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PART I.
Chapter ly.
Robert AVedderburn (m. Janet Froster) and his family, other than nrs son Robert,
PROGENITOR OF THE FAMILY OF KiNGENNIE (^dEE PaRT II.).
With an account of the deicendants of tiro of their sons : (i) Jumes Wedderhurn (m,. Janet
Logan); (ii) A/ejnnder Weddi'ilmin, elder (in. Isnhell A ndi rson ). father oj Richard
Wedderhurn of EUiijnor in Denmark, and Patrick We'hlerhurn uj Dundee. (See
tabular pedi'jrees at fp. C9 and S2j.
PartL Robert Wedderhurn [1460 ?— 1518 ?].i Here wc arc once more confronted with a
Chap. IV. peiTson, nndoulitudly of tlie Dundee family, wlicse parentage, however, we are unable to
ascertain. He was born probably about l-tGO, as his second son Robert must liave been boru
60OU afterl490(see post p. 93). Froml-192— 1513 we find a Robert Wedderbnni repeatedly
actinias a witness to ditt'eront deeds, e.'i., 16 April 1492 (.Melville House Papei-s)'- ; 8 July
1497 (D.C. 1); 8 March 1502 ;G.S.R. 1 1); 28 Sept. 150G (S.W. 3); 17 March l.=>08 (D.C. 3);
]3 Feb. 1510 {ih. 4), and 14 April 1513 {ih. 6). In the firet of these he is designed " bailie
Dundee," and he is nauicd as holding a court in that capacity at Dundee 30 June 1513
(D.C. 7). The date of his death is not precisely ascertained ; he was living in 1509(S.\V. 4),
but there is a resignation of 31 Jan. 1518. tc his wife, in which he is not named, so that he
may have been dead at that date (s.W. 6). He was certainly dead before 25 Sept. 1520,
when the lands of the heir of the deceased Robert Wedderhurn in North i^Iaiketgait are
referred to as a boundary (D.C. 11), while the land of the late Robert Wedderbtmi is also
mentioned as bounding some Welgait land 8 Sept. 1521 (D.P.R. 5), 6 Oct., 24 Nov. 1524
{ih. 8, 10), and also, 24, 25 Nov. 1528, as bounding a South Murraygait property (ib. 30 b).
He is often mentioned in references to his son .lames, who is constantly distinguished fiom
his namesakes as the " son of Robert," e/j., 21 June 1529 {ih. 32).^
He married, probably about 1485, Janet Proster. dauu'hter of David Froster in
Methven, who is first named 8 Feb. 1509, when her husband settled a North ihu-ravtrait
land ou himself and her in conjunct fee, and on the survivor of them (S.W. 4). She is
also mentioned in the resignation of 1516 (S.W. 6), when Mr. George Feme resigns in her
favour all his lands in Aberbotliry in the barony of Alith, co. Perth. • She is named as
Robert Wedderburn's relict in a notarial instrument, dated 8 Oct. 1530, which narrates the
settlement by her of her North Murraygait land on her son James Wedderhurn, and his son
Robert (S.W. 8), and was living 28 Feb. 1531 when some lands '• occupied by Janet Froster
relict of Robert Wedderhurn, are granted by James Scrymgeour, constable of Dundee to
George Rolloks " (S.SR. 18).
By her, the date of whose death is not ascertained, Robert Wedderhurn had issue
five sous and one dan;:liter:
1. James Wedderburn, constantly called " Robertis soue " or "son and heir of the
late Robert" in the Dundee Records, ic. See post, pp. 69-71.
2. Robert Wedderburn,'^ called " brother of James, son and heir of Robert " (S.W.
11); progenitor of the Wedderburns of Kingennie, Easter Powrie, and that ilk •
Blackness, Balindean, and Gosford. See post, Part II.
' Synop&is of Kefereiices :—S.W. 3. 4. 6, 8, 11, 669 ; D.C. 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 11 ; D.P.B. 5, 8, 10, 306, 32
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107Ac ; G.S.R. 11, 18, and .MelciUe House Papers. '
* Notarial instrument by wliioh Doruthy Tulloch, wife of AValter Woof] of Bonnytoun, renounces certain
rights in favour of David Oyilvy of Incluuartin. in the presence of Thomas Seres and Kobert Wedderburn,
bailies of Dundee (cited in The ^cotUah Antiquary, vol. vi., p. 2"J-25).
' See also S.W. 660, J.W. 103, where in .in inventory of about 1783 a document (1528) naming James, sou
and heir of Kobert Wedderburn, is mentioned, but is not now forthcoming ; and see D.l'.H. 107 A c.
* The " free lands of Al'irbotlirie " which were long in the family of James Wedderburn and Janet Forrester
(daughter of David Forrester in Neva) must be distinct from these. See ante. pp. 23, S.^i, 26. 28.
' The grautee-s are George Rolluk and Margaret Wedderburn, his wife. See post, Chap, v. Margaret
W edderbuni.
* Of these James Wedderburn was no doubt the eldest, but the priority of the younger sons is not quite clear.
The order followed here is that of their admission as burgesses of Dundee;—1514, James; 1516,
Robert ; 1523, David, son of (the late ?) Robert ; 1527, Alexander, son of the late Jiobert ; and on
the same day George, " by the liberty of his father," whose name is not given. Further, as the male
line of James soon became extinct. ai:d a.s, iu 1647, we find Robert's great-great grandson, Kingennie,
• ~ - addressed by a member of the family as "primme of our neam " (ante p. 33), we may uke it that
the Kobert was the second son.