The Cochrane & Allied Families
Cochranes from Scotland to Colonial Virginia (c 1760), to Kentucky (1811), to Kansas (1859) and beyond. Allied families to the United States from England, Scotland, Ireland and Switzerland.
RIGG, Jonathan and QUISENBERRY, Catherine Family
m. 22 Feb 1794
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RIGG, Jonathan
Birth Abt 1774 Westmoreland County, Colony of Virginia, UK 
Death 12 Jul 1834 Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, USA Burial Marriage 22 Feb 1794 [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] Westmoreland County, Virginia, USA [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] Father RIGG, Thomas | F1828 Group Sheet Mother SMOOT, Elizabeth | F1828 Group Sheet
Female
QUISENBERRY, Catherine
Birth Abt 1773 Westmoreland County, Colony of Virginia, UK Death 5 Sep 1849 Jackson, Hinds, Mississippi, USA Burial Father QUISENBURY, Nicholas | F1820 Group Sheet Mother
Female
+ RIGG, Mary
Birth 1794 Westmoreland County, Virginia, USA Death 5 Jul 1834 Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, USA Burial Spouse HAWKINS, John T. | F1401 Marriage 31 Aug 1818 Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, USA
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RIGG, Basil Quisenberry
Birth 1800 Westmoreland County, Virginia, USA Death 19 May 1833 Louisiana, USA Burial
Female
RIGG, Elizabeth
Birth 2 May 1803 Westmoreland County, Virginia, USA Death 3 Jan 1885 Burial Spouse HUMPHREYS, Hon. Charles William | F1821 Marriage 19 Oct 1826 Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, USA Spouse MAYES, Hon. Daniel | F1822 Marriage 30 May 1833 Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, USA
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RIGG, Edward George
Birth 1805 Westmoreland County, Virginia, USA Death 15 Jun 1834 Alexandria, Rapides, Louisiana, USA Burial
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+ RIGG, Alexander Moxley Sr.
Birth 9 May 1805 Westmoreland County, Virginia, USA Death 6 Jan 1887 Catawba, Pendleton, Kentucky, USA Burial New Liberty Odd Fellows Cemetery, New Liberty, Owen, Kentucky, USA Spouse COCHRAN, Lucy Ann Catharine | F97 Marriage 18 Oct 1832 Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, USA
Female
RIGG, Jane W.
Birth 1813 Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, USA Death Aft Jul 1892 Burial Spouse HUMPHREYS, Parry W. | F1826 Marriage 1850
Male
RIGG, Thomas J.
Birth 1817 Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, USA Death 1869 Burial Spouse —?—, Emilie | F1827 Marriage
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Notes Married:
- They had 11 children, 4 of whom died young, and the names of the 4 are unknown. The Mayes Family book lists the birth years of the 11 children as 1794, 1796, 1798, 1800, 1803, 1805, 1807, 1809 and 1811, without associating them with specific children. The Mayes Family book also lists the birth order of the 7 surviving children as Mary, Basil, Elizabeth, Alexander, Edward, Jane and Thomas. All of this may or maynot be correct.
"He [Jonathan] was a prosperous man, of unblemished character, of high standing in the community, revered and honored as a man of integrity, and was spoken of by all as 'honest Jonathan Rigg'. His wife [Catherine Quisenberry Rigg] was regarded as a fit helpmate for such a man. From accounts given me by my mother [Elizabeth Rigg Humphreys Mayes], and from reminiscences which I have heard her and my Aunt Jane [Jane Rigg Humphreys] indulge in, the family must have led remarkably united and happy lives. They mixed much in Lexington society. The boys were educated at Transylvania University, located at Lexington and then [it was] the great College west of the Alleghanies. The men and women were both of exceptional personal beauty. Not one ordinary looking one in the lot. They had brown eyes, florid complexions, and either black, or brown, or auburn hair."
- Edward Mayes, Genealogical Notes on a Branch of the Family of Mayes and on the Related Familes, circa 1928, p b-105 [5, 6]
Residence:
- Their home was across the road from Ashland, the home of Henry Clay. They moved to Lexington from Westmoreland County, VA.
- They had 11 children, 4 of whom died young, and the names of the 4 are unknown. The Mayes Family book lists the birth years of the 11 children as 1794, 1796, 1798, 1800, 1803, 1805, 1807, 1809 and 1811, without associating them with specific children. The Mayes Family book also lists the birth order of the 7 surviving children as Mary, Basil, Elizabeth, Alexander, Edward, Jane and Thomas. All of this may or maynot be correct.
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Sources - [S1061] Marriage Records - VA - 1785-1940 (Ancestry), ((http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=60214 : 2014)), 26 Nov 2020, accessed 26 November 2020), Jonathan Rigg and Catherine Quizenbury, 22 February 1794.
Marriage Record - Jonathan Rigg & Catherine Quizenbury - [S989] Robert K. Headley Jr., Book - Marriages of the Northern Neck of Virginia, 1649-1800 (Ancestry), (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2003.), 13 Aug 2016, p 297.
Original source: Nottingham, Stratton, 1928, The Marriage License Bondsof Westmoreland County, Virginia from 1786 to 1850, reprinted 1975, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co.
Marriage Record - Jonathan Rigg & Catherine Quisenberry - [S158] Miriam Margaret (Cochrane) Hunter, Book - Cochrane Family History, (Coshocton, Ohio: self published, April 1943.), 30 Aug 2010, Pg. 53.
- [S565] G. Glenn Clift, Book - Kentucky Obituaries, 1787-1854 (Ancestry), (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishimg Co., Inc., 1977.), 25 Jul 2014, 194.
Obit: Lexington Observer/Recorder, Lexington, KY, 13 Oct 1849.
Catharine Rigg Obit - [S998] Anderson Chenault Quisenberry, Book - Quisenberry (Rigg) Family (Ancestry), (Washington, D. C.: Hartman & Cadick, Printers, 1897.), 14 Aug 2016, p 26-28.
Book - Quisenberry Family (Rigg) - [S999] Edward Mayes, Book - Mayes (Rigg) Family (Ancestry), (Jackson, Mississippi: Hederman Bros., circa 1928.), 16 Aug 2016, p b-101 - b-113.
Book - Mayes Family (Rigg)
- [S1061] Marriage Records - VA - 1785-1940 (Ancestry), ((http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=60214 : 2014)), 26 Nov 2020, accessed 26 November 2020), Jonathan Rigg and Catherine Quizenbury, 22 February 1794.