. Borrowed money due by Robert Thomson wright Greenock Five pounds but on which no value can be put.

Total --- £63. 3. 9.

Signed Alexr McAdam Will Eaton --- At Ayr the nineteenth day of April eighteen hundred and thirty six in presence of William Eaton Esquire Commissary Depute of Ayrshire compeared Alexander McAdam Esquire residing in Castlehill who being solemnly sworn and examined depones that Jean Doig or Train widow of the deceased William Train surgeon in Maybole died intestate on the seventh day of March eighteen hundred and thirty six that the Deponent is about to enter upon the session and management of her personal or moveable estate as Executor qua nearest in kin that the Deponent knows of no settlement or other writing left by the deceased relative to the disposal of her personal estate or effects or any part of them that the foregoing inventory which is signed by the Deponent and the said Commissary as relative hereto is a full and complete inventory of the personal estate and effects of the said deceased wherein situated and belonging or due beneficially to the deceased at the time of her death in so far as the same has come to the Deponent's knowledge and that the value of the said estate situated in Scotland is of the value of Sixty three pounds three shillings and nine pence and under the value of One hundred pounds all of which is truth as the Deponent shall answer to God.

Signed Alexr McAdam Will Eaton.

Written by Gavin McKerrow Collated by Thos. Eaton [Original document HERE]

MARRIAGE:

both were listed from Maybole Parish.

He was know as Alexander McAdam, Esquire of Grimmet.

Note: a Mrs. McAdam, age 60, died on 3 May 1851 in Maybole. She was not Jean Doig as her death was recorded as Mrs. Train, age 46 in 1836.

William was a surgeon. He died at age 36. The Inventory of his estate was recorded 6 May 1830 in Ayr.

MARRIAGE:

both were listed from Maybole Parish.

Children of Jean (Jane) Doig and Alexander McAdam were as follows:

Hugh Doig of Southfield served Heir of Provision General to Hugh Hutchison of Southfield, recorded 26 June 1813 at Edinburgh (Film #0231350). Translation from the Latin: 'This enquiry is called in the Court of the Vice-mayor of Edinburgh, this 30th day of May 1813, in the presence of (long list of names) signatories all Solicitors at Law. Of Doig Hutchison herein named the major party between the late Hugo Hutchison, gentleman of Southfield, who died in Faith and Peace without heirs of his body, and which Hugo Doig Hutchison, gentleman of Southfield designated Hugo Doig, eldest son of David Doig of the Parish of Maybole and Jean Hutchison [wife of David Doig], the legitimate and proper heir of the general properties at the word of Hugo Hutchison, given in two dispositions by him executed on 30th October 1795, and recorded in the Book of Sessions 24 May 1813, by which the said Hugo Hutchison in the event of dying without legitimate heirs of his body bequeaths lands and properties to the said Hugo Doig Hutchison and his heirs aforementioned, and that this Hugo Doig Hutchison is of legal age.

Sealed in this testimonial of which the said Enquiry between the parties in brief. Adam Roland, clerk to the Vice-Mayor at Edinburgh in the month and year of Our Lord undersigned. 26 June 1813.'

Hugh appears to have taken the surname Hutchison as appears in his daughter's surname and later documents.

Hugh's sister Anne named her first child Hugh Doig Hutchison McCrorie in 1816, in memorium.

The inventory of Hugh Doig Hutchison, Esquire of Southfield, was recorded 21 June 1816 in the Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories (5 pages).

K. E. Ingram, 'Manuscript Sources for the History of the West Indies, with Special Reference to Jamaica,' U. of West Indies Press, Page 96: 0546, Ramsay, David, Letter from David Ramsay to David Stewart, jr., W.S., Edinburgh, concerning Mr. William Hutchison's disposal of certain Negros in Jamaica; Edinburgh, Jan. 9, 1817, L.S., 2ff. 4to. MS.696 - Ramsay writes on the direction of Mr. William Niven to inform that Mrs. Hutchison had died in Jamaica and had liberated some Negros 'the fee of which belonged to the late Mr. Hugh Hutchison and afterwards to Mr. Doig Hutchison'. Mr. Niven wishes to ascertain whether or not they may be recovered for the benefit of Mr. Doig Hutchison's daughter.

Place of death uncertain. May have been in Scotland, England, or Jamaica.

MARRIAGE:

'The Scotls Magazine,' 1 July 1815:

5. At Kirtleton, Hugh Doig Hutchison, Esq. of Southfield, to Miss Charlotte Hughes Niven, daughter of David Niven, Esq., Kirkleton, Dumfries-shire.

Register of Sasines 1181 Dumfries 15 Aug 1826

CHARLOTTE HUGHES NIVEN Seized

Disp. by David Niven

Register of Sasines 1329 Dumfries

Trustees of Charlotte Hughes Niven HUTCHISON of Kirtleton, daughter of David Niven of Kirtleton

Register of Sasines 1604 Dumfries 22 Sep 1828

JOHN BELL of Dunnabie Seized 15 Sep 1828, - in the £4 land of KIRTLETOWN and POCKINEFOOT,

MARRIAGE:

'The Scotls Magazine,' 1 July 1815:

5. At Kirtleton, Hugh Doig Hutchison, Esq. of Southfield, to Miss Charlotte Hughes Niven, daughter of David Niven, Esq., Kirkleton, Dumfries-shire.

Children of Hugh Doig Esq. and Charlotte Hughes Niven were as follows:

1817, July 9 - Extracted Processes, National Archives of Scotland, CS32/15/47

Decreet in absence, David Stewart, junior, WS, as factor on the estates of the deceased Hugh Doig Hutchison v John Doig.

