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54 THE WEDDERBURN BOOK.
Ct^r!'t1 A'f ^«"^^«'- ^Ve.l.lerburn is tern.e.I •' the nov^- Klorifiwl author, that preat man of Go,l in hi. ,lav." (A copy
I.o».cs.sion. Ihere must have l«en au e.Utiou of the book before 1705 as
wTJ"'^ Margaret,-
Wemyss,
Countea/of
to wlioiu It IS iledicated, (Uedin tliat year.
1. Robert Wedderburn, served heir to his father 23 Dec. 1679 (R.H. 24). He was
living iu 1682 when ho made an assignation (R.D. 232 a) in favour of his mother,
• and John and Jean, two of her other children. The document, dated at Leith'
designs him " Mr. Robert," a prefix which, at that date, still implied either a
degree, or the ministry, or some learned qualification. Perhaps he was in the
ministry, and it is therefore that the edition of one his father's volumes of sermons
speaks of him as his father's "hopeful son " in 1682. I have no later note of him
and it is worth remark that he is not mentioned iu a subsequent assignation (1690)
by his sister Susanna iu favour of her mother, her brother John, and her sisters
(K.D. 232 //). Perhaps, as eldest son, he had some special provision, and was thus
intentionally excluded. The omission suggests that he was then dead but does not
prove it.
2. William Wedderburn, baptized at Kilmarnock 4 May 1671 {Reg. Kihn.) ; twin
his sister Jean, but died probably before his father iu whose bond of pro'visiou
to all his children he is not named (R.D. 232 a). His sister Susanna's assignation °
in 1690 also does not mention him (z4. 232 b).
8. John Wedderburn, living 7 Jan. 1691, when he, with his mother, as his curatrix,
granted a bond, dated at Edinburgh (R.D. 231). He was thus between fourteen
and twenty-one years old at that date. He is named in the assignations of both his
brother Robert and his sister Susanna (ih. 232 a b).
The daughters, named in the order in which they are mentioned (R.D. 232), were :
1. Mary Wedderburn, living 1690 (rt.). Edited a volume of her father's sermons
before 1705. (See ante p. 53.)
2. Janet Wedderburn, living 1690, but was " vallitudinary " lib.)
3. Susanna Wedderburn, living 1690 (R.D. 232).
4. Margaret Wedderburn, living 1690 {ib.)
5. Jean Wedderburn, baptized at Kilmarnock 4 May 1671, twin with her brother
\Yilliam (Reg. Kilm.), living 1690 (R.D. 232 b).
' See Lamont's Diary of Fife, :64P-n Edin. ISSO.p. 74). " 1654. June ....—Mr. Alexander Wedderburn
minister of St. Phillyns in the Presbytery of S. Andrew's, m. — Trumbull, dauglitertothe deceased
Thomas Trumbull, Esq. in the Carse. The marriage feast stood at Grange jloore in Fyfe in William
Hamilton's, hir brother-in-law's house."
' The Kilmarnock registers have been searched, 1640—1 750. but contain no Wedderburn entries other than
that of the ba])ti.=m of William and Jean, which is as follows :— " 1671. Slav 4.—M'ilHam Wedderburn
procreat betuix llr. Ale.xander Wedderburn, minister, and Helen Trumbull, and .lean Wedderburn
their daughter, both bapti.^ed by Mr. Adair." There are some Woodburn or Wodburn entries, which
cay be a corruption of the name. Thus 1731, Kov. 31.—Robert, second child to William Wodburn
merchant, in Kilmarnock, and his wife. Isobel Hamilton is baptised. The Forgan births have also
been searched to 1737, but contain no Wedderburn entries.