This surname is derived from the name of an ancestor. 'the son of Doig' or 'Doidge.' These surnames, familiar to Lancashire and Yorkshire, are not to be confounded with Dodge and Dodgson. I saw Doidge over a shop window in Blackpool on November 17, 1887.

Ricardas Doegeson, 1379: Poll Tax of Yorkshire.

Eltenora Doegeson, 1379: ibid.

Alicia Doege-wyf, 1379: ibid.

Willelmus Doegeson, 1379: ibid.

Johannes Doegeman (i.e. the servant of Doege), 1379: ibid.

Ricardas Doeggson, 1379: ibid.

1755. Married — John Macfarquhar and Mana Doig: St. George, Hanover Square.

1771. — John Doidge and Elizabeth Parent: ibid.

"Dog, Dogg, Doig, the surname of several landed families in the Kilmadok district, is for Gille Dog, 'St. Cadoc's servant.'""From Doc, Dog, Dogg, Doge, Doig, now Doig, Doag, Doak, a surname which appears often on record, almost always in the neighbourhood of. places in which Cadoc was commemorated. Alexander Dog was canon of Inchmahome in Menteith in 1491, when he resigned his lands of Auchounbannow to his brother James. In 1532 James Dog of Dunrobin, in Menteith, got the lands of Severie in the parish of Kilmadok. In 1608 we find James Dog of Ballingrew, a place in Menteith. Alexander Graham, of Douchray, writing in 1724, mentions 'Dog of Ballingrew, a family now extinct.' John Dog of Gartincaber, in Menteith, appears in 1583; in 1608 James Dog is styled of Gartincaber. Alexander Dog of Murdestoun, in Menteith, appears in 1559: the family is often mentioned later. In 1620 there is John Dog in Ballindornick in Menteith. In 1615 Mareona Dog is wife of David Mushet of Calyiechatt, in Kilmadock parish. Thomas Dog was in Cratgmackerrane, near Perth, in 1645. In 1583 John Dog was servitor of the earl of Gowrie. The following are connected with Forfarshire. In 1500 John Dog was in Wester Lowrie. William Dog, burgess of Dundee and a landed man besides, appears from 1492 to 1513. In 1643 Robert Dog was in Lumlathin. David Dogg or Doig was messenger in Forfar, 1653 to 1667" (Prof. Watson, Scottish Gaelic studies, II, p. 10, 11). All the foregoing references, says Prof. Watson, are from RMS. Mr. Alexander Doge was vicar of Dunnychtyne (now Dunnichen) in 1372 (REB., I, 20), and about 1449—50 another Alexander Dog or Doge, probably a descendant, was vicar of the same place (ibid., I, 130; II, 77). Patrick Dog of Kranne in record in the forest of Platane, 1472, and Walter Dog was tenant of Kyncrech, 1478 (Cupar-Angus, I, p. 161,213). James Dog was exempted from process while in French service, 1552 (RPC., VIII, p. 136). There was a burgess family of Doigs in Brechin who held property there in the early part of the sixteenth century (REB.), and some were chief magistrates of the town between 1700 and 1741. William Dog was admitted burgess of Aberdeen in 1457 (NSCM., I, p. 16), Johon Dog, who was burgess of Dundee in 1490 (RAA., II, 326), may be John Dog who appears as witness at Cortachy in 1491 (Laing, 379). James Dog is celebrated by the poet Dunbar as "The Wardraipper of Venus boure." Johnne Dog in Scottistoun and Janies Dog his son, were followers of Campbell of Lundy in 1529 (RSS., II, 59), and John Doge witnessed an infeftment of lands of Qwchtyreleth in 1533 Bamff, p. 61), Thomas Dog leased part of the lands of Craigmakerane in 1585 (Scon, p. 227), and a later Thomas Doig of the same lands is recorded in 1644 (Inquis., 2983). James Dog, feeir of Dunrobin, was a witness at the Doune of Menteith in 1606 (Coll., p. 132), Janet Doog is recorded in Edinburgh in 1647 (Edinb. Marr.), John Dock, smith, was burgess of Air, 1654 (Retours, Ayr, 464), and Robert Dook, glessenwright (glazier) in Irvine, 1681 (Irvine, II, p. 297). Dr. David Doig (1719—1800), rector of Stirling Grammar School, whom Bums met on his Highland tour, contributed articles on Oriental and Classical subjects to the Encyclopasdia Britannica.

A Northern form of Dodge 1, q.v. [Cp. North, doited for doted]

The name of Doidge, which still has its principal home in Tavistock and its neighbourhood, has long been connected with that town. Two churchwardens of Tavistock, in 1670 and 1671, bore this name. In 1705, Richard Doidge, gent., resided at Whitchurch, near this town; and Thomas Doidge was a gentleman of Tavistock in 1733 (W. T.). Doidge is the name of an old gentle family of Milton Abbot, dating back to times before the 16th century, and still represented (W. D.).