John appears to have left home before his father's death in 1819. He was a weapons merchant. He arrived in Carabobo, Venezuela in 1820, then moving on to Columbia. He soon moved to Lambayeque, Peru where he lived until his death.

One family document mentions: 'John Doig el Corsario y su hermano William que se va a Chile' which translates 'John Doig the Privateer and his brother William who goes away to Chile.' The story goes that John served the Peruvian Navy in their bid for freedom from Spain, and he commanded a privately owned warship that preyed on the commercial shipping or warships of Spain.

See baptism document of son Juan Patricio Doig-Barona for John's signature.

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'The Lost Treasure of the El Pensamiento,' by Jim Gilchrist in 'The Scotsman' dated 24 Dec 2003.

The story starts with a ghost ship, a vessel which eludes the usual shipping registers, but which may have slipped into the port of Leith on Christmas Eve, 1803 ... Or it may have been 1802 ... Or not at all. Little is certain in the story of the El Pensamiento, which is alleged to have docked at Leith two centuries ago, low in the water with an improbably vast fortune in Inca treasure, pillaged from a cave in the mountains of what is now Ecuador. It is a mystery which reaches through time and across the world, from the slaughter visited on the Incas by the conquistadores in the 1530s to Napoleonic Europe, from the mountain wilderness of the Altiplano to the Edinburgh banking establishment, from a murdered Inca emperor to an exiled Bourbon prince.

It is tempting to imagine the vessel entering harbour rather like the sinister Black Pearl in Pirates of the Caribbean. And in truth, our vessel may seem of little more substance than that movie's ship of phantoms. However, once it tied up, if it tied up, at Leith, an impossible fortune in gold and silver bullion and precious stones - £460 million worth, the story goes - is said to have been transported, in 90 wicker baskets, to the Royal Bank of Scotland and deposited there by a Sir Francis Mollison or Mollinson.

The treasure had been dispatched from Lambayeque, Peru, by a Spanish corregidor or colonial official, Antonio Pástor y Marin de Segura, Marques de Llosa. The vessel was jointly commanded by an American, John Fanning, and a Scot, John Doig or Doigg.

You're unlikely to find any of the above documented in Scottish harbour records or banking ledgers, although the names de Segura, Fanning and Doig ring true. Fast-forward some 160 years, however, and something very strange - and very much documented - starts to happen. In October, 1965, the Royal Bank of Scotland received the first of a deluge of claims on the 'treasure', on behalf of members of the Pástor family, descendents of de Segura, under the terms of what they claimed to be a fifth-generation will, left by the Marques, who died in 1804, and his second wife, Narcisa Martinez de Tejada y Oraye.

Bewildered bankers found themselves dealing with solicitors, with South American banks and with the Grand Lodge of Scotland (enquiring on behalf of its Masonic counterpart in Peru), while the Peruvian consul in Glasgow visited the Royal Bank's head office at St Andrews Square. There was an enquiry from the Procurator Fiscal for Edinburgh, concerning an action being raised by a Señora de Caceres of Lima, Peru, claiming '598 large merchant bags which were dispatched from Lima, Peru, in 1803 by the ship El Pensamiento under Captains J Fanning and J Doigg to the Royal Bank of Scotland and delivery entrusted to Castillo la Rosa'.

A Royal Bank executive, Robert Forbes, now long retired, went through all the bank's strongrooms in Edinburgh and Glasgow. He found nothing.

In a report in 1966, Forbes, who was shown a copy of the Pástor testament - but, noticeably, no receipt - by one enquiring diplomat wrote: 'Our records throw no light on the story. Safe custody books only go back to 1860 and we are, therefore, unable to determine whether or not any packages were ever deposited with us by the parties concerned and subsequently uplifted.'

Meanwhile, half a world away, newspapers carried headlines about 'un fabuloso tesoro' which was going to make certain families very rich indeed. Ecuador's Ultimas Noticias, for instance, reported how Señora Violeta Aguilar de Caceres had told the Peruvian Press that she possessed 'documents of guarantee of the Bank of Scotland that confirm deposits valued at £460 million sterling'.

Confusion reigns, but nobody got rich. The story has entered into Royal Bank folklore, and the late James Gilhooley, a design engineer turned historian and freelance writer, undertook some serious research and in 1986 wrote an article about the treasure for the Royal Bank of Scotland Review.

First, though, that £460 million, which today's values would represent a mind-boggling £26.3 billion-plus. 'There's no way de Segura accumulated this sort of wealth unless he discovered Eldorado, Atlantis, The Valley of the Kings, etc, all on his own,' observes Iain Harrison of the Royal Bank's group communications department. However, Gilhooley reckoned there had been a misconstruing of the will's reference to French livres. The exchange rate at that time, he wrote, was 24 livres to the pound, making the treasure's worth nearer £20 million - still a tidy £1.1 billion by today's values.

Gilhooley, who was almost certainly planning a book about the affair but died two years ago, postulated an intriguing sequence of conspiracies. Pointing to Spanish detailed records of de Segura, he argued that the hostilities between Britain and France and Spain had halted the flow of treasure ships from South America to Spain, with a five-year bottleneck of riches awaiting shipment. In 1802, the Treaty of Amiens gave a short-lived breathing space which would allow such traffic, while at the same time Napoleon demanded that Spain comply with earlier treaties and pay France a hefty 'war contribution' which was in effect protection money. The envoy chosen for this was one Comte Louis Philippe de Ségur, who may well have shared a Basque country background as well as an aristocratic family name with de Segura.

