William Rigg, of Athernie

- Bef 1693

• Name	William Rigg
  Suffix	of Athernie
  Gender	Male
  Died	Bef 1693
  Person ID	I4674	Clan current

  
  

  Father	Thomas Rigg, of Athernie,   d. Bef 1659
  Mother	Margaret Monypenny,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F518	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Unknown,   d. 1685, At Sea
  Children	1. William Rigg,   d. 1685, At Sea   2. Euphan Rigg,   d. 1685, At Sea
  Last Modified	24 Aug 2015
  Family ID	F645	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  William Rigg of Athernie, the brother of Lady Cavers, had by his wife a son, William, and a daughter, Euphan, who, with their mother, both died at sea in going out to East New Jersey in America, with Mr. George Scot of Pitlochie, in 1685. In that disastrous voyage about seventy died by a malignant fever which broke out in the vessel, and the names of Lady Athernie, her daughter Euphan, and her son William, appear in a list of those who thus perished. In the Commissary Records of Edinburgh, 24th November, 1693, there is registered, “The testament dative and inventar of the debts pertaining to umquhill William and Euphan Rigg, lawful children to the deceased William Rigg of Althernie, sometime residenters in Edinburgh, who deceased at sea in a voyage to East Jersey in the month of ---- 168[5] years, faithfully made and given up by William and Sarah Rigg, lawful children to the deceased Mr. Walter Rigg at Athelstaneford, and Patrick Hepburn, writer in Edinburgh, husband to the said Sarah, for his interest, Walter, Alexander, and Catharine Rigg, lawful children to the deceased James Rigg, merchant burgess of Edinburgh, only executors datives, decerned as nearest of kin to the said defuncts, by decreet of the Commissars of Edinburgh, as the same of the date the 3d day of May, 1693, in itself at more length bears.” Lady Cavers’ sister, the wife of Mr. George Scot of Pitlochie, also died by the fever on the same voyage. (http://www.electricscotland.com/history/ladies/ladies15.pdf)