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D.l'.B.
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THE DAUGHTERS OF KINGENNIE. 139
on her, her sister Margaret, and their brother James (D.P.B. 365), and then again Partir.
she is not named for soiuo years, bho was twice married, (i.) soon after 1 June Chap. iii.
ICII, the date of tlie marriage contract (Bl. 23), U< WilUavi W.'JJerhwn, of
whom an account lias been already given (ante, pp. 4G -IS), and who, with her,
discharged her fatiier of her tocher of 3,000 nierks, in 1GI3 (S.W. I.'i0).i Bv him!
who died in 1616, she had two daugiitcrs, Margaret and Christian, of whom an
account will be found, ante, p. 48. She is named as William Wedderburn's relict on
several occasions, e.ij., in bonds to her, 20, 24 July 1620 (K.D. 83A) ; 12 Jul v 1621
(D C 73). and 12 Jan. 162-5 in an a.ssignation by" her father to her of .">,500"iuerks
(S.W. 215). She married (ii ) soon alter 5 March 162-"), the date of the marriage
contract (S W. 216), Mr. Geonje IhilihuvUm of Koddcrance, who, with her, discharged
her brother Alexander of her tocher of 2,.'iU0 merks (S.W. 2'J6). There is another
discharge by Haliburton to his brothcr-in law 31 .May 1627 (S W. 22^), and an
as.signation, 12 Jiuie 1629, by Macdalen to her husband of the above montioncd
bond of 1621 (DC. 73). On 17 May 1032 she and her husband, who had been
appointed a lord of session 8 Nov. 1627 in the place of the late Lord Kilsvth. got
Siisine of Lauton, in the parish of Cargill, co. Pertli (Ci.R S. 9), and verv .siion af'ter
got a great seal charter of half Strabrok, co. LinlitliL,'ow ((;.S.U iOGl Lord
J'odderanee was knighted, 14 July 1633. He is named in .March 1616 as n witness
to the baptism of the third daughter of Sir Alexander WL-dder!iurn of Blackness
(D.B. 2), Helen, who, nineteen years later in 1665, married the son of John Dickson
of Hartrie, who had succeeded Haliburton on the bench on his death mm)u after
15 March 1649. The date of Magdalene Wedderburn's deatii is not i|uiti' elear.-
Th(Te is a bond (S.W. 296 -, 31 Dee. 1646. by her daughter .Margaret We.i.UTburn,
which seems to imply her decease, b\it there is also recorded an aN>i'_'uation of 7 Jan.
16.T9by Dame Magdalene Wedderburn, relict of Sir (ieorge Haiiburliin of Fiitherance,
to Marjory Haliburton and John Ogilvy of Lownan her spou>e (U D. 162) which is
quite inconsistent with her deatli either before 1646 or at all in the lift-lime of her
second husband. By her second marriage she had issue, including the above-named
Marjory."
3. Margaret Wedderbtu-n.* She is first-named 13 Oct. 1006, in the settlement by her
father on her, her sister Magdalen, and their brother James (1). I'. B. ;i'j.')). She
reaiTied 'iUinnax Hahihnrton, eldest son of Thomas lialyliurton. dian of gild, and
later, provost of Dundee. 'J'he date of this marriage is not iiuito clear. There is
a marriage contract 2 Dec. 161:") (.S.W. 187), which seems not to iiavc been acted
on, as nearly fifteen months later, 25 Feb. 1617, there is another such contract
(ih. 192), on which sasine follows the same day (//'. 193). In both of them her tocher
is stated at 4,000 merks. In 1618, A[)ril 24, the .-pouscs ;;et ^a^inl. of the lands of
Mylne Hill and Longforginid in the barony of Lundie, co. Berth :
412\ and,
19 Jan. 1620, there is an agreement (S.W. 201) hetwecn the HahbiutonH, father
and son, and Kingcnnie, as to the investment of 12,000 merks settled on .Margarrt
under her marriage contract of 1617. This contract is aixaiu riferre hurl ^S.W.
254).* Thomas Haliburton was living 9 March 1653, when he made a di>]x»itioti
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