The Kings

William Ross Croft married to Elizabeth Mary Ann King. 

According to family lore both she and her daughter Agnes were fluent in French. Her parents were Richard Cargill King and Elizabeth Jane Fox.

Elizabeth Mary Ann Croft nee King

Richard Cargill King - born circa 1780 in Portland, Jamaica, died 3 Sept 1838 in St Thomas in the Vale, Jamaica. He was a captain in the Portland Militia in 1824, a vestry man in the parish of Portland and owned the properties, Mount Charles and Darley. 

King, Richard C., Mount Charles 160/4 1825 Ja Almanac Portland

King, Richard Cargill, Darley, 186/73 1817 Ja Almanac Portland

King, Richard Cargill, Darley 176/ 12 1820 Ja Almanac Portland

he married Elizabeth Jane Fox born about 1814 in Portland, Jamaica, died 28 Nov 1868 at Rose Hill, age 64 and buried at Bog Hall. They married on 6 March 1834 in Portland, Jamaica (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-13871-82814-57?cc=1827268&wc=12962333) they had two children

1. Wilmot Ross King - born 28 July 1835 at Harmony, Portland, Jamaica (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-14056-45021-11?cc=1827268&wc=12962157)

2. Elizabeth Mary Ann King - born 20 Oct 1837 at Harmony, Portland, Jamaica (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-14056-49019-95?cc=1827268&wc=12962159)

Richard was the son of Dr. John King and Elizabeth Biggs. 

Dr. John King - born about 1743 in Manchonial, Jamaica. He was a surgeon and owned plantations in Jamaica.

Lore has it that the King line in Jamaica was started by a John King who travelled to Jamaica with his brother Capt Kell King "to possess an inheritance there". They were described as being from "real old English Gentry".

They had eleven children.

1. Sarah King - born 1761 in Clarendon, Jamaica

2. Mary King - born 20 June 1762 in Vere, Clarendon, Jamaica (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-13845-18149-42?cc=1827268)

3. Sarah Smith King - born 29 March 1764 in Clarendon, Jamaica (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-13870-13802-95?cc=1827268&wc=12962132), died 6 Oct 1835 in Conneticut, USA. She married William Collins Codrington who was born in Jamaica and also died in the US in 1838.

4. Thomas King - born 1765, Jamaica

5. John King - born 18 Oct 1766 in Vere, Clarendon, Jamaica (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-14056-33227-58?cc=1827268) He was a clerk of the Court and Peace by 1796 and later an Attorny at Law in 1802. He was also a vestryman in St George from 1799. 

6. Samuel Kell King - born 2 Dec 1766 in St Thomas in the East, Mancioneal, Jamaica, died 12 Feb 1848. (baptism record https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-13871-82517-35?cc=1827268) He married Louisa Parrington Steel and owned Friendship estate and wrote on the subject of a weevil that attacks sugarcane 

"A good account of S. sacchari, as occuring in Jamaica, was written by Mr. Samuel Kell King in 1845, and is quoted by Gosse in his 'Naturalist's Sojourn in Jamaica,' p. 451 (The Sugar Cane, vol 24)

and

The attacks of this weevil on sugar cane in the colony are reffered to in the early writings of Samuel Kell King of Portland. (Economic entomology: Pamphlets, Volume 113)"

 

I believe this was Louisa Parrington King nee Steel  possibly with her  daughter

7. Isabella King - about 1768, Jamaica

8. Francis Roden King - born 1778 in St Thomas in the East, Manconeal, Jamaica, died 1814 at Baybroo, Portland, Jamaica. He owned Baybrook Estate in Portland.

9. Lucy Ann King - about 1778 in Jamaica

10. Harriet Cargill King - born about 1778 in Jamaica

11. Richard Cargill King - born about 1780 in Portland, Jamaica

Elizabeth King nee Biggs was the daughter of Samuel Biggs Esq. and Scile Smith. They were married on 8 April 1735 in Kingston, Jamaica (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-13845-16990-31?cc=1827268&wc=12962291) They had four surviving children

1. Elizabeth Biggs - born 5 April 1743 in Kingston, Jamaica, died 1818 in St George, Jamaica (baptism record https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-13845-18387-30?cc=1827268&wc=12962186)

2. Samuel Biggs - born 8 dec 1744 in Kingston, Jamaica (baptism record https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-13845-18449-57?cc=1827268&wc=12962186)

3. Thomas Biggs - born 28 Jan 1745 in Kingston Jamaica (baptism record https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-13845-18337-40?cc=1827268&wc=12962186)

4. James Biggs - born 23 May 1748 in Kingston, Jamaica (baptism record https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-13845-18337-40?cc=1827268&wc=12962186)

Samuel Biggs - born 16 Aug 1717 at Vere, Middlesex, Jamaica. (baptism record https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-13870-14188-98?cc=1827268&wc=12962132). Samuel was a merchant of Bristol and owned a Brig named Fame which traded goods for wood, iron and gold dust. He was also a landowner in Jamaica. He was the son of Thomas & Margaret Biggs. They also had a daughter named Elizabeth on 29 Feb 1715. On 22 April 1674 Thomas Biggs is recorded as trading property with John Bayles resident of Setauket who he traded property for land in Jamaica. Thomas Biggs was also involved in the slave trade "Slave bill of lading, 1718 January 30- Bill of lading and passage for one slave sold to John Powell of Boston. Sold by Thomas Biggs, of Kingston, Jamaica, the slave was shipped on the "Elizabeth""

Scile Smith - born about 1716 in Vere, Middlesex, Jamaica (baptism record https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-13870-14187-9?cc=1827268&wc=12962132) was the daughter of James & Elizabeth Smith. James Smith owned property in the Parishes of Vere and St Elizabeth.