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THE WEDDEUBURX BOOK.
Introd. turned into almost anything, I have not followed up as clues these forms,
which, though they may be corruptions, may also he quite other names.i
One of them, however— that of Wodeburn— is interesting, both because
it is closely akin to the common form of Uie name and
because we find it in use in the
f°flr^n?e3iu
counties of Berwick and
England. Northumberland. Thus, we find William de Wodeburn, parson
1296-1434. of the cluirch of Mynetowe vie. Rokeby, named among
various abbots and ecclesiastics to whom their lands are
ordered to be restored, in a list dated at Berwick 2 Sept. 1296 (S.P. 2) So
again in the next century, 1.324-25, we find John de I'lsle (de Insula de) of
Wodeburn returned as member of Parliament for Northumberland {ib. 3).
And sotne years later we find the name of Wodeburn, Wodeborn, or Wodebourne
in the South of^ England. Thus, John of Wodeburn, apparently in London,
is named in 1381 as attorney for Nicholas Wytty, then captive in the
hands of the Scots (ib. 4), and a Richard Wodeborn or Wodebourne also in
London, is mentioned in 143.3-34 (lb. .5-6). In the next century (1547)
we first find the name of Wedderburn in the south country (ib. 7), just
after the time when it is known that a member of the Dundee house
accused of heresy, had taken refuge in England (see post, p. 15).
I shall deal, in another part of this introduction
spread of the name
_
into different parts of Scotland,
(post, part
and into England,
vi.) with the
with
a trace of it in Ireland, and with those who bear it abroad. Bui in regard
to its origin, it should be noted here that while find its we earliest mention
ill connection with the lands of Wedderburn, co. Berwick, the name also
appears as a place-name in co. Aberdeen. In the Retours of the Services of
Heirs (R.H. 1-7) for that county, we find mentioned the lands
wldde°rtlm.
°^ Kynmundie, Mylnehill, Durie, Brumehill and Wedderburn.
CO. Aberdeen. Of these, the last was divided into three parts, one of which
descended, 1600-48, in the fauuly of the Gordons of Petlwy,
Cluny, and Lesmoir, while a second belonged in 1670 to the Andersons of
Camalegie, and the third pa.ssed, 1652-9.3, ivom Robert Bisset of Le.s.sendrum
to his son Alexander and from him to his son Robert, with whose
descendants it yet remains. Wedderburn, in co. Aberdeen, is now a small
farm near Insch, belonging to Captain Bisset of Le.ssendrum, who was