Spain looked to the Americas, and very possibly to de Segura, for the necessary bullion. Gilhooley believed that the corregidor was in a position to 'hijack' a shipment of treasure, at least partly for himself, leaving it to a fifth generation either because he had fallen out with his immediate family or perhaps putting it beyond any retribution, Napoleonic or otherwise.

The Basques and the Scots both maintained a significant mercantile presence in the Caribbean and the Royal Bank was well known in the Atlantic trading world. However, even if the treasure had set sail from Peru on a ship named El Pensamiento, it would have to be unloaded and carted across the pre-canal Isthmus of Panama and transferred to a different vessel. Also, because of the hostilities, ships sailing from Spanish colonies may well have given false information on their clearance papers and manifests, or sailed under assumed names and flags.

The Doigs and Fannings were both well-known seafaring dynasties, the Fannings from Stonington, Connecticut (one of them sailed with the Scots-born American naval hero John Paul Jones), while the Doigs were well-known in the Scottish north-east mercantile (and smuggling) town of Montrose. Gilhooley identified a John Doig from there who was active in the Caribbean, while enquiries by The Scotsman revealed another branch of the family, from Ayrshire, to be much concerned with Peru - including a John Doig who was a noted privateer, based in Lambayeque, but whose birth in 1792 makes him too young to figure in our tale.

The Francis Mollison or Mollinson who was supposed to deposit the treasure in Edinburgh was, Gilhooley claimed, a pseudonym for Comte Francois Mollien, a leading French banker who was a member of the same masonic lodge in Paris as the de Segur family (and John Paul Jones).

But if the treasure never reached the Edinburgh bank, where did it go? Gilhooley points to a sudden escalation in the fortunes of the ousted French Bourbon dynasty. For in residence at the Palace of Holyroodhouse, at the beginning of the 19th century, was one Charles Philippe, Compte d'Artois, who would become the last Bourbon king of France, Charles X.

Seeking anything more concrete, we must look to South America - but via Dunbar and the home of Stan Hall, an Edinburgh-born engineer who became so hooked on what he regards as 'the missing pages' of South America's prehistory that he lived in Ecuador for many years.

'Treasures are made to frustrate people,' he remarks, and introduces into the story a tantalising document known as the Derrotero, a document presented to King Carlos IV of Spain by a man named Valverde before his death in 1792, which gave directions established by another, earlier Valverde, to a vast cache of Inca treasure, reputedly hidden in a cave in Ecuador's wild Llanganati region. It is said to have been dispatched there by Ruminahui, one of Atahualpa's generals, after the Inca leader had been baptised then strangled by the good Christian invaders of his country. De Segura, he says, would have used the Derrotero in obtaining his treasure.

Hall, 67, is no stranger to caves: in fact he has one named after him, one of the mysterious Tayos caves to which he led a British-Ecuadorian expedition in 1976, which included as patron and member the astronaut and moonwalker Neil Armstrong. The treasure of the Llanganti he regards as a side-issue, if an intriguing one, to his real interest, the ancient civilisations of South America, but believes the treasure almost certainly exists - and that some of it may have come to Scotland.

So far as its subsequent disappearance, he believes 'the defining hand' could be the eminent Scots banker Thomas Coutts, another Montrose man, who may well have known Doig, and certainly Mollien. Coutts, says Hall, became banker to George III - and was known to assist the Bourbons. Hall, as did Gilhooley and other researchers, points to a 'mysterious absence' of Leith cargo manifests for the years 1795-1805, and suggests that as Coutts is thought to have disposed of George lll's financial ledgers after the monarch's death ... well, perhaps he turned his attention to cargo manifests.

In Ecuador, countless explorers have tried to find that Llanganati cave, sometimes with fatal consequences, while following copies of the Derrotero (which Hall believes to have been altered to confuse treasure-hunters), along with a map of the Llanganati region, made in 1827 by a pharmacologist, Atanasio Guzman, who himself perished in the area.

That didn't stop the veteran Scottish mountain man, Hamish MacInnes, from making three trips to the Llanganati, also equipped with the Derrotero and the Guzman map. MacInnes also made fruitless enquiries about the El Pensamiento and has tried, so far without success, to trace the Spanish royal warrant which would have authorised the original expedition into the Llanganati to procure the treasure, ostensibly for Spain but also for de Segura.

You won't find MacInnes's Glencoe home crammed with Inca gold - he didn't find any, but he does believe that Atahualpa's riches may well lie within the Llanganti. In his book Beyond the Ranges, he expresses his belief that the Valverde Derrotero is genuine, however, he warns that the Llanganati, high on the Altiplano and near the Equator, is unforgiving country: 'Not a place for a bucket-and-spade visit.'

But what about those who believed they were the rightful inheritors of de Segura's treasure? In Quito, capital of Ecuador, an old friend of Hall's, Dr Michel Merlyn spoke last week to Cesar and Hector Pástor, the sons of Hector Plaza Salvador, who directed the family committee formed to make the claims in 1965. 'They said they didn't feel cheated or enraged at all,' recounts Merlyn. 'Most of the Pástors, the two of them included, were not disillusioned, although some were, of course. 'They described the whole affair as an experiencia simpática - an interesting and funny experience. They haven't been investigating since the 1965-1966 episode, but I'm sure they are still interested.' But the story of the lost Pástor millions won't lie down and die. Another story in El Comercio in May 1965 added a further, intriguing element by recounting how, as far back as 1686, an infamous pirate, Eduardo David, plundered the mansion of the Obaya family in Lambeyeque, stealing, among other things, 598 bags or containers of gold and silver.

