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HENltY
WKDDERDUKN.
By his wife, Matilda Camcros, who survived him and nmrricd, secondlv, Robert Part t.
Andersonof I 'inuioo.hc h:iJi.ssue,iiKulditiontothcthr»esonsiilre;ulyiiaincd, ^"'^aptwiuiaughters:
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1. Janet Wedderburn ni, Tkotnas XirhoU, sliipinaster. Siie is naiiied "witli her
husband 13 27 Oct. 1551, wlieii .Mr. Hubert Wedderl)uni ami (iilbtrt Wedderburn,
two of her uncles, act as her procuratoi-s (D.H U. 29 l>),
and atrain on 5 Nov. in that
year, wlicn her stepfather, Itobert .\nderson, renounces for himself and his wife all
claim to the Murraygait lands of tlie lale Hem y Wedderburn in favour of Janet and
Margaret Wedderburn, iiis wife's duu'zliters {ih. .'50 1. There is a decree in her favour
and in that of her sister Margaret .'J Feb. 1552 {il>. :V.\). Her husb.uid died before
28 April, 31 Oct. 15G+, when there are resignations of North Muiraygiit and Nortii
Cowgait lands by "Thomas Nicholl, son and hsir of the late 'I'lionias Xiciioll and
Janet Wedderburn, his rehct " (h.l'.H. 116. 118). She was living 17 .March 1570
{ib. 147), but died before ItS .July 15^7 when her son is entered in an annual rent iw
her heir ('/'. 257). She is once more named 31 Oct. 15;^S, when the bailie g!o«)i, skipper. See above s. the account
of her sister. She was unmarried 22 Feb. 1552 (I'.li.R. 33), but married some
years before 26 March 1561, as she is then named with her husband and i.s
designed "daughter and one of the heirs of the late Henry Wedderburn"
(D.P.B. Ill), while on 6 Oct. 1.t62 she is mentioned as deceased, her three daughters,
Isobell, Elizabeth, and Lucy Davidsoun being cognosced her heirs (D.B K. 117).
Gilbert Wedderburn^ [1510?— 1559] son of James Wedderburn and Janet Harry,
was admitted a burgess of Dundee as " the son of James Wedderburn " in 1537 (1).L. 1!. U).
He, like his elder brothers, seems to have been of a reforming spirit, as 12 July I53.S he is
named, among others, as lately accused of heresy (R.A.I '. 7) and his lands anKi,.-«t n( llii- k—.U
of Gilbert Wedderhurn and John Pater.-on, burg^.sse3 of Dundee, U-loiiKini; to lh.|.l
becau.=>e thev were convictc