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116 THE WEDDEUBUUX BOOK.
Chap'iv
''^^''"'^ '^f KiiiKeniiio, wliich is rgiioimccd by his mother, Helen Ruinsav (S.W. 177-7S).
Magdalen's tocher wus 0, 100 luerks of which 5,50 J \vu-! given bv her niateVnal "randfather
who gets a discharge therefor 2:5 Jnly 1G13 (S.W. 161). By h'er, who died before ;i Feb!
1629, when she is named as deceased in a final discharge bv her hnsband to her father of
the balance of her tocher 'S.W. 238), Kinecnnie had i.ssue two sons :'—
1. Alexander Wedderbiim, third of Kingenaie, and first of Euster Powrie, who
carried on the line of the family. See below.
aud
John Wedderburn, who was admitted bnrgess of Dundee, 30 June 1C29, "by the
privilege of his father, >[r. Alexander Wedderburn. clerk of the burgh " (D.L.B.
45 1, the admission describing him as •' nauta" (mariner). He was about the same
time admitted to the gild of Dundee. 1028-29 (D G.R. 7 '. If. as I have sug^'csted,
an entry " 2 .Jan. 16:;6, Alexander Wedderburn, his good sone, the great cloth," in
the Dundee Mortcloth Dues (D.M.I). 2), refers to him, he died at the end of 1G35.-
There is no mention of any descendants of his in the Dundee Records, and it is
clear that he d.s.p. in the lifetime of his father, in the confirmation of whose will
Ale.^ander is spoken of as the only sou.
Alexander Wedderburn' [1615-S3], third of Kingennie, aud afterwards first of
Easter Powrie, only surviving son of Alexander Wedderburn and ilagdalen Scrymgeour,
was born in 1G15, as appeal's from the inscription on his tomb, which states tlu'it he \va.s
aged sixty-eight on his death in 16S3 (see below). Ife had already in his father's life got
from him, 8 .luiic 1G30, a charter of Kingennie, subject to his "father's life-rent, which
charter was confirmed him by the superior, William, Earl of Angus, on 12 June in that
year (S.W. 2-tO f, 2U-tG). He matriculated at S. Andrew's in 1631, but took no do'ree
(S.A.R. 22) and
;
in the next year, 26 July, was admitted burgess of Dundee bv'^the
privilege of his fathei-, being designed " Mr. Alexander Wedderburn youn"er " in the'entrv
of his admission (D.L.B 48). In his father's life he is termed "fiar of Kingennie," eij.,
' He has been hitherto credited by Dousl.is, J. W. and othcra with two dau^liter.s, Miujorie (ni. Ciiniegy
of Leuclilandi and Elspeth (m- Fotherin;;lianie of Parkzeat), wlio wt-re, as wo have seen (.uite iiii.
140-41\ not liis. but his father's dauL'hteis. 'I liere is no record of any daughterd of hi.s uiairiage",
but he liad a natural daughter, born jirobaljly after his wife'.s death, viz. :
Marjoiie WedJe'-burn, wlio niariied at Monifieth, 13 Nov. 1653, .lames Thomi^one {.Uonlrirth
Par. Ilcj.). The marriage contract is dited 14 Oct. Iti.'S (S W. 307) and tliere is a (H.-^cliarge of her
tocher granted by Tlu.uisoiie to lier (natural) brother Kingennie 19 April IfiBtJ (.S \V. 237 1. she died
at Monifieth, 25 Dec 16t)4 (Moniitclli I'nr. A'erj.) leaving Lssue, at any rate, two daughters, vir. :
1. MttQiialen Thnvunne, m. about May 1086, George Jack, maltman in Dundee {S.W. 478) and is .said
(li.) to have bten named iu the will of her (natural) hrother in 1683. though this does not a[ipear
from its confirmation (.S.A.T. 10) : and 2. illspct 'J /mm.viiie. m. about Dec. 16S3, William f ṡo a of
Patrick) Wall.ice in Megganes (i6. 437), who discharged Alexander, fourth of Kingennie. of her tocher
28 July 1691 ^ib. 494).
' In my note to this entry and to that of his admission, I have placed him as his father's eldest son, on the
ground that his brother Alexander was not admitted burf,ess till three years after him, 26 July 1632
(D.L B. 48). If he was eldest sou he must have been born in ]6'314, as .Me-Kander was certainly
born in 161.'). But there is a charter of 8 June 1630 by which their father settles Kingennie oil
Alexander as his eldest son (S.W. 244) which raises a difncu'ty £is to this, since from it Jolni, if the
elder, must then have been dead, while " eldest " would strictly im[ily some younger son then alive
and there is no record of any such. Further, if John was his father's eldest son. itis cnrious we 6nd
no record of any settlement on hi.m during his life, 1613 30, nor any re tour of his brother to him. The
only difficulty in the way of his being a younger son is the fact of his admission as burgess before his
brother, and, on the whole, this must not be taken as conclusive in regard to their respective ages.
If it were so taken, the only solution of the difficulty would be to place John as a natural son of his
father born before Kiut'ennie's maniage in 1612.
» Synopsis of Keferences :—S W. 240 f, 244-46, 271 72, 274-78. 2S0, 283-86. 288-90, 296-310 313-15, 310.
20. 322-28, 330-32, 336-43. 349-67. 370-94, 3!'6-97, 399-403, 406-7, 410-13, 421-23. 427-33 u. 436 440
442-43, 445-50, 453-57, 459-61, 467-69, 475-78. 491, 500-1, 504-.5, 511. 567, 635, 669 : Bh 9 {pu'siim)
10 {passim), 14, 16, 18, 25, 26, 65 ; J.W. 4 ; S.A.R. 22 ; D.C. 81, 98 ; D.L.B. 48. 54, 55 ; 1) P.B .
433 6, 437, 439, 442, 450-51, 463-65 A, 467-69. 474, 482. 484, 497, 499, 518, 525-26, 528 530-31 536.
633-40, .=^45, 570, 533, 589 ; D.B.R. 417, 422 a h, 428. 449. 454, 462. 466. 472, vol. xxxiv title 476-77,
515 ; D.CB. 61-63, 68, 70-72, 106, 108, 111, 11.3, 121, 124, 126, 123-30 ; D.D. 10, 13 '23--'4' 31 33,
106, 1 17 : D.Deo. 1, 6. 7, 10, 13, 14, 15, 17, 36 d, 92, 100 ; D.A.C.B. 8. 9 ; D.T.G. ie f; D.M D 3
13, 24 ; G.S.U 116, 129. 135, 144 ; A.P.S. 25. 40, 52 ; R.P-C. 62 « ; R.H. 12, 1.3. 40 i, ; G H S 1",
14, 20, 29, 43. 45 ; F.S. 8, 9, 17, 26. 29, 36, 37, 39, 47-50, 5-3, 63, 65, 66, 86. 117, 123 ; R.D 139 143
155, 159-61. 165, 172, 177n. 222 ;
R.A.D. 72, 77, 78, 79 n, 81, 84, 87 6, 89-90, n2a6, 9iabcdf 9o
96, 105-6, 164 : Br.T. 12, 13 ; S.A.T. 10 ; D.il. 7; D.B. 1, 3, 4, 7 11, 12, 15, 18-25, 27-28 30-32 :
Ed.B. n. 1 ; H C.R. I, ii.