Then, as this article was going to press, a Peruvian woman living in Edinburgh, who had helped MacInnes translate the Llanganati documents, told me her version, which mentioned Doig and Fanning, and a fast British ship laden with treasure, but had one of the partners taking his third of the treasure to France - where it was used in the purchase of Louisiana. And, she claimed, the treaure was still lying in the Royal Bank: 'But the descendents of the man who put it there cannot prove they are his real descendents, because in Peru there was a fire in the registry office.'

So, amid blazing documents and ricocheting conspiracy theories, the lost treasure of the El Pensamiento sails into the sunset - and seems likely to stay there, unless someone locates some vital documents, or a certain cave ...

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The following article may refer to John Doig and/or his brother William:

The Cocos Island Pirates: Excerpt from book 'Romance of the Sea,' (National Geographic Society, Washington: 1981) chapter 'Fortunes from the Spaniards,' page 57-58:

The story of the Cocos Island treasure dump begins about the year 1818 when a British pirate, Bennet Graham, or Benito Bonita as he preferred to call himself, brought the loot from Peruvian churches and merchant ships to be buried on Cocos Island until he could collect it later. It is fairly certain that more wealth was added to this dump later.

With Bonita was William Thompson, who turned up at Cocos Island again in 1824. The Spaniards had managed to get away much of their treasure from Lima when Peru was in revolt against the rule of Spain. Lord Cochrane, then in command of the Chilean Navy and giving help to Peru, went to the port of Callao, to which the treasure had gone, and demanded two-thirds of the money with which to pay his men. On the scene appeared Thompson, now in command of a trading brig 'Mary Read.' He arranged to take off some of the Spanish grandees with their enormous fortune and avoid Lord Cochrane's attentions. What had happened to Bennet Graham nobody apparently knew. It may be that William Thompson knew, but, if he did, he certainly never revealed anything.

As soon as the 'Mary Read,' with the escaping Spaniards and their wealth, was well clear of the port the helpful Captain Thomson killed the Spaniards and flung them overboard, then set sail for Cocos Island to bury his share of this additional loot. Unfortunately it was many years before Thompson had a chance of returning to collect his vast wealth. When he did at last manage the return voyage he took a partner with him and discovered that both the treasure of Bonita (Graham) and Thompson's own were untouched. It was too risky to take away just then and Thompson and his partner, Doig, made careful preparations for another voyage.

Thompson died without ever seeing his treasure again, but in due course some years later, his partner, Doig, with his son, went out to Cocos once more, all prepared to bring home their great fortune. Unfortunately a landslide had occurred and made the recovery of the treasure a serious engineering task. They were totally unprepared for anything of that sort and had to return home to consider their plans.

The elder Doig died and the son never had a chance of going out again, but he left clear directions regarding the location of the treasure hoards. Many expeditions have been made and a few coins and ornaments have been found in circumstances which certainly help to confirm the story. Most of the seekers, however, have done just as much to obliterate helpful landmarks as have the storms and natural changes through the long years which have elapsed since Thompson buried his loot.

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The story is also told somewhat differently with the name BOAG instead of DOIG. He is identified elsewhere as Capt. William Boag. The following version is found at http://www.detecting.org.uk/html/Treasure_of_Cocos_Island.html.

The Treasure of Cocos Island

350 miles west of Costa Rica lies the tiny and uninhabited Cocos Island. It is believed that a vast treasure was hidden here in 1821 by the mutinous crew of the Mary Dear (or Mary Deare, depending on source), a British ship chartered to move gold, silver and jewels from the churches of Lima, Peru to the safety of Spain.

Shortly after leaving the port of Callao, the gold hungry crew of the Mary Dear murdered the six soldiers charged with guarding the treasure, seized control of ship and sailed to Cocos Island where, it is said, they hid the treasure in a cave and then set sail for Panama. Upon arriving in Panama the mutineers were arrested, most of the crew were executed, but three were spared after promising the Spanish authorities that they would assist in the recovery of the treasure.

Two of the three were taken to Cocos by a detachment of soldiers, soon after arriving, the two men escaped from their captors into the dense jungle. The soldiers, unable to locate the mutineers and believing that the two men would be unable to escape the island, returned to Panama.

A year later, the two men were picked up by a passing ship and taken to Costa Rica.

One of the two passed on the location of the treasure, in the form of a map, to a man named John Keating. Keating, with the help of the third mutineer, a man named Boag, later located the treasure on the island but the crew of the ship that had taken them to Cocos demanded a share, facing a mutiny, Keating and Boag hid in the jungle until the crew gave up searching for them and sailed away.

After an unknown period, Keating was picked up from the island by a passing ship and claimed that Boag had drowned, although he would later say that he had murdered him and left his body in the cave with the treasure.

Before his death in 1882, Keating passed the Cocos secret on to three people (why he did not go back for the bulk of the treasure himself is not clear), his wife, Fred Hackett and Nicholas Fitzgerald.

Keating's widow and Fred Hackett teamed up and headed to Cocos - they found nothing. The third man, Nicholas Fitzgerald, did not go in search of the treasure but passed the map Keating had given him to Admiral Henry Palliser - who also found nothing.

It has been claimed that frequent earthquakes on the island have destroyed vital landmarks necessary to accurately interpret the clues on the map.

Many have gone in search of the Cocos Treasure, even members of Jacques Cousteau's crew tried their luck with a metal detector during a visit to film the island and its reefs, but as far as we know, all who have searched for it have come back empty handed.

