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PART I.
CHAriER II.
Walter Wedderburn in- Dundee, and ui^i DEdCESDASrs in- Dundee and in Fife.
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ChaVlI ^" *°" ^^^^'^ We,Lhrbur,i in W^J,,a!t, father of Ale.,xmder Wedderhurn of Pittormie
burgess of Cupar. WUIiam Wcdderbum, minister at Pittenweem and in Dundee
James Kedderhurn, minister of Jfoonzie, ami his son James, also minister th're.
Alexander Wedderburn, minister at Forgan, and later at Kilmarnock, co. Ayr.
Walter Wedderburn [1 450?- 1520!]. As in the case of James Wedderburn elder
BO m that of U alter, we are unable to tix his jjarcutage. He was no doubt relate.l, perhaps as
brother, or if not so, certainly in some near degree of cousinship, to .James and his contemporaries,
but this wo cannot dettne. His son David cannot have been born later than 1 500 so
that we may Uike it that he himself was born not later than 1475, and if the William Wedd'er
bum who took his degree at .S. Andrew's in 1477 (S.A.K. I), and was probably born therefore
about 14G0, could be identified with the sou of Walter (see below), we should have to place
the birth of Walter as early as 1410. He is first named on 16 Oct. I.'i23 when David
Wedderburn, "sou of Walter," is admitted a burgess of Dundee (DLB 5) i and a-iin
mOct.-Xov. 1524, (D.P.i!. S, ]u) and 1531-.32 {U,. 36. 46) after which ho is not named
till many years later, when, 1558-59, his son David is called " son and heir of the late
Walter " [d, 85 „, 89 a, 93. 97). He may well, however, have been dead some time before
15^3, but of this ttiore is no proof. Nor has it been certainly ascertained when or whom
he married, although tlie name of liis wife is believed to have been Janet Nicholson-
(D.B.R. 19 a), and he certainly was the father of two or three sons (of whom only one
had issue), and was thus the progonitor of a branch of the family for manv vears resident
iu Fife. The priority of these sons is not known, but they were' as follows :—
1. David Wedderburn. ^