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THK "WEDDKUIJUltN BOOK.
Introd. Wedderbnrn. His eldest son, David Scrym^reour of Birkhill, thou'rii first named
in the entail, never succeeded to Wedderbnrn, as ho died, somi- years before
Grizell Wedderbnrn, the entailer. He was an advocate at the Scottish Bar and
from 1748 on was for twenty years sheriti' depute of the county of Inverness.
He died in July 1772, leavin;? by his wife, Katharine Wedderbnrn (danciiter of
Sir Alexander Wedderbnrn, fourth baronet of Blackness), whom lie had "married
in 1739, and who survived him until 179G, when she died at BirkhiU, a