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To add to the mystery, there is an excavation by Gerald Crowley in 2006 of a sunken ship off a small island near Australia. The ship is thought to be, variously spelled, the Peruvian, Peruana, or Pervano. A French Lefaucheux pistol patented in 1845 was recovered, and by X-Ray the serial number was read, less the last digit. From the French records, of the ten possible owners, four may have owned this specific pistol, one being William Doig.

It has been reported that John married Mrs. Barahona, Countess of Barenhein in Columbia in 1823. It appears that she was actually from Lambayeque, Peru, and they were not married.

Children of John Doig and Mercedes Astigarraga were as follows:

Ann Doig or McCrorie is mentioned in the will of her mother as a child of David Doig.

In 1851 Ann MacCrorie was the mother with the family of her son John at Attiguin, Maybole, Ayr. In 1871 Ann Doig or Macrorie was an annuitant at Havelock Ho, Miller Road, Ayr, Ayr with children Anne and William, a servant, and a visitor Jessie A. Cunningham (24 England).

Witness on Anna's death certificate was her son William.

[He may be the John born 15 Jan 1789 in Maybole, Ayr, son of Gilbert McCrorie and Margaret McMurtie.]

In 1841 John farmed in Attiquin, Maybole with his wife Anna and children Hugh, Margaret, John, Jean, Janet, Agnes, Charlotte?, Anna, and William, and Robert Gillespie and Elizabeth Munn.

Children of Ann Campbell Doig and John McCrorie were as follows:

In 1841 Jean Steel lived at Nursery, Ayr with her children Thomas and Elizabeth and John Smith (45 Ayr). In 1851 Jane Steele lived at Newton Terrace, Newton on Ayr with her children Thomas (shipping agent) and Eliza, her sister Elizabeth Smith, and lodger and contendler of customs Robert Scott (37 England).

Children of Jean (Jane) Smith and John Alexander Steel were as follows:

MARRIAGE:

They were married by the Rev. Robert Elder. They pledged marriage on 30 July 1847 in Campsie, Stirling. Christaina was listed from the parish of Rothesay, the daughter of David Doig. Alexander was listed from Campsie. Witnesses were James McNab and Alexander McNab.

In 1851 Alexander was a block calico printer residing at Ruybam Cottage, Campsie, Stirling with his wife Christina and son James. In 1861 he was a calico printer at Lillyburn Cottage, Camplie wiht 1 servant. In 1871 he lived at Lillyburn Cottage with son James, nieces Jessie McNab, and Kate McNab, and 2 servants. In 1881 Alexander was a calico printer residing Lillyburn House, Campsie with his second wife Mary, unmarried son James (master calico printer) and Charles (master calico printer), visitors Janet Hunt (widow and annuitant, 60 Rothesay) and Lydia Hunt (unmarried annuitant, 68 England), and 4 servants.

Notes on Hunt visitors:

Janet Duncan Hunt was a sister of Mary Duncan McNab, and Lydia Hunt was Janet's sister-in-law.

Janet, Mary and their sister Margaret Duncan were school mistresses, in England.

Lydia and her sisters Mary and Sarah Ellen were also school mistresses, in England.

Lydia Hunt and Mary Duncan McNab taught together at Gateacre School near Liverpool.

Lydia's nephew, John Hunt, went into business with Mary's husband, Alexander McNab.

MARRIAGE:

They were married by the Rev. Robert Elder. They pledged marriage on 30 July 1847 in Campsie, Stirling. Christaina was listed from the parish of Rothesay, the daughter of David Doig. Alexander was listed from Campsie. Witnesses were James McNab and Alexander McNab.

Children of Christian (Christina) Doig and Alexander McNab were as follows:

Elizabeth graduated from Aberdeen College.

Witness to Elizabeth's death certificate was her son D. D. Murdoch of Hartington Lawn, Eastbourne, England.

In 1851 John was minister of the Free Manse of Grange with his sisters Jannet, Jane, and Isabella, and a servant. In 1861 John was Minister Of Free Church Of Grange and A. M. of Kings College, Aberdeen residing at the Free Manse, Grange, Banff with his wife Elizabeth, sons John and David, and several others. In 1881 the Rev. John Murdoch was minister and schoolmaster at Wallington College, Harcourt Road, Beddington, Surrey, England. At home were his wife Elizabeth, children John B. (Graduate of Aberdeen University and commercial clerk), David D. (Undergraduate of Cambridge University and India civil servant), Christina D. (scholar), and 1 assistant teacher, 8 students, and 1 general servant.

Children of Elizabeth Doig and Rev. John Murdoch were as follows:

[Alexander is not listed in the IGI but appears as closest kin on the Inventory of his mother Jean Doig.]

An Alexander McAdam married Sarah Kennedy on 1 Apr 1832 at Maybole. In 1841 Alexander farmed at Castlehill, Maybole, Ayr with his children Alexander and Marion, and Ann and Mary Kennedy, and others.

Alexander's inventory of his estate was recorded 4 Mar 1845 at Ayr.

