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THR WEDDElUiUllN BOOK.
Part I.
153^ Ins wife Janet Barry, who
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survived him .sorne
I.
ve.irs, l)ut tlio .late of whose death
IS not known,' J.unes Welderbarn hud is.suo five son^; of whom the three eldest were
remarkable amon'j; the early Scotch reformers, and at least one dau"hter :—
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1. James, see post, sect, iv, pp. 22-41. \
2. John, see post, sect, ii,
pp. 14-1.5. dl.Iprw.MxWp.wt pp. lO Ul.inly n.uue.^ the first three
3. Robert, see post, sect, iii, pp. 16 22.
"f tliene hnjlliers an,! cilU U.iliert tlie "youngest
but two
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4 Henry see below I
'""tlier," it i« t--le.ir tliat tliere were other
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7 ; nnd I
EUzabeth Weddsrburn m. RoW't Frr./u/cr."- She is named, as stated above,
S .Inly lo2/ (1) IM!. 1, ), both as her father's .lan-hter and her hn.sband's relict,
when she and her mother agree to conHrm all contracts made between the late
.lames Wedderbnrn and Andrew Ferqnhar. bnrzess of .Montrose, who was, perhaps,
her father in-law. It is possible that .she m.u-ried a .second and even a third time, ,as
there is a mention ( D.RB. 5 t) of an Klizibfth Wrdderlmrn, wife of Oi/Z.ert Blair
named 7 Nov. ly:!4, as acqnirin- part of liawmvll, co. IVrth, while nianv years
later, lb Nov. I.j62, we rea.l of an Kli/.ibeth Wedderbnrn, wife aiul, 1.3 Oct. 1503
widow of Andrew\V,inoa{[).\V\i. 119, V.Vl) with one or both of „hom thcdan-literof
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James ^\ edderburn may be identicid. l?nt these suggestions are purely speculative.^
Henry Wedderburn [1505 ?-1.k50 ?1,^ son of James Wedd.rburn and Janet Barry
His parentage is established by an entry in the f^or.l Trejusnrer's .-iccoMnts for 15:iS-;!0 recording
the receipt of " forty siiilliiigs as the com[>osition fo- the os.-hc.t of the ;h it wo.il.l have Ijeeii
interesting to fiuil a daughter of the name b