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INTRODUCTION.
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a family who were for many years represented in Dundee, where they became introO.
extinct, and one member of whom settl&i in Denmark, where it may well
be th;it there is now a naturalized family of the name.
This Ale.fander, admitted a burgess in 1527, is generally termed
"elder" in the records, in order to distinguish him from his
contemporaries—Alexander, the old clerk,
wldd??bSm.
and Alex:mder of
elder, d. 1587." Pittormie. He was a prosperous merchant in Dundee, wiiere
he owned several properties in South Marketg:iit, South (Jowgait,
and in Skirling's Wynd. He lived to a considerable age, as he cannot
have been born much after 1505, and died between the end of 15S3 and
early in 1587. He had married in about 1537 Isobell Anderson, and by her,
who survived him and was living in 1591, had issue, in addition to three'
daughters,' two sons, Richard, who settled in Denmark, and Patrick, who
remarried in Dundee.
Richard Wedderbiirn, whom J.W. in his MS. memoir wrongly placed as a
brother of Kingennie's father, is, like his cousin Edward, the
bnra^'ifu^e-s ot'
"nly per.