Children of Alexander McAdam and Sarah Kennedy were as follows:

The Rev. Alexander Bruce Todd, arrived on the 1st of June, 1859. He had been a teacher in St. Andrews, and afterwards missionary in Jamaica. Before coming to Otago he had been labouring with much acceptance in connection with the Free Church at Cowdenbeath, in Fifeshire. He was cordially recommended by the Colonial Committee of the Free Church, and came out, as their letter ran, 'with the view of being appointed to any of the vacant stations within the bounds that may appear to the Presbytery most suitable.' At a congregational meeting held in Tokomairiro on the 14th of June, it was unanimously agreed to invite him to be their minister, and to petition the Presbytery to regard their invitation a« a true call. This was done, and Mr. Todd was inducted on Sabbath, the 7th July, 1859. Mr. Bannerman presided on the occasion, and preached on the Transfiguration of Christ, from Luke ix., 28-37. In tne Divine power whereby that transfiguration was wrought, Mr. Todd began and carried on for about ten years a ministry that was highly prized by the people and fruitful of lasting good. [Fifty years syne: a jubilee memorial of the Presbyterian Church of Otago, by James Chisholm, 1898]

Obituary - Oamaru Mail, 18 Aug 1903:

DEATH OF THE REV. A. B. TODD

By Telegraph, Duneden, August 18. The Rev. A. B. Todd, Presbyterian minister, died this morning, aged 82 years. The Rev. Alexander Bruce Todd was born in the ancient city of St. Andrews, Scotland, on the 1st. February, 1821, and was educated at the school and college of his native town. His father was in business, and on leaving school he accepted a mercantile vocation. But there was another destiny in store for him. As a convert of William Burns in the revival of 1839, he resolved to adopt a ministerial career, and entered upon a course of .study to that end. Having devoted a year to study at Si. Andrews' University, ill-health put a temporary stop to his studies, and he went, to Jamaica, where he had charge of the Falmouth Academy for three years, and he was wont to refer to his sojourn there, as providing him with a most interesting sphere of labor. Returning to Scotland, he resumed and finished his arts curriculum at the University of Edinburgh, and thereafter attended the Theological College of the Free Church. He was licensed to preach by the Free Church Presbytery of St. Andrews in the year 1855. As a probationer he labored for a year among the miners of Cowdenbeath, Forfarshire, and for several months at Kirkoswald, Ayrshire. He was ordained to the office of the ministry in Maybole, Ayrshire, in 1858, and the same year he married Miss Train, of Dailly, the daughter of Dr Train, a representative of an old Ayrshire family. On the 1st January, 1859, Mr and Mrs Todd set sail for New Zealand, with Otago as their destination. The Mariner, the ship by which they were passengers, had on board a number of German immigrants, who came out to a German settlement in the Nelson province, and the vessel being delayed at Nelson for a month in consequence, it was not. till June, 1859, that they arrived in Dunedin. He was the fifth Presbyterian minister who arrived in the colony, being preceded by the Revs. Thos. Burns, W. Will, W. Bannerman, and Dr Stuart. Mr Todd was cordially recommended by the Colonial Committee of the Free Church. At the time of his arrival in Dunedin the members of the Tokomairiro congregation were very anxious to secure a good man, and at a meeting held in Tokomairiro on the 14th June, 1859, it was unanimously resolved to invite Mr Todd to be the minister and to petition the Presbytery to regard their invitation as a true call. This was done, and the deceased was inducted on the 7th July, 1859, the Rev. W. Bannerman presiding. He labored in the Tokomairiro charge for ten years, and zealously and faithfully carried on the work. The field of his labors was an extended one, and it is recorded that he was the first minister who preached to the miners in Gabriel's Gully. In 1869, the Rev. Mr Todd accepted a call, to St. Paul's, Oamaru. At that time churches were few and far between, and Mr Todd's ministrations extended over a large area in which successful churches have since been established. For many years he paid periodical visits to the outlying posts of his extensive charge, travelling away up the Waitaki and in other directions when the means of transit were still in the primitive stage. Thus lie added still further to the experience already gained in the south of the difficulties to be encountered by a minister of the gospel who desired to discharge to the full hit; high mission in a new and sparsely peopled land. At the time of his coming here St. Paul's Church was not as it is now. Only part of the handsome structure had been erected, and it was not until 1875 that it was completed. How Presbyterianism flourished under the guiding hand of the Rev. Mr Todd the existence of many nourishing churches to-day is witness. For a quarter of a century he laborred zealously and well, but in 1894 he intimated to the congregation his intention of retiring on the score of failing health, and at the close of the year his retirement fook effect. The reverend gentleman was, however, honored by being accorded the position of senior minister of St. Paul's; everyone knows it was a long time before the congregation came to a sufficiently unanimous mind to ensure the appointment of a successor, and so Mr Todd remained in close touch with, its affairs for many months. When, however, the severance came at last, the session on the 21st November adopted the following minute, which speaks for itself of the regard in which the retiring pastor was held:-'The Session desire to place- on record their high appreciation of the long and faithful services of their late minister, the Rev. A. B. Todd, during his lengthy pastorate of more than a quarter of a century. They also wish to recognise his valuable help during the eight months following his resignation. They express their sincere regret that failing health and advancing age. necessitate his retirement, from the charge, and hope lie may long be spared to enjoy God's best blessings with health, happiness, and prosperity spiritually and temporally during the remainder of his; days.' Some little time afterwards, the reverend gentleman, having in the meantime lost by death the life partner who had to him been in truth a loving helpmeet., resolved to take up his residence in Dunedin, and he was accorded a hearty public farewell. During his long career here Mr Todd took an active part in public projects designed to promote the welfare of the people. He was for many years actively associated with the Athenaeum, and had no small share in the work of laying the foundation of its success. He took a particularly active interest in educational matters, and served many years as a member of School Committee. His life in Duneden had not been one of leisured idleness. Though no longer a minister in active service he had found much good and acceptable work to do in visiting the sick mid sorrowing. This he continued with unremitting zeal until he could no longer get, about, and since then he carried on his self-imposed mission by means of letters designed to bring comfort and consolation. The reverend gentleman has left one daughter and four sons to mourn their loss, Miss Todd having been a. nurse to him during his illness. Of the sons the Rev. A. B. Todd is the Presbyterian minister at Geraldine; Mr William Todd is, we believe, assistant to the Rev. Mr Hewitson at Knox Church, Dunedin: Mr James Todd was for some time a, missionary in China, and afterwards was afterwards associated with the Moody Institute in America presided over by Dr Torrey, but has just returned to Dunedin ; and Mr David Todd is engaged in mercantile pursuits in Duneden.

