Wedderburn book; a history of the Wedderburns in ... - waughfamily.ca

INTRODUCTION.
Wedderluirn, who was thus heir to both her father and her imi-Ie Walter- Introd,
She married in lGO-t-5 James Kynnaird, and went with him to Elsinoie in
Denmark, where they were living in 1616, and where they may have permanently
settled. The last reference to her is in the will of her motiier in
1620, in which hoth she and a daii^'hter of hers are named as legatees.
The male line of old David Wedderburn in .Miirraygait is thus shown to
have failed. It is clear that of his two sons onlv David had issue, and of
his two sons again the male line of William is !^hown to be extinct liy the
references to sons of his daughter as their grandfather's heirs, while that of
James is quite clearly disposed of by the retour of his grand-daughter Elizabeth
as heir to botli her father and his only brothe.-.
I have thus dealt with the descendants of three of the four original
ancestors, mentioned above (pp. xxviii.-ix.). In the accounts
d^n'S.''^''^'^ which I have given of old James Wedderburn or "of Wedderburn,"
the husband of Janet Barry, and of Walter Wedderburn in
the Welgait of Dundee, I have indicated the possibility of the e.xistence of
descendants who are no longer traceable. Thus, John, the second of the
Gude and GodLie Ballatis triumvirate, may have had descendants in
England ; Gilbert, the son of James Wedderburn and Janet Forrester, may
also have married and had children ; of the line of a brother of his,
Henry, I have not disposed; and there is actual ground for believing that
the " protomedicus in Moravia " may be still represented by a family naturalized
there. To these must be added Robert and Francis Wedderburn, named at
p. xxxiii. n, as well as several persons of the name, obviously members of the
Dundee family, whom I tind mentioned in the records but in regard to whom
I have been unable to ascertain either their parentage or whether they married
and had issue. Of these a list will be fuund in chapter v. of Part i. They
are, chiefly, Archibald and JIatthew Wedderburn, both living in Dundee in
1560, and in regard to whom I have made a suggestion at p. 491, ;ind
.Alexander Wedderburn, Vicar of Sandridge 1630-43, who may be a descendant
of the author of the Ballatis.
TV. I BOW come to the progenitor of the line of the family with whose
history this book is mainly concerned, that, namely, from
Robert which are sprung the families designed of Kingennie, Easter
1460-1518.
'
Powrie, and Wedderburn, Blackness, Balindean. and Gosford,
with their various younger branches. Robert Wedderburn, the
ancestor of this line, was bom about 14G0. I have not been able to learn
much about him. He lived in Dundee on the north side of the ilarketgait
;
was a burgess and bailie ; and is named as witnessing several documents
141)2— 1513. He died possibly before 1518, and certainly before Sept. 1520,
having married about 1485 Janet Froster, daughter of David Froster in
Methven, and by her, who survived him and was living in 1530-31, when she
made a settlement of some North Murraygait land on her son Jame.-;, had
issue five sons and a daughter, viz., James, Robert, David, Alexander, George,
and Elizabeth. Of these the last named was thrice married, («) to Alexander
Lovell ; (6) to Alexander Ogilvy, provost of Dundee ;
and (c) to Patrick Lyoun,
with whom she is often named, e..7., as getting in 1547 a gift under the Privy
Seal to her and Lyoun of the right to have all their goods imported into the
burgh free of the customs.
Of her brothers, the eldest, James, is constantly mentioned in the records,
though it is by no means easy to distinguish on every occasion
Hiseon, Jamea whether the reference is to him or to one of his contemporary
1490-1541.' namesakes. It is he, I think (and not James' son, Jame.s), who
•was admitted burgess of Dundee in 1514, and to whom we