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138 THE WEDDERBUllX BOOK.
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^' ^^^^^^^^ WedderbiiTQ,! their eldest daiigliter, is first named 2t May IGOr, wlien
^' ' (;eori,'e (.Campbell of Crmiaiie or Criuan, co Korfar, discharges her fatlior of the
balance of r>,(JO'J nierks. the toclier promised l)y liiiii on the marriage of liis daughter
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Elizjibeth with Crunane's eldest sou Colin (S.W. 16J). The date of the marriage
contract is not given, but was, no doubt, shortly before her dischurtre. She thus
married (i) Colin O'luplinU., who acquired the lands of Balgirsho, co. Forfar, but did
not long survive. J.W. say.s there was no issue of the marriage, and this is probably
correct. She married, (ii) about August 1G12, Mr. Fetfr BniM, principal of S.
Leonard's College, S Andrew's.- The marri.ige contract (\\\. 24) is dated 17 Aug.
lGi2, and describes her as daughter to Kiugennie and relict of Colin Campbell of
Balgirsho. After her father's death she au. 96-98), aud Kathaiine, who ra. William Ferguson,
was hid sister and not Ids daughter ante. p|i. 120-22).
1 Synop.-is of Heferencea; S.W. lt)2, 223 ; Bl.P. 24 ; D.C. 62 ; D.P.B. 4.'?5 : H.n. 91, 104, 110, 118, 121
' I have already p. 48. n. 4) alluded to the confusion of J.W. in both his printed memoir and his .MS. &.t
to the marriages of two Bruces. both of S. Andrew's, to two Wedderburns.
' See also R. D. 110, where there is a bond to Elizabeth Bruce, relict of Dr. Peter Bruce, some time principal
of S. Leonard's College, S. Andrew's, 10 Dec. 1632.
* Douglas, followed iiy J.W. in his M.S. and jiaitly by Mr. A. H. Millar in his Purgesa Roll, etc, says that
Sir George Mackenzie leceived tlie first rudiments of his education in Kiugennie's family. If by this
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