Children of Agnes Hunter Train and Rev. Alexander Bruce Todd were as follows:

Charlotte was born about 4 months after her father's death.

See 1817 note on Jamaica slaves in her father's notes.

William Niven, a friend of Robert Burns and prominent citizen of Maybole, Ayr, died in 1844 and left much of his wealth, over £100,000, to his grand-niece Charlotte Niven Doig Hutchison.

The Edinburgh Gazette, Legal Notice, June 5, 1829:

In the Process of Ranking and Sale at the instance of Miss Charlotte Niven Hutchison of Southfield, only Child procreated at the marriage between the deceased Hugh Doig Hutchison of Southfield and the also now deceased Charlotte Hughes Niven of Kirtleton, who was afterwards Wife of John Bell, Esquire, of Dunnabie, and only Child and Apparent Heir of the said Charlotte Hughes Niven, with consent of William Niven, Esquire, of Kirkbride, Curator of the said Charlotte Niven Hutchison, and with concourse of His Majesty's Advocate for His Majesty's interest, against the Creditors of the said Charlotte Hughes Niven, the Lord Meadowbank, Ordinary, by interlocutor of date the 19th day of May current, assigned the 30th day of June next to the whole Creditors to produce all their claims, rights, and diligences compentent to them respectively against the common debtor or her estate, and that for the First Term; with certification as in a Reduction-Improbation. First Division - Mr. Bruce, Clerk. Wm. Stewart, W.S. Agent. May 25 1829.

The Edinburgh Gazette, 26 Feb 1830:

FIRST INTIMATION'SECOND TERM.

IN the Process of Ranking and Sale raised at the instance of Miss CHARLOTTE NIVEN HUTCHESON of Southfield, only Child procreated of the Marriage between the deceased Hugh Doig Hutcheson of Southfield, and the also now deceased Charlotte Hughes Niven of Kirtleton, who was afterwards Wife of John Bell, Esquire, of Dunnabie, and only Child and apparent heir of the said Charlotte Hughes Niven, with consent of William Niven, Esquire, of Kirkbride, Curator of the said Charlotte Niven Hutcheson, and with concourse of His Majesty's Advocate for His Majesty's interest, against the Creditors of the said Charlotte Hughes Niven, the Lord Meadowbank, Ordinary, by interlocutor of date the 23d day of February 1830, assigned ' the third sederunt-day of May next, to the whole Creditors of the Common Debtor, to produce their claims, rights, and diligences, competent to them respectively against the Common Debtor, or her estate, and whole vouchers thereof, and that for the SECOND TERM ; with certification, that what writs shall not be produced shali be held as false and forged, in so far as they may affect the Common Debtor's estate, and the interest of the Creditors therein, who have produced, or who shall produce, their rights and diligences affecting the same.'And ordains intimation or notice to be made to all parties concerned by the Minute-Book, and also by inserting this interlocutor in the Edinburgh Gazette weekly for three weeks successively next after this date.'

Mr. Bruce, Clerk. William Stewart, W. S. Common Agent.

In 1871 Charlotte Montgomery-Cunningham was a widow and landowner at Taplow Lodge, Taplow, Buckingham with visitor Catherine Ritchie (widow, 59 Scotland) and 7 servants.

MARRIAGE:

Thomas was listed from Dalrymple and Chalotte from Maybole.

'Aberdeen Journal,' 10 Oct 1832:

On the 1st current, at the house of William Niven, Esq., of Kirkbride, by the Rev. George Gray, Thomas Montgomery Cunninghame, Esq., second son of Sir James Montgomery Cunninghame, Baronet, of Corsehill and Kirktonholm, to Miss Charlotte Niven D. Hutcheson, of Southfield.

Thomas was the 8th Earl Montgomerie-Cunninghame of Corsehill. In 1841 Thomas lived on independent means at Barns Street, Ayr with his wife Charlotte, children William, Jessie, and Arthur, and servants Maryan Vaughn (22 England), Lilias Doeg (36 England), and Ann Hunter (38 Ayrshire). They later lived at Kirkbride. In 1861 Baronet Thomas Cunningham resided at 39 Princes Gate, St. Margaret Westminster, Middlesex, London with wife Charlotte, son William (Capt. Army), daughters Jessie and Eleanor, and 5 servants.

Stirling Observer, 28 Oct 1858: (and several other papers)

Her Majesty has been pleased to permit, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Thomas Montgomery Cunningham, Bart., whose resignation was notified in the Gazette on the 14th of September, to retain the honory rank of lieutenant-colonel.

The Examiner and London Review, 3 Sept 1870:

On Thursday the death of Sir Thomas Montgomery Cunningham was announced. The deceased, who was the eighth baronet, was born in 1808, and was for some time in the 94th Foot, and Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel of the Royal Ayrshire Rifles [receuved the post in 1855]. He is succeeded in his title and estate by his son James, Captain in the Rifle Brigade, who was born in 1834.

The Western Time (Exeter), 6 Dec 1870: (and several other papers)

The will Sir Thomas Montgomery Cunninghame, Bart., of Corshill, Ayrshire, Scotland, and 16, Princess terrace, Hyde Park, was proved in the London Court on the 19th ult. The personalty the United Kingdom was sworn under £14,000. He has left his real estates in Buckinghamshire to Lady Cuninghaine, his relict, for her life, and after her ladyship's decease to his right heirs. He leaves his leasehold estates in England, together with all other his personal estate, to her ladyship absolutely. Sir Thomas died August 30 last, aged 70. He was nobly descended,and claimed the extinct Earldom of Glencairn.

