Wedderburn book; a history of the Wedderburns in ... - waughfamily.ca

INTRODUCTION.
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Ijx.
Dundee, aud at S. Andrew's, ucder the supervision of curators, wiSd b
lutrod
Weddl?bSS.° from whose minute book we get some facts in rej^ard to liis
died 1761. early years. When he succeeded, the old manoi-place of
Wedderburn had lonor been ruinous, and David, therefore, lived not tliere,
but in Dundee, and at a place called the Bank of Kaldovan, which he
and his curators purchased in 1727 for 4G,000 inerks. Here lie afterwards
kept a pack of foxhounds, and dispensed a lively hospitality, until on s'lcceeding
later to the estate of Bullion (under the will of his relative aud
factor, David Brisbane), he sold the Bank, and proposed to build a
residence at Bullion—an intention which he never carried out. He died
unmarried at Dundee 27 June, 1761, when his only sister, Grizcll (born
1705), succeeded to nil his estates.
She, like her brother, never married, and died in 1778, after liavinT
in 176(J made an elaborate entail of the family property
j^^jj
Wedderburn of upon a series of heirs, of wtiom the first-named was her
dfe^ma"^"'
*^^^'° nearest blood-relative on her father's side, viz, Mr. David
Scrynigeour, of Hirkhill, co. Fife, grandson of her grandfather's
eldest sister, Magdalen, who had married John Scrymgeo^ir of Kirktoun in
1659 (ante, p. Ivii). The other heirs called to the successiim in order of
f)riority of line need not be here enumerated. No preference is given to male
ines, but the heir succeeding is to be always bound to take tiie name of
Wedderburn and is to use the arms of ^^'edderburn of that ilk.
1 have (post, part ii., chap, v.) given an account of the i^crymgeours of
Kirktoun. They were originally a branch of the fiunily of
ESoi^Dundee Dudhope, long important in .Scottish history. Its chiefs were
Dadho^""""
'^o'^'' constables of Dundee and here,
and two daughters, Marion (married to George Hewett) aud Jean (married to
Alexander Watson), who both had issue, and are substitutes in the entail of