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Have you been on to this site? Unfortunately you have to pay $8 for a month's subscription to view records but there was a David Mctaggart who was a plantation owner in St Anns in 1840. There are earlier records for McTaggarts but I can't access them.

http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/index.htm

Hi Pittsy

Do you have access to Ancestry? If so you can check Slave Registers, which have owners names.

I have found a David McTaggart who has a daughter Isabella Ann McTaggart. The listing is on a slave register dated 1826 in the parish of St Ann in Jamaica.

Another McTaggart listed is James White McTaggart in the parish of St Thomas.

Regards

Catherine

A tree on another site has Isabella as:
ISABELLA CAMPBELL MCTAGGART, born 6/11/1824 Jamaica.
Unfortunately no parents names given but having the middle name of Campbell might help to find her.
Thing is though if she was born 1824 then she would only be 14 when she married John Rigg.
The name Campbell may have been her mother's maiden name, worth a try anyway. Also her parents may have used the scottish naming pattern, so if their first daughter was called Grace, then perhaps Isabella's mother's name was Grace.

Kath

Done thanks

Yes you can do it now, just go to your 1st query click on the edit sign, you can then change your heading to include Scotland.

Sorry I am new - is it Ok to do that now ?

Verification - most I found at the library in the Digger Pioneer Index 1836-1888. Also another family member checked a lot of the entries for me also but of course as I have found out - family letters, word of mouth etc. are not always correct. Vic BDM's are expensive and I have spent a fortune on these over the years but now retired I have to watch the pennies.

Thankyou very much for your assistance.

They certainly had big families years ago. Did you verify the information that you were given? Quite often things were mixed up between members of the family, (it happened in my family).

I cannot find a death in Victoria, or any children born to Herbert & Mary.

I have had a quick look, but have only found 4 deaths in Victoria. Did some die interestate?

Just a thought, edit your heading to also include Scotland

If you get the details that you require, please do not delete this thread, as there might be other people who are looking for the same person, and could contact you with further information. It also saves researchers duplicating the same information.

Yes it must be and there is some confusion over the name. The letter writer has since passed away but she was very helpful. Isabella's daughter had a child out of wedlock before she married William Haberecht so now I have found another child to the original Isabella - that now makes 9. My father comes from 16 and I from 7 - we definitely helped populate australia.

Could this be Isabella and her son

Surname: Rigg
Name: Joseph William
Event: Birth
Fathers Name: Not stated????????
Mothers Name: Isabella Rigg
Birthplace: Wallan
Yr: 1867
Reg No: 25205

I think I have been given incorrect information as you have John as the father. The family letter I have received from a very elderly family member has the details from has the father of Herbert Thomas as being the daughter of Isabella born 1845 prior to her marriage to a Haberecht but this looks incorrect and either the birth certificate is false or it was the last born of Isabella and John Rigg. I think you have found something here.

Thankyou

?? sister

Herbert Thomas born to parents John Rigg & Isabella McTaggart and he was born at Donnybrook, not related?

It will be still very early in the morning in the United Kingdom, wait a few hours for a reply.

pittsy,

????????do you have this birth of a younger brother to Henry Alfred

Surname: Rigg
Name: Herbert Thomas
Event: Birth
Fathers Name: John
Mothers Name: Isabella McTaggart
Birthplace: Banvale
Yr: 1861
Reg No: 13067

Surname: Rigg
Name: Herbert Thomas birthplace Donnybrook
Event: Birth
Spouses Surname: McNie
Spouses Name: Mary
Yr: 1888
Reg No: 4171

Can anyone help with Isabella McTaggarts parents. Her Death Certificate says Father Mac Taggart Planter (in other words a slave owner).

The only proof of birthplace is on her death cert and it states born Jamaica father Mac Taggart a Planter. The family was from Scotland and Isabella returned to Kirkcudbright for her wedding to John Rigg 10/4/1838. I have this entry. The family then travelled to Australia and I am a direct descendant from their last child Henry Alfred Rigg born 31/3/1859 Donnybrook Melbourne. I would like to find out more about Isabella. I have traced John Rigg back 3 generations in Scotland but cannot find anything more about Isabella.

Appreciate any assistance.