MARRIAGE:

Thomas was listed from Dalrymple and Chalotte from Maybole.

'Aberdeen Journal,' 10 Oct 1832:

On the 1st current, at the house of William Niven, Esq., of Kirkbride, by the Rev. George Gray, Thomas Montgomery Cunninghame, Esq., second son of Sir James Montgomery Cunninghame, Baronet, of Corsehill and Kirktonholm, to Miss Charlotte Niven D. Hutcheson, of Southfield.

Children of Lady Charlotte Niven Doig-Hutchison and Sir Thomas Montgomery Cunningham 8th Baronet of Corsehill were as follows:

Guillermo was a Notary Public in Lambayeque.

Children of Juan Guillermo Doig-Baraona and Manuela Barreto were as follows:

David lived in Lambayeque, Peru. He was buried in Cuartel San Ramon 10-A in the Presbitero Maestro Cemetery in Lima.

Children of Juan David Doig-Baraona and Carmen Buenaño were as follows:

Juan Patricio was confirmed a Catholic on 4 Nov 1885 at San Pedro Parish, Lambayeque; the Godfather of Confirmation was Adolfo Paredes.

Juan and his wife Maria were buried in the Mausoleo Familia Doig Buendia in El Angel Cemetery in Lambayeque.

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Children of Juan Patricio Doig-Baraona and Gregoria Lloc were as follows:

In 1861 Hugh was a ship broker at 25 Burnside Cot, Dundonald, Ayr with wife Emily, 3 children, and a servant.

Children of Hugh Doig Hutchison McCrorie and Emily Auber Frances Hutcheson were as follows:

In 1871 William was a procurator employing 3 clerks and living with his mother at Haverlock Road, Mille Road, Ayr, Ayr. In 1881 William was a solicitor residing at Miller Road, 1 Windsor Villas, Ayr, Ayr (page 25) with his wife Euphemia, children Winifred and Wilfred C., and servants Mary A. Montgomerie (housemaid), Margaret Davidson (cook), and Ellen McGowan (nurse). In 1901 he was a solicitor and bank agent at 13 S. Park Road, Ayr with Euphemia, son Wilfred (law clerk), ladies companion Isabella G. Todd (33 Falkirk, Stirling), and 2 servants.

Children of William McCrorie and Euphemia Macg. Auld were as follows:

In 1891 Charles was a calico printer at Clina Line, Kirkintilloch, Dumbarton wiht wife Marh, son Alexander, and 3 servants - a maid, a cook, and a nurse.

Children of Charles McNab and Mary C. (---) were as follows:

David was educated at Aberdeen University. He was admitted at King's, Cambridge University on 7 Oct 1880. He was appointed to the I.C.S in 1880, served in Madras as Assistant Collector and Magistrate in 1882, and head Assistant in 1890. David became Deputy Commissioner of Salt and Revenue (S. Division), in 1894, Sub Collector and Joint Magistrate in 1896, Collector and Magistrate in 1897, and District and Sessions Judge in 1905. He retired in Nov 1908. (Kings' Coll. Reg; I.C.S. Lists.)

David and Hannah had children. In 1908 they lived at Hartington Lawn, Eastbourne, England. They also lived in Hampshire, England. In 1911 he was an India civil service pensioner at 14 Grassington Road, St. Fillans, Eastbourne with Hannah, daughter Maisie, niece Agnes E. Kirkman (18 Auckland, NZ), a visitor, and 2 servants; they reported being married 15 years with only one child.

Murdoch David Doig of Rosemount Private Hotel Mount Ephraim Tunbridge Wells, died 12 November 1951 Probate London 15 January to David Luke Vernon Hanson, solicior. Effects L4311 18s.

Children of David Doig Murdoch and Hannah Isabel Mary Mullaby were as follows:

In 1861 William was a Captain in the Army. In 1871 he was a Major on half pay, the son-in-law of Edward B. Hartopp at Little Dalby Hall, Little Dalby Leicestershire, England along with wife Elizabeth, daughter Edith, and many others. In 1881 he was a Baronet landowner at Glenmoor, Crosshill, Kirkmichael, Ayr with Elizabeth, children Edith, Violet, Thomas, and Edward, and 10 visitors and workers.

Dumfries and Galloway Standard, 27 Dec 1854:

Lieutenant Cunninghame honourably mentioned in Lord Raglan's dispatch for the distinguished part he took in the gallant encounter of the 21st ultimo, is the son of Sir Thomas Montgomery Cunninghame, Baronet of Corsehill, & c., in the county of Ayr.

William was awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery at Sebastapol in the Crimean War. On 14 June 2007 a placque was unveiled in Maybole to commemorate this event.

Children of Sir William James Montgomery Cunningham and Elizabeth Hartopp were as follows:

In 1871 Jessie A. Irby was a widow living on income from dividends at Putney Dale Rockhampton Ville, Putney, Surrey with her daughters Charlotte and Cecilia, sister Eleanor M. Cunningham, and 3 servants.

Children of Jessie Augusta Montgomery Cunningham and Augustus Anthony Frederick Irby were as follows:

Maximiliano was a famous architect and designed important buildings of the period in Lima, including the Central Main Post Office. He lived in Lima.

Maximiliano was buried in Cuartel San Rafael 92-C in the Presbitero Maestro Cemetery